Dr Tara Talwar Windsor 

Tara Talwar Windsor is a Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL). She contributes to the Horizon Europe/UKRI-funded project entitled ‘The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe’ (CAPONEU) and co-leads the research group ‘Cultural Production and Social Justice’. She specialises in modern German culture, literature and history, with particular interest in the public roles of creative intellectuals.

From 2021-23, Tara was Schröder Research Associate in German at Cambridge with a special remit for Equality and Diversity in German Studies. Before coming to Cambridge, she was Research Fellow in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham and also held positions as Research Associate in Modern History at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) Essen, as Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University and as Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century Continental European History at Trinity College Dublin. She completed her BA (2006), MPhil (2008) and PhD (2013) at the University of Birmingham.

Tara is working towards a monograph under the working title Networks of Knowledge: Creative Writers, Postmigrant Politics & the German Public Sphere, and has recently co-edited two collections on contemporary German writing: a special issue of German Life and Letters on ‘Sharon Dodua Otoo – Literature, Politics, Possibility’, co-edited with Sarah Colvin; and a volume entitled Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions, co-edited with Selma Rezgui and Laura Marie Sturtz, published by Camden House. She has also conducted research projects and published on cultural politics in the Weimar Republic, exile writing during the Nazi era, and literary networks and the Stasi in East Germany.