Dr. Carly McLaughlin
English-language Lecturer and Internationalisation Officer at the Department of Business, Computing and Law
German versionProfile of Dr. Carly McLaughlin
I am originally from the UK. After a childhood spent moving between lots of different countries, I studied in England (Oxford and London) before moving to Germany in 2008. I have taught at universities in the UK, Sweden and Germany.
As well as teaching for the Language Centre and on the faculty’s English-language degree programmes at TH Wildau, I am also the Internationalisation Officer for the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law. In this role, I support the faculty, staff, current and prospective students in matters related to internationalisation, English-language teaching and research, and counselling international students during their time in Wildau (see below for further details and offers).
Short CV
- Born in 1980 in Liverpool (UK)
- Since 2023 at the Technische Hochschule Wildau as Lecturer for English and Internationalisation Officer in the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law
- 2008-2024: Lecturer and post-doctoral researcher in English Literary and Cultural Studies at universities in Germany (Bamberg and Potsdam) and Sweden (Högskolan Dalarna); freelance academic copyeditor and translator
- 2008: PhD in German Literature, University of London (UK)
- 2004: MA European Literature, Culture and Thought, University of London (UK)
- 2002: BA French and German, University of Oxford (UK)
TeachingOpen areaClose area
- Language courses for the language centre
- European Identities
- International Communication and Presentations
- Academic Skills
Other teaching areas: postcolonial studies; critical race and gender studies; childhood studies; refugee and forced migration studies
ResearchOpen areaClose area
I did my PhD in German literature, and between 2008 and 2024 I was a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher in Anglophone literary and cultural studies. My research area was literary and cultural representations of forced migration, with a particular focus on children. Most of my publications are concerned with the intersection between childhood and migration.
I am currently co-editing two book projects due to be published with Routledge in 2024: The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature, with Gigi Adair and Rebecca Fasselt, and Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South, with Gigi Adair.
Publications
Journal articles
- McLaughlin, Carly. "Ungrateful Girl Refugees in Lore Segal's Other People's Houses and Vesna Maric's Bluebird". Girlhood Studies 17.1 (2024): 1-17.
- "'They don't look like children': child asylum-seekers, the Dubs amendment and the politics of childhood." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44:11 (2018): 1757-73.
- "Reluctant Affinities: Rainer Maria Rilke and Richard Dehmel." Sprachkunst 37(2006): 203-20.
Book chapters
- (with Gigi Adair). "Beyond Humanitarianism: Reading Counternarratives of Forced Migration from the Global South." Narrating Flight and Asylum. Ed. Mandy Beck, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, Cecile Sandten. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022, 165-182.
- (with Claudia Schippel). "Tracing alternative frames of child mobility – a dialogue." Minor on the Move: Doing Cosmopolitanisms. Ed. Kylie Crane, Lucy Gasser, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Anna von Rath. Münster: edition assemblage, 2021. 50-66.
- "'It's all about the children': Child Asylum-Seekers and the Politics of Innocence in Australia." Postcolonial Justice. Ed. Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, Dirk Wiemann. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 295-315.
- "'Images of Ireland that matter now': Colm Tóibín in conversation." Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland. Ed. Carmen Zamorano Llena and Billy Gray. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. 73-79.
- "Childhood, Migration, and Identity in Chris Cleave's The Other Hand." Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature. Ed. by Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Julie Hansen and Carmen Zamorano Llena. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 47-67.
- "'There's no place like home': on Third Culture Kids and Existential Migration." Migration, Narration, Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Peter Leese, Carly McLaughlin, Wladyslaw Witalisz. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012. 105-20.
Book Reviews
- “Migrant Australia: From Botany Bay to Manus Island.” Anglistik. 34:1 (2023): 229 – 244.
- "Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives." Australian Historical Studies. 52:2 (2021): 310–311."
- Josef. P. Mautner: Nichts Endgültiges. Literatur und Religion in der späten Moderne." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 1 (2011): 161-63.
- "'Ian Cooper: The Near and Distant God. Poetry Idealism and Religious Thought from Hölderlin to Eliot." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 1 (2011): 166-67.
- "Visions of the Industrial Age, 1830-1914. Modernity and the Anxiety of Representation in Europe." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 1 (2011): 201-3.
- "David Ellis: Death and the Author." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 1 (2010): 202-4.
Offers for staff in the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law
Offers for Faculty professors and other academic staff
- Support in matters related to teaching in English (e.g. preparation of teaching materials; teaching observation and coaching; team-teaching)
- Coaching for academic presentations in English (conference papers etc.)
- Help with English-language research publications (research articles, grant proposals etc.)
Offers for other staff in the faculty
- Informal conversation groups
- Help creating a glossary tailored to context-specific interactions with international students
Offers for international students
- Academic writing workshop (first Tuesday of every month)
- International office hour (Mondays, 10-11 a.m., Room 100-405)
- Virtual international office hour (Fridays, 10-11 a.m., email me to arrange an appointment)
Unit:
Department of Business, Computing and Law
Teaching/field of work:
Lecturer at the Language Centre and in the English-language courses of the department and internationalisation officer of the department