
Maria Roca Lizarazu
Literary and Cultural Studies Scholar University of Galway
Maria Roca Lizarazu is a literary and cultural studies scholar focusing on cultural memory, critical utopias, minority cultures and migration in the contemporary German-language context. She has a keen interest in creative methods and arts-based collaborations and has worked with arts and community organisations in Birmingham and Galway. At present, Maria is a postdoctoral researcher in Creative Futures at the University of Galway, exploring literary engagements with co-existence and citizenship in present-day Germany. After her PhD in German Studies at the University of Warwick, Maria held a Sylvia Naish Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (now ILCS), London and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Birmingham.