Anna Gien

Anna Gien is a doctoral student at the University of the Arts Berlin and a visiting doctoral student at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Humboldt University Berlin.

The author of two novels, Paris Rot and M, she also contributes essays and interviews to international newspapers and cultural journals.

Her doctoral thesis advances an auto-theoretical approach to fiction theory, informed by écriture féminine, and examines traumatic narration, processes of creative becoming, and fiction as a psychological and material practice of transformation. Her research draws on Henri Bergson, Hélène Cixous, Charles Darwin, Melanie Klein, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

She founded Angel Chair, a performance collective that explores life writing, authorship, and persona as material practices.