Dr Syamala Roberts
MA MPhil PhD
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow from 2025
My PhD, Conceptions of Hearing in German Modernist Writing, explored a range of aural experiences from the intermedial landscape of German modernism in order to propose a contemporary philosophy of hearing. I am currently preparing this research for monograph publication, alongside other work on Franz Kafka, listening and the law. I am also beginning a new project on Indo-German cultural exchange in the first half of the twentieth century.
- Fellow in German, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (from 2022 to 2025)
- BA, MPhil and PhD in Modern and Medieval Languages, Jesus College, Cambridge
- Modernism
- Modern German culture
- India and the Indian subcontinent
- ‘Seeking Attention’, forthcoming in Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, 48 (2025)
- ‘Kafka beim Zeitverschwenden. Zur Kafkaschen Hörpoetik’, in Kafkas Zeiten, ed. by Johannes Lehmann and Alexander Kling, Forschungen der Deutschen Kafka-Gesellschaft, Vol. 7 (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2022), pp. 125-144
- ‘Konturen’ and ‘Trübungen’: Der Tod in Venedig and Rilke’s ‘Dritte Elegie’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 88:2 (2019), 108-119
- Review of Franz Kafkas akustische Welten by Rüdiger Görner, in Austrian Studies 29 (2021), 169-171
- Review of Grenzgänge zum Anorganischen bei Rilke und Celan by Friederike Felicitas Günther, in Austrian Studies, 27 (2019), 269–270