Alrik Daldrup

Caponeu Team Member

Alrik Daldrup is a PhD student supervised by Prof Sarah Colvin. His dissertation mostly revolves around political novelists from the past five years. Together with Dr Melina Mandelbaum, he co-convene the Cultural Production and Social Justice seminar series, which has featured several talks relevant to the CAPONEU project.

Alrik's research centres on bad feelings – such as shame, brokenness, grief, failure, or anger – understood as materialisations of the political in contemporary German literature. He argues that literary art can serve as ‘complaint’ (Sara Ahmed) against the very structures that inscribe injustice on bodies. Rather than glossing over violent histories, literature can stay with their afterlives and re-imagine both loud and quiet acts of refusal.

 

Affiliation

University of Cambridge

Memberships and honours:

Prize for Gender-Sensitive Research, University of Kiel 2023

 

Contact

Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Ave
Cambridge CB3 9DA
United Kingdom

Email: aojrd2@cam.ac.uk

 

External links

https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/alrik-daldrup