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Tara Talwar Windsor
Tara Talwar Windsor, PhD, is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Leeds. Before moving to Leeds, she was Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) in Cambridge. She specializes in modern German culture, literature and history, with particular interest in the public roles of creative intellectuals. She is a member of the Cambridge-based research group ‘Cultural Production and Social Justice’, led by Sarah Colvin, Charlotte Woodford and Miriam Schwarz.
Tara is a member of the Cambridge CAPONEU team and has co-organized events relating to the work package “Travelling Knowledge: Global Epistemologies and the Political Novel in Europe”, including the workshop “The Political Novel in Reading Groups”, the related public engagement event “What’s Novel about a Novel? Storytelling and Travelling Knowledge”, and the performance event “In Other Wor(l)ds: Travelling through Translation”. She is a founding co-general editor of the yearbook and book series Politics & Fiction and is working on a monograph under the working title Kaleidoscopic Memory & Epistemic Diversity in Contemporary Germany: Critical Intellectuals and the Politics of History.
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Books & special issues
Sara Jones, Tara Talwar Windsor & Betiel Wasihun, Knowledge of the Stasi in the East German Literary Sphere Surveillance, Secrecy, and Revelation (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2026).
Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz & Tara Talwar Windsor (eds.), Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions, co-edited with & (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2024).
Sarah Colvin & Tara Talwar Windsor (eds.) Sharon Dodua Otoo – Literature, Politics, Possibility, German Life & Letters, 77:1 (2024).
Catherine Smale & Tara Talwar Windsor (eds.) Aftermath: German Culture in the Wake of World War I, Oxford German Studies, 49:4 (2020).
Memberships and honours:
Member of:
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Association of German Studies in Great Britain & Ireland
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Women in German Studies in Great Britain & Ireland
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German Studies Association
Contact
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Michael Sadler Building
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Email: ttw24@cam.ac.uk
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