Clarissa Vierke

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Clarissa Vierke (born October 12, 1979 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German Africanist, linguist and literary scholar. Since 2014 she has held the chair for literatures in African languages ​​at the University of Bayreuth .

Scientific career

After completing a master's degree in African Studies , Ethnology and Literatures in African Languages ​​at the University of Bayreuth and the University of Leiden , Vierke completed his doctorate in African Studies with the thesis The Poem of the Palanquin. A Text Edition of the “Utendi wa Haudaji” together with a Textual Analysis Approaching the Style of the Nineteenth-Century Swahili Utendiat the University of Bayreuth. In her work she focuses on the epic Swahili poetry of the 19th century and particularly refers to poems by the master singer Fumo Liyongo. In addition to manuscripts that were created during the colonial period, Vierke also includes those that record the centuries-old Swahili traditions in Arabic script.

Since 2014 she has held the professorship for literatures in African languages.

In 2013 she was the first female Africanist to receive the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Association.

Research priorities

Her main research interests are languages ​​and communication in African languages, especially in East Africa. Much of her work is based on Swahili poetry. Instead of relying on Western analysis categories, she suggests new criteria for the processing of texts, which she develops methodically and conceptually from the respective language. She also includes the most recent language developments such as youth language and spoken word in her research.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Dunia Yao - Utopia / Dystopia in Swahili Fiction: in honor of Said AM Khamis. Cologne: Köppe, 2016. ISBN 978-3-89645-736-3
  • Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages. Ed .: Sommer, Gabriele and Clarissa Vierke, Cologne: Köppe, 2011. ISBN 978-3-89645-893-3
  • On the poetics of the Utendi: a critical edition of the nineteenth-century Swahili poem "Utendi wa Haudaji" together with a stylistic analysis. Zurich: Lit, 2011. (Dissertation, 2010, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies - BIGSAS) ISBN 978-3-643-80089-3
  • Reading Closely: Investigating Textuality in Afrophone Literatures. Ed .: Vierke, Clarissa; Veit-Wild, Flora, Research in African Literatures. Vol. 48 (2017) issue 1. ISSN 1527-2044
  • Kandagor, Mosol; Ogechi, Nathan O.; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.) Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja: kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma Luchera Shitemi. Eldoret, Kenya: Moi University Press, 2017. ISBN 9789966187963

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clarissa Vierke: Research priorities . May 2013, accessed October 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Clarissa Vierke is the new professor for literatures in African languages. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  3. ^ University of Bayreuth: Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ DFG - German Research Foundation - Dr. Clarissa Vierke - Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize Winner 2013. Accessed on October 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Vierke, Clarissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vierke, Clarisa; Vierke, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africanist, linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen