Dr. Klara-Maeve O‘Reilly
Profile
B.A. in Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies from TU Dresden. Erasmus stay at UJ Kraków (Poland). MPhil (with distinction) and subsequent PhD at Trinity College Dublin in European Studies/ Russian and Slavonic Studies. Topic of the PhD thesis was popular opinion and memory discourses on state socialist collectivisation of agriculture in the GDR and People's Poland, 1948-61 (minor corrections).
Since then she has worked as research assistant and team member at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau-Görlitz (Institute for Transformation, Social Affairs and Housing) and at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (University of Erfurt). Project leader of research/ transfer projects on Nazi forced labour in Görlitz (Meetingpoint Musik Messiaen e.V., funding by EVZ foundation) and Revolutionale (Stiftung Friedliche Revolution in Leipzig). Since 09/2025 Research Coordinator at the Research Centre Digital Communication and Media Innovation (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences).
Research Interests
- Imaginations of society and history in popular media
- Irish trade union history (esp. IWWU)
- Narratives and discourses of female* divergence (Magdalen Laundries, imaginaries of witches)