Deborah Fallis studied general and comparative literature and Jewish studies at the Free University of Berlin and modern German literature at Leibniz University Hannover.

Since 2023, she has been conducting research as a doctoral candidate in the DFG-funded research project Empathy and Disturbance: Practices, Poetics, and Traditions of Literary Negotiation of Right-wing Violence in Democracy. In her dissertation, she examines literary texts on right-wing violence from a post-migrant perspective. The aim of her work is to reveal a tradition of post-migrant writing that records, produces, and conveys knowledge about right-wing violence.

As part of this dissertation, she also examines fundamental questions about German identity, belonging, community, justice, and democracy. During her stay in Wiepersdorf, she will delve deeper into and conclude her examination of the aesthetic communication of these questions.

Further research interests: literature and religion, intertextuality, exile poetry, and postcolonial literature.

Deborah Fallis is a member of the jury for the Hanover Poetry Lectureship NEUE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR (New German Literature).