Norman Saadi Nikro
University of Australia
- Research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient
- E-mail: Saadi.Norman(at)zmo.de
Short CV
Norman Saadi Nikro has Australian and Lebanese backgrounds, and since 2007 resides in Berlin, where he is a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient. He studied critical theory, and finished his doctoral studies in 1998 on art, literature and cultural production by migrants with non-English backgrounds in Australia. He has published essays in the journals Southerly, Postcolonial Text, Plurale: Zeitschrift für Denkversionen, El Shuara, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and chapters for various edited volumes, including “The Arab Australian Novel: Situating Diasporic and Multicultural Literature”, in Nouri Gana (ed) The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English: The Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture (2013). In 2007 he guest edited a volume of the journal Al Raida, at the Lebanese American University, on the theme of Arab Women Writing in English. More recently, in 2014, he edited a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Text, titled Situating Postcolonial Trauma Studies. Currently, he is finishing the draft of a book on the social life of memory and trauma in Lebanon. He teachers in the Department of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Potsdam University, where he gained his Habilitation degree in 2013.
At ZMO he is a member of the Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge group, and is undertaking research for a book on the biographical impulses in the work of Edward Said. His The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon was published in 2012 with Cambridge Scholars Publishers.