University of Hamburg
Anna Hofman is a doctoral candidate in Literary Studies/Germanistik at the University of Hamburg. She previously worked as a research associate in the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age”. Her dissertation examines visualizations of space, spatio-temporal movement, and self-positioning in light of memory in the works of Jewish third-generation poets and filmmakers, focusing on both printed book poetry and poetry film. Her project explores how spaces and physical objects function as “portals of memory” that move lyric subjects across temporal, spatial, linguistic, and cultural borders while investigating how recollection, resistance to reductive narratives, and imaginings of the future are mediated through contemporary poems and poetry films.
Across her research, Hofman is particularly interested in the intersections of space, memory, and subjectivity, engaging with scholarship in literary studies, Jewish studies, cultural memory studies, visual culture studies, and mobility studies. She considers how expressions – textual, visual, and audible – through engagements with remembrance and affect become forms of resistance and agency. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from University College London (UCL) and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Lund University. Her work is informed by transcultural perspectives, having also studied and lived in Sweden, the UK, and Germany.