Roca Lizarazu, Dr Maria

Academic background

Maria Roca Lizarazu joined the sub-faculty as Associate Professor in Modern German Culture in Hilary Term 2026. She is Tutorial Fellow in German at St Hugh’s and Lecturer in German at St. Anne’s. Before joining Oxford, Maria was Assistant Professor in German at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at academic institutions in Ireland and the UK, including the University of Galway, the University of Birmingham, the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the University of Warwick. She completed her PhD in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

I offer lectures, tutorials and seminars in the following areas of the Prelims and FHS German course:

• Paper IV – Prose and Poetry
• Translation from/into German (Prelims and FHS)
• Paper VIII
• Paper X – Brecht
• Paper XII – German Jewish Literature since 1945

Graduate:

I offer MSt supervision in my areas of specialism, i.e. German Jewish cultures; post-1945 memory cultures; literatures of migration; representations of race and racialised violence in contemporary German-language literature; futurisms in contemporary German literature.

Research interests

Dr. Roca Lizarazu specialises in 20th and 21st century German-language literature and culture. Her interests include German Jewish cultural production, cultural responses to (post-)migration and citizenship, and artistic engagements with right-wing violence in contemporary Germany. Across these topics, she has an overarching interest in questions of remembrance and futurity and in using creative methods to diversify and disseminate her research.