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Mag. Dr. Martina Kopf, Privatdoz.
Martina Kopf
T: +43-1-4277-43206
https://kenyan-literature.univie.ac.at/

Consultation hours: WE, 12 - 1 p.m. in my office
Department of African Studies, Campus AAKH, Hof 5.1, 1st floor

Eva Hausbacher, Lucie Antošíková, Renata Cornejo, Katja Kobolt, Helena Ulbrechtová, Martina Kopf (2025). Migrace v literatuře keňských žen. In L. Antošíková (Ed.), Ženy v (e)migraci: Posttraumatická vyprávění 20. století (pp. 114-131). Academia Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR.
Kopf, M. (2025). Thinking Ecofeminism in Africa through Genealogies of Resistance: A Reading of Wangari Maathai, Rebeka Njau, and Mary Njeri Kinyanjui. In N. Herzl (Ed.), Women Beyond the Canon: Philosophies and Feminisms (pp. 113-141). Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. https://doi.org/10.18442/hpgp-iii-2
Graneß, A., & Kopf, M. (2024). Changing the Frame: New Epistemic Frameworks and Social Transformation in African Feminist Theory. The Monist, 107(3), 279 - 293. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onae014
Kopf, M. (2024). Alexander Fyfe – Madhu Krishnan (eds.): African Literatures as World Literature. World Literature Studies, 16(1), 127-129. https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2024.16.1.11
Kopf, M., Waldburger, D., & Mboya, T. M. (Eds.) (2024). Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 10/3-4: Kenyans Abroad. Taylor & Francis.
Kopf, M., Waldburger, D., & Mboya, T. M. (2024). From 'The World as a Place' to 'Cultures of (Un)homing in a Contemporary World'. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies , 10(3-4), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2024.2411646
Kopf, M., Adeaga, T., & Tackie, L. (2024). Introduction: Decolonizing Academia through Feminism. Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 47, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.586_01
Kopf, M., Adeaga, T., & Tackie, L. (Eds.) (2024). Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies: Current Trends, Uncommon Paths: Decolonizing Academia through Feminism. Stichproben, Vienna Journal of African Studies. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.586
Kopf, M. (2022). Binyavanga Wainaina's Narrative of the IMF-Generation as Development Critique. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 34(3), 325-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2021.1976118
Kopf, M. (2022). African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 34(3), 239-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2022.2088483
Kopf, M. (Ed.) (2022). Journal of African Cultural Studies 34/3 2022: African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought. (3 ed.) Taylor & Francis.
Kopf, M., & Waldburger, D. (2020). Special Section on Literature and Literary Studies in Kenya - Preface. Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 39, 79-82. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.240_04
Kopf, M. (2020). At Home with Nairobi's Working Poor: Reading Meja Mwangi's Urban Novels. In K. Rüther, M. Barker-Ciganikova, D. Waldburger, & C.-P. Bodenstein (Eds.), The Politics of Housing in (Post)colonial Africa: Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents (pp. 98-120). de Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110601183-004
Kopf, M. (2020). Literatur in Nairobi und der Wunsch, Kenia neu zu erfinden. Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 20(39), 83-104. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.240_05
Kopf, M., & Kiguru, D. (2020). Looking at all the background behind the story: Interview with Doseline Kiguru. Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 20(39), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.240_07
Kopf, M. (2020). Review essay on “Dialogues on African Literature, Film and Theatre”. LIFT – The Journal of Literature and Performing Arts, n° 1 (2019). Eldoret: Moi University Press. Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 20(39), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.240_10
Kopf, M. (2019). Encountering Development in East African Fiction. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 54(3), 334-351. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989417707801
Kopf, M., & Graneß, A. (2019). How do we teach feminist theories today? A conversation. Feminist Review, 122(1), 158-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919847397
Kopf, M. (2019). Africa is not far from here. Global Cooperation Research: A Quarterly Magazine, 1(3), 11. https://www.gcr21.org/fileadmin/website/publications/Quarterly_Magazine/GCR21_Quarterly_Magazine_3-2019_October-ONLINE.pdf
Graneß, A., Kopf, M., & Kraus, M. (2019). Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Facultas.

Migratory imaginaries and experiences in early Anglophone Kenyan women writers: Grace Ogot, Rebeka Njau and Micere Mugo

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

1 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Migratory imaginaries and experiences in early Anglophone Kenyan literature written by women

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

26 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Reading African Ecofeminism through Rebeka Njau's The Sacred Seed

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

18 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Ökofeminismus in Kenia von Genealogien des Widerstands her denken: Wangari Maathai, Rebeka Njau und Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

13 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Afrikanische Zugänge zu Ökofeminismus in Texten kenianischer Autorinnen

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

22 Apr 2024

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Wangari Maathai und ökofeministisches Denken in Kenia

Kopf, M. (Speaker) & Adeaga, T. (Speaker)

21 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

African Literature, Feminist Theory and Development Thought: From Colonial Ideas to Decolonising Literary Discourses

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

23 Jun 2023

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Migration in der Literatur kenianischer Frauen

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

14 Mar 2023

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"Thousands of creative people": Urbanität und Ästhetik in Nairobis junger Literatur

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

21 Mar 2022

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Thinking about place in the study of African literatures

Kopf, M. (Keynote speaker)

17 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Entwicklungstheorie und -kritik im Schreiben von Binyavanga Wainaina

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

28 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Roundtable 8: Narratives of Global Cooperation

Kopf, M. (Invited speaker)

2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Style and representation in Binyavanga Wainaina's Discovering Home

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

21 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Retelling the story of development

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

13 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Kenyan writers and the discourse of development

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

6 Feb 2020

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Schwarzer Feminismus, Womanismus, Intersektionalität

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

12 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Developmentalism from a Kenyan perspective: Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

26 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

African Literatures and (Post-)Development Thought

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

15 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

From Dialogue to Polylogue: Comparing feminist thought from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East

Kopf, M. (Speaker) & Graneß, A. (Speaker)

13 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Becoming Pan-African: Transnational Thought in Binyavanga Wainaina (2011) One Day I Will Write About This Place

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

17 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Scattered Testimony: Kenyan Writers on the Genocide in Rwanda

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

4 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Stimme und Widerstand: Schwarzes feministisches Denken in den USA

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

24 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Encountering Development in Postcolonial Fiction - Introduction

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

17 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Concepts of Development in Postcolonial Kenyan Writing

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

1 Feb 2018

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Tracing Social and Economic Change through Urban Novels

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

10 Nov 2017

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Understanding the World through the Memoir

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

14 Jun 2017 → 17 Jun 2017

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Writing Entangled Histories of Development

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

25 Feb 2017

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Stories of Gifts Travelling between Africa and Europe

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

7 Nov 2016

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Who is giving, who is taking? Stories of aid floating between Africa and Europe

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

12 Jul 2016

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Kolonialismus und Entwicklung

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

8 Jun 2015

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Who is giving, who is taking? Aid and representation in African fiction and film

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

15 May 2015

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Begegnungen mit Entwicklung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

22 Apr 2015

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feminismen diskutieren

Kopf, M. (Invited speaker)

14 Oct 2013

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Entwicklung denken - zwischen postkolonialer Analyse und kolonialer Ideologie.

Kopf, M. (Invited speaker)

13 Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

A Panafrican Poetics: The Work of the West African Writer and Artist Werewere Liking.

Kopf, M. (Invited speaker)

2 Nov 2011

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

'Indeed our writers have become our truth commission'. Literatur in Zimbabwe.

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

6 Oct 2011

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Belletristische Literatur und Geschichte.

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

8 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Von Gouverneuren und Pflügen: Entwicklungsdiskurs in europäischer Kolonialliteratur und -presse 1930-1950.

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

13 Apr 2011

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Developing East Africa in the British Colonial Imagination.

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

15 Jan 2011

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Development Discourse in French Colonial Literature.

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

18 Jun 2010

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Writing and reading literatures as form of empathic witnessing - the example of the "Writing in Duty to Memory"-Project.

Kopf, M. (Contributor)

12 Jul 2007

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Literatur und Trauma

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

8 Nov 2006

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Trauma und Literatur: Das Nicht-Erzählbare erzählen - Assia Djebar und Yvonne Vera

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

8 Nov 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Trauma, Narrative and the Art of Witnessing.

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

26 Oct 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Creative writing in the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda: The project "Rwanda - Ecrire par devoir de mémoire"

Kopf, M. (Speaker)

14 Sept 2006

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Department of African Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2Q-O1-10

T: +43-1-4277-43206

martina.kopf@univie.ac.at