Mira Shah is cultural studies and literary studies scholar based in Bern, Switzerland. She studied Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Theater Studies at the Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and received. a M.A. degree with a thesis on Travel Literature and Self-Encounters in Modernism within the Africanist Discourse in 2009, before joining the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" as a research assistant to Prof. Winfried Menninghaus.
Mira Shah was a member of the research project "The Researchers' Affects" (funded by the Volkswagen foundation) and wrote a dissertation concerned with emotions and affective rhetoric in the texts of primatologists at the University of Bern. For a more elaborate (German) description of this project see:
http://www.affekte.unibe.ch/mira_shah.html
From 2017 to 2020, she was part of the research project "Entangled Island Times" at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. There, together with her co-authors Lena Kugler and Roland Borgards, she wrote a German language study on the entanglement of nature, culture, storytelling and time on the islands of the pacific, which will be published in 2023 as "Pazifische Passagen. Ein Insularium des Großen Ozeans". For more information see https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835353077-pazifische-passagen.html.
Since 2020 Mira has been working on a cultural and literary history of the study of the Stone age, of archaeogical poiesis and its consequences for our imagination of what we as humans are and how we should be. For more information on this project see https://www.mirashah.com/projekte#h.lp4hrn5d2tg8 .
Mira Shah was a member of the research project "The Researchers' Affects" (funded by the Volkswagen foundation) and wrote a dissertation concerned with emotions and affective rhetoric in the texts of primatologists at the University of Bern. For a more elaborate (German) description of this project see:
http://www.affekte.unibe.ch/mira_shah.html
From 2017 to 2020, she was part of the research project "Entangled Island Times" at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. There, together with her co-authors Lena Kugler and Roland Borgards, she wrote a German language study on the entanglement of nature, culture, storytelling and time on the islands of the pacific, which will be published in 2023 as "Pazifische Passagen. Ein Insularium des Großen Ozeans". For more information see https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835353077-pazifische-passagen.html.
Since 2020 Mira has been working on a cultural and literary history of the study of the Stone age, of archaeogical poiesis and its consequences for our imagination of what we as humans are and how we should be. For more information on this project see https://www.mirashah.com/projekte#h.lp4hrn5d2tg8 .
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