Team > Nina Kullrich

Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures

CV

• Master’s degree (Magister Artium) from Göttingen University with the final grade 1,02 (distinction) in 2012
  Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Indian Studies and Philosophy at Göttingen University and Universidad de Granada (Spain)
• Master thesis:  “Global Play(er)s – Representation und Deconstruction of socio-political Realities in postcolonial India in Uday Prakashs Warren Hastings ka Saand, Kamleshwars Kitne Pakistan und Raj Kamal Jhas Fireproof“
• Research assistant and lecturer at the Department for Modern German and Comparative Literature at Göttingen University (2012-2013)
• Junior fellow at Bayreuth University. Pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies on “Skin Colour Politics and Social Stratification in India” (since 2013)
• Doctoral Scholarship from the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/Green Political Foundation (since 2013)
• Fieldwork in Delhi & Affiliation at the Department for Sociology at Delhi University (DU) in India (2014)

Current Research Project

’Skin Color’ Politics and Social Stratification in India. A Discourse Analytical and Ethnographic Approach to Fairness Preference, Skin Lightening, and hegemonic Whiteness” (Working title)/PhD in Cultural Studies/ IPP „Cultural Encounters” at Bayreuth University /Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt

Selected publications

• “‘In this Country, Beauty is defined by Fairness of Skin’. Skin Colour Politics and Social Stratification in India” In: Beauty and the Norm. Debating Standardizations in Bodily Appearance. Eds. Liebelt, Claudia et al. Palgrave Studies on Globalization and Embodiment. Palgrave McMillan 2019. 245-282.
• „A bridge between the refugee movements and the feminist movements”. Interview with Bethi Ngari from Women in Exile. In:movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies. 3 (1). Contested movements to and through Europe, 04/2017, 217 – 222..
• “’the first in the history of India to perform a satyagraha‘ – The holy cow as political activist and other representations of the cow in Indian Literatures“ In: Archetypen, Artefakte. Kulturelle Repräsentation(en) von Tier(en) im intermedialen Vergleich“. Eds. Diedrich, Alena et al. Frankfurt a.M. 2013, 139-152.

Papers held

• “‘Beauty for all?’ – Skin Colour Management and Skin Bleaching Industries in Neoliberal India”. – Presentation at the International Workshop ‘’Managing Racial Capital’ at FU Berlin, June 30- July 1 2017
• “’In this country, beauty is defined by fairness of skin’. Skin Colour Politics and Social Stratification in India”. – Presentation at the International Workshop on “beauty and the norm: debating standardization in bodily appearance”. Panel 5: Skin Colour Politics: Race, Class, Modernity, 6th – 8th of April 2016 at Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth University
• “’The skin I live in – the skin to get in?’ A critical analysis of TV commercials for skin lightning products in India“ – Presentation at the interdisciplinary und international summer school “The Power of Colour” at Humboldt-University Berlin, Panel ‘Racing Colour‘ , 22nd - 26th of July 2013
• “’the first in the history of India to perform a satyagraha‘ – The holy cow as political activist and other representations of the cow in Indian Literatures“ – Presentation at the Conference „Archetypen, Artefakte. Kulturelle Repräsentation(en) von Tier(en) im intermedialen Vergleich“ at the Center for Comparative Literature, University of Göttingen, 10th – 12th Mai 2012
• “On the transfer of knowledge between India and Europe from the age of Colonialism to the era of Globalization” – Presentation at the conference “Reception of Buddhism in Germany in the early 20th Century: Interaction between the East and the West“, 20th  – 22nd of Mai 2011 at the Department for German Philology , University of Goettingen and the German Section, Department of Western Languages at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures

Research interests include Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, (Queer)Feminist Theories and Indian histories, literatures and political movements.

Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures

Nina Kullrich
PhD candidate

E-mail: nina.kullrich@uni-bayreuth.de​