Assistant Professor

M.A.    English University of Victoria, Canada, 1998.
Ph.D.   English University of Victoria, Canada, 2005. 

Bio

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2005. Since then I have taught literature and literary theory at my alma mater, at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton and at Ruhr Universität Bochum. I joined the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University in January 2010.

Office: Dubai Academic City, (Wing C, R-L1-006)
Phone: +9714 402 1410
Email: Sandra.Wynands@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Modern Literature including Theatre, World Literature, Great Books, Popular Culture.

Research and Professional Activities

My research specialities are International Modernism, postmodernism, literary theory and Continental Philosophy. I am particularly interested in the intersection of literature and religion and have written a book about it: Iconic Sapces: The Dark Theology of Samuel Beckett’s Drama (U Notre Dame P, 2007). I am currently finishing an article on the HBO series True Blood and continue to work on my book on Modern and Byzantine Iconoclasm.