Dr. Carly McLaughlin

• Language courses for the Language Centre
• European Identities & European Challenges
• Diversity in the Workplace
• Intercultural communication
• Academic Skills
   

Other teaching areas: postcolonial studies; critical race and gender studies; childhood studies; refugee and forced migration studies

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 have also co-edited two books related to migration literature, 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.