Alice Königstetter

Alice Königstetter is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stephan Procházka. Her dissertation, Voices and Silences in Contemporary Women’s Fiction from Kuwait, explores literary representations at the intersection of language, nationality, and gender. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies. In addition, she is an affiliated PhD Researcher at the Centre Français de Recherche de la Péninsule Arabique (CEFREPA), Kuwait. Her research is funded by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science, and Research, the University of Vienna, and Literar-Mechana. Alice’s research interests include postcolonial literature, cultural production in the Arab Gulf region, and gender studies.