Sandra Vlasta, Dr. (2008, University of Vienna), is currently a researcher at the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where she was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellow from October 2017 to March 2020. She is the author of Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English (Brill/Rodopi, 2016) and has published on multilingualism and travel writing.
Main areas of research
- travelogue and travel writing
- migration and literature
- multilingualism in literature
- cultural transfer
- intercultural literature and theory
- postcolonial literature and theory