Janina Schlüsselburg, M.A.

Janina Schlüsselburg is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and an associated researcher in the MeDiMi project “Dehumanizing, Victimizing, or Universalizing? How Images of Migration Interact with Human Rights Discourse”. In her PhD project, she focuses on visual representations of migration published in the German, U.S. American, and Australian media from 2015 onwards and links these representations to an international human rights discourse. Following her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in American Studies, she completed her Master of Arts (M.A.) in British and American Cultures: Texts and Media at the University of Hamburg. She wrote her master’s thesis on “Thug 4 Life. The American Gangster Culture of Hip Hop as Consumer Discourse”. Before her relocation to Sydney, she worked as a project coordinator at the Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Currently, she works as a research assistant at a Sydney-based law firm specializing in human rights, bridging research and practice. Her research interests lie in the areas of Anglophone media and cultural studies, migration studies, international relations, postcolonialism, and human rights discourse.

Contact: j.schluesselburg@unsw.edu.au