Highlighted publications
Essa, L. (2021). Of Other Spaces and Others' Memories: Reading Graveyards in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Regina Scheer's Machandel. Comparative Literature Studies, 58(4), 744-779. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.58.4.0744
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423091/project_muse_820440.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423091/project_muse_820440.pdf?sequence=1
Essa, L. (2021, Mar 23). Die Wir-Identität: Mithu Sanyal und Asal Dardan. https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2021-03/mithu-sanyal-asal-dardan-cancel-culture-rassismus-identitaet-marginalisierte-gruppen
Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Essa, L. (Accepted/In press). Seen as friendly, seen as frightening? A Conversation on Visibilities, Kinship, and the Right Words with Mithu Sanyal. In S. Rezgui, L. M. Sturtz, & T. T. Windsor (Eds.), Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Intervention Camden House.
2023
Professional publications
Essa, L., & Schofield, B. (2023). Visibility Matters: A Conversation on the German Publishing Scene. Digital or Visual Products
Popularising publications
Essa, L. (2023). Leila Essa an Amadeo Richardson. In S. Wels (Ed.), anders bleiben: Briefe der Hoffnung in verhärteten Zeiten (pp. 133-145). Rowohlt.
2022
Scholarly publications
Essa, L. (2022). Intention & Intervention: Authorial strategies against exclusionary discourses. Web publication/site, . https://intervention.sites.uu.nl/
Popularising publications
Essa, L., El Hissy, M., Antwi-Boasiako, A., Masoumi, P., Buchberger, A., Focken, C., Eberhardt, H., Hansen, J., & Plochl, S. (2022). Das Kritikable Queertett mit Dr. Maha El Hissy, Dr. Leila Essa und Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako. Digital or Visual Products https://youtu.be/XNw3OLsP2gY
2021
Scholarly publications
Essa, L. (2021). Of Other Spaces and Others' Memories: Reading Graveyards in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Regina Scheer's Machandel. Comparative Literature Studies, 58(4), 744-779. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.58.4.0744
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423091/project_muse_820440.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423091/project_muse_820440.pdf?sequence=1
Popularising publications
Dardan, A., Essa, L., El Hissy, M., & Daub, A. (2021, Aug 24). Deutsch genug? Ein Gespräch mit Leila Essa, Maha El Hissy und Adrian Daub über aktuelle Debatten zu Germanistik, Kanon und dem Abbau des Hegemonialen. https://www.goethe.de/ins/se/de/kul/lir/edw/22317332.html
Essa, L. (2021, Mar 23). Die Wir-Identität: Mithu Sanyal und Asal Dardan. https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2021-03/mithu-sanyal-asal-dardan-cancel-culture-rassismus-identitaet-marginalisierte-gruppen
2019
Scholarly publications
Essa, L. (2019). Narrating the Nation's Fringes: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer and Amit Majmudar's Partitions. In V. Rao, S. Prakash, M. Sinha Roy, & P. Bora (Eds.), Displacement and Citizenship: Histories and Memories of Exclusion (pp. 38-53). Tulika.
Popularising publications
Essa, L. (2019, Jul 14). Mehr als nur King Lear in Indien: Wir, die wir jung sind. https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2019-05/wir-die-wir-jung-sind-petri-taneja-roman-rezension
2015
Scholarly publications
Essa, L. (2015). Partition in the Private Sphere: Family Narratives as Vehicles for the Trauma of National History in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Irina Liebmann’s Die freien Frauen. Anglia, 133(3), 489-510. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2015-0043