Andrea Wolvers, M.A.

born March 19, 1984 in Goch

  • Phone: +49-221-470-4741
  • Fax: +49-221-470-5158
  • E-mail: andrea.wolvers@yahoo.de (Andrea Wolvers)
  • Office hours: by arrangement

Tasks at the institute

  • Lecturer
  • PhD student (scholarship holder at the a.r.t.e.s. graduate school), project: the transfer of cultural conceptualizations from Africa to Jamaica from a linguistic perspective

Education

  • Oct. 2004 – Feb. 2010 study of African Studies, Linguistics, English and Ethnomusicology in Cologne and Addis Ababa

Research interests

Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Creole Languages and Language Contact, Youth Languages, Religious/Ritual Registers, Ethnomusicology, Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, Postcolonial Studies, Jamaica and the Caribbean

Research stays abroad

Kenya (2007), Ethiopia (2008), Zimbabwe (2010), Ghana (2010), Jamaica (2011-2012)

Publications

  • 2010. Sounds of Resistance: African Identity in Jamaican Music from a Postcolonial Perspective. Saarbrücken: VDM.
  • forthcoming. “Yarada K’wank’wa and Urban Youth Identity in Addis Ababa.” Ms. University of Cologne/Addis Ababa University.
  • forthcoming. “Twa Pa? Slang in Zimbabwe.” Paper presented at the KANT III conference in November 2010 at the University of Cologne.
  • forthcoming. Senft, Gunter & Ellen B. Basso. Ritual Communication. Oxford: Berg 2007. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. (book review)

Talks given

  • “Twa Pa? Slang in Zimbabwe.” KANT III (student conference) 5.-7. November 2010, University of Cologne

Teaching

  • SoSe 2010
    • „Medienforschung“
  • WiSe 2010-2011
    • „Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen“
  • SoSe 2011
    • „Sprache und Identität in Afrika“ (with Nico Nassenstein)
    • „Transkription afrikanischer Sprachen“ (with Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann)