Mariama Diallo
Mariama Diallo is exploring the translative oeuvre of the German-language poet Paul Celan and his work in translation.
PhD Candidate in Literary Translation Studies
School of Languages and Cultures
Qualifications
BA (First Class Honours) in English Literature, University of Greenwich, UK
MSc (Distinction) in Comparative Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK
Profile
Mariama Diallo is a PhD candidate in Literary Translation Studies. Their research centres on the literary potentialities enabled through poetry and translation surrounding the poetic works of Paul Celan, inspecting specifically his translative practices and their interlocution with his poetry and poetics, as well as the transformations of his work translated into other languages around the world, using a Decolonisation perspective. They received the MSc degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2021, where they investigated the poetic exile experiences of and translative poetic dialogue between Osip Mandelstam and Paul Celan.
Supervisors
Senior Lecturer in German
School of Languages and Cultures
Associate Dean, Research
Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publications
Diallo, Mariama. “Still Songs In-Between and Beyond – Reflections on the Musical Dimensions of Paul Celan’s ‘Todesfuge’ and Manfred Winkler’s ‘Und die Fiedler fiedeln’”, Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art. The Relationship Between the Vocal and the Instrumental in Different Arts. Edited by H.-W. Heister, H. Polk and B. Rusam. Springer, Heidelberg, 2023, pp. 623-642. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20109-7_39
Diallo, Mariama. “‘Passion, Salomé’: Decadent Transformations and Transgressions of Feminine Sensuality in Huysmans, Wilde, and Strauss”. Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Art, issue: Trans-, vol. 34, October 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.1.9152