Maria (Mary) Saenko, Student Assistant

Mary is a Master student in English Studies, who also works part-time as a Student Assistant at Goettingen International. She fluently speaks three languages—English, Chinese, and Russian—and is currently learning German as her fourth. Previously, she had worked as an English instructor in Taiwan, where she got her Bachelor degree in Foreign Literatures at National Taiwan University.

In her role as student assistant at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute, she supports the preparation and organisation of the PhD symposium Facing Deconstruction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Identity, Transformations, and Agency.


Mary’s main research interests are:

• American cultural studies
• 20th–21st century literature
• Contemporary media studies
• Michel Foucault and discourse analysis
• Digital philosophy and AI reasoning
• Digital humanities