Iga Nowicz

Iga Nowicz studied German and Russian at the University of Oxford (BA, 2011), Slavonic Studies and Intercultural German Studies in Heidelberg, and European Literature at the University of Cambridge (MPhil, 2013). In 2018, she completed a Joint PhD in German Studies at King's College London and Humboldt University of Berlin, graduating summa cum laude. She has taught at universities in London, Berlin, Flensburg, and Vienna, and co-founded a Berlin-based mentoring programme for women and non-binary people in academia. Outside academia, she has worked as an editor, user experience researcher, and cultural manager.

Her interdisciplinary book project, based on her doctoral research, was awarded the Women in German Studies Book Prize in 2018 and published by Peter Lang Oxford under the title Interrupted Stories: Multilingualism in Post-Yugoslav Literature in Germany and Austria. Drawing on history, sociology, feminist theory, and trauma studies, the book argues that post-Yugoslav literature in German opens up new forms of transnational solidarity that counter the acute sense of loss and speechlessness induced by trauma.

Since April 2026, Iga has been part of the MAGnituDE project, where she examines German memory culture in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She also works as a museum educator, facilitating youth projects on German–Polish relations, memory culture, heritage, and belonging.

„Ungehörte Stimmen: Frauen in Kriegszeiten“, in: ifa-Blog, hier nach: www.ifa.de/blog/beitrag/ungehoerte-stimmen-frauen-in-kriegszeiten/ (30.09.2025)

Interrupted Stories. Multilingualism in Post-Yugoslav Literature in Germany and Austria. Oxford: Peter Lang (2024).

„Interview with Alma Hadžibeganović”, in: Austrian Studies 26 (2018), S. 245–251.

„Ich verstand, dass ich [...] in jeder Sprache dieser Welt eine Stimme hatte” – Stimme, Körper und Sprache bei Marica Bodrožić”, in: Hitzke, Diana/Finkelstein, Miriam (Hg.), Slawische Literaturen der Gegenwart als Weltliteratur. Hybride Konstellationen. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2018, S. 215–236.

„Maja Haderlap and the Peripheries of Memory”, in: The Glossa. King’s College London’s Modern Foreign Language Magazine, hier nach: theglossa.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/maja-haderlap-and-the-peripheries-of-memory/ (30.09.2025). 17.06.2017, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7208.