PhD candidate
harishnavi.sriskanthan@polight.uni-halle.de
Bachelor’s degree in English and German Studies at Leibniz University Hanover; Master’s Degree in North American Studies at Leibniz University Hanover; M.Ed. in the Teacher Training Program for Secondary Schools for English and German at Leibniz University Hanover; 2023/2024 graduate student at the Temple University in Philadelphia through a Fulbright scholarship
Research focus and interests: Early American Studies, Settler Colonial and Decolonial Studies with a focus on transgenerational and settler trauma, Gender and Women’s Studies, African American Studies and Black Feminisms, Archival Studies
Publications:
– Sriskanthan, Harishnavi: “Ghostliness and the Remnants of Slavery in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing”, in: Progress. A Graduate Journal of North American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2025, pp. 21-32
– Hille, Jessica; Lim, Jia Shen; Rennhack, Nathalie; Servet, Ahmed; Sriskanthan, Harishnavi; Tomasic, Marielle: “Various Insights into the Relationship between Love and Joy”, in: Progress. A Graduate Journal of North American Studies, vo. 1, no. 1, 2023, pp. 90-1
Project: Gendered Control and Rationality in Early American Narratives