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Award for Kirsten Behr's doctoral thesis
The Faculty of Cultural Studies at Paderborn University has awarded Kirsten Behr's doctoral thesis the Doctoral Prize for Cultural Studies 2025 (sponsored by the Brill/DeGruyter publishing group)!
Convinced that gendered representations of disasters not only document facts, but also cement inequalities, Kirsten Behr used lines of argument from feminist disaster research to analyze novels from the French-speaking Caribbean in her doctoral thesis. In her laudatory speech, Prof. Dr. Annegret Thiem (University of Paderborn) praised: "Kirsten Behr combines a broad spectrum of academic theory with a detailed corpus analysis that testifies to a profound knowledge of the subject under investigation and the relevant research. Complex issues are linked just as cleverly as sweeping judgments are avoided and the individual aspects are worked out in a highly reflective, questioning and insight-promoting manner."
The doctoral thesis was reviewed by Prof. Dr. Annegret Thiem (University of Paderborn) and Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Komorowska (University of Kassel). It was published in September 2025 under the title "Female Disasterscapes: Frauen im Naturkatastrophenroman der französischsprachigen Karibik" by DeGruyter in the Mimesis series.