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I was educated at the University of Cambridge (BA and Ph.D.) and the University of
Chicago (MA), I worked at the University
of Bristol from 1996-2000.
I joined the department in Leeds in August
2000.
Since arriving in Leeds
I have also completed an MA in Modern Jewish Studies.
Teaching
Research
My research
focuses on the relationships between politics and writing, the role of the
German intellectual in the period after 1945, and literature after 1989. I
have written on the Holocaust, its impact on post-unification Germany,
‘normalisation’ and national identity, and relationships between
Germans and Jews, as expressed in film, literature and intellectual debate.
More recently, I have become interested in German literature since the Wende, including debates on Neue
Lesbarkeit, younger authors, writing by women, modernism, and attitudes
towards the past.
Teaching Publications
·
Edition of Bernhard Schlink's Der
Vorleser for Schools and Universities, with a 25 page introduction,
notes, vocabulary and 'Fragen zum Text' (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd
2002), ISBN 1853996491
·
‘Playing with Fire: Teaching Max Frisch’s Biedermann
und die Brandstifter’, Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen, September
1998
·
‘Alice
in den Städten (Alice
in the Cities)’, in Jill Forbes and Sarah Street (eds.), European Cinema (London: Palgrave, 2000). ISBN 0333752090
·
‘Das Versprechen (The Promise)’, in
Jill Forbes and Sarah Street
(eds.), European
Cinema, (London:
Palgrave, 2000). ISBN 0333752090
·
'The Morality of Loving a Concentration Camp Guard.
Teaching Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser', Deutsch:
Lehren und Lernen, 25 (Spring 2002), 3-8
Research Publications
Book
Journal
Articles
- ‘Martin Walser’s Die Gallistl’sche
Krankheit: Self-Reflexivity as Illness’, German Life and Letters, 49:3 (1996), 358-372.
- ‘Martin Walser’s Halbzeit: Stylizing Private History for Public
Consumption’, The
Modern Language Review, 92:4 (1997), 912-923
- ‘Feigning the Anaesthetization of
Literary Inventiveness:
Günter Grass’s örtlich betäubt and the Public
Responsibility of the Politically Engaged Author’, Forum for
Modern Language Studies, 34:1 (1997), 69-81
- ‘Authenticity and Nostalgia: Edgar
Reitz’s Heimat as
Tourism and Folk
Museum’, New
German Studies (1997)
- ‘"sowas läuft nur im Dritten
Programm": Winning Over the Audience for Political Engagement in
Günter Grass’s Kopfgeburten oder Die Deutschen sterben aus’,
Monatshefte,
91:1 (1999), 84-100.
- ‘"Wie schön wäre Deutschland, wenn
man sich noch als Deutscher fühlen und mit Stolz als Deutscher fühlen
könnte": Martin Walser’s Reception of Victor
Klemperer’s Tagebücher 1933-1945 in Das Prinzip Genauigkeit
and Die Verteidigung der Kindheit’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, 73:4 (1999), 710-732
- ‘A Manifesto For
Germany’s ‘New Right’? — Martin Walser, The Past,
Transcendence, Aesthetics, And Ein
Springender Brunnen’, German Life and Letters,
53:1 (2000), 126-141
- ‘The Writer’s Fascination with Power: Stefan Heym’s Der König
David Bericht’, Neophilologus, 84 (2000), 271-283.
- ‘"Die Uniformen kannte er nur aus
Filmen": The influence of popular fiction and film on western
images of the GDR in Uwe Johnson’s Das Dritte Buch über Achim’,
Internationales Forum für Uwe Johnson-Studien, Band 8
(2000), 9-25. ISBN 0938-1074
- ‘The Final Taboo?: Philosemitism, the Meinungsindustrie, and the New
Right in Martin Walser’s Ohne Einander’, Seminar,
37:2 (2001), 154-166
- ‘Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Der
Verlorene and the
Problem of German Wartime Suffering’, The Modern Language Review,
97:1 (2002), 123-134
- 'A
New Modernism of "Neue Lesbarkeit"? — Hybridity in Georg Klein's Libidissi',
German Life
and Letters, 55:2 (2002),
137-148
- 'Introduction' to special edition
of German Life and Letters on
'Emerging German Writers', with Frank Finlay, 55:2, 131-136
- ‘“Normalization”
and the New Consensus on the Nazi Past: Günter Grass’s Im
Krebsgang and the “Problem” of German Wartime
Suffering’, Oxford
German Studies, 31 (2002), 161-186
- ‘Nichts läßt man uns, nicht einmal den
Schmerz, und eines Tages wird alles vergessen sein’: The Novels of
Arnold Stadler from Ich war einmal to Ein hinreissender
Schrotthändler', Neophilologus,
87:1 (2003), 119-132
- 'German Nostalgia? Remembering German-Jewish
Life in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz', The Germanic Review, 79:3
(2004), 181-202
Chapters
in Books
- ‘Fictional Reflections on the Gruppe 47 in Martin
Walser’s Kristlein Trilogy’, The Gruppe 47 Fifty Years
on. A Reappraisal of its Literary and Political Significance, German
Monitor, Stuart Parkes and J.J White (eds.) (Amsterdam: Rodopi,
1999), 139-157
- ‘Preface’, with Clare Flanagan,
in: 1949/1989: Cultural
Perspectives in East and West, German Monitor, Stuart Taberner and Clare Flanagan (eds.)
(Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000), i-vi. ISBN 90-420-1472-5
- ‘"ob es sich bei diesem Experiment
um eine gescheiterte Utopie oder um ein Verbrechen gehandelt hat":
Enlightenment, Utopia, the GDR and National Socialism in Monika
Maron’s Work From Flugasche to Pawels Briefe’,
in: Carol Costabile-Heming, Rachel Halverson, Kristie Foell (eds.), Textual
Responses to German Unification (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Verlag, 2001), 35-57. ISBN 3-11-071022-1
- ‘"Die Deutsche Geschichte darf
auch einmal gutgehen": Martin Walser, Auschwitz, and the
"German Question" from Ehen in Philippsburg to Ein
Springender Brunnen’, in: Helmut Schmitz (ed.), The Future
of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2001), 45-64. ISBN 0-7546-0112-9
- 'Introduction', in: Stuart Taberner and Frank
Finlay (eds.), Recasting
German Identity (Rochester: Camden House,
2002), 1-15. ISBN 1-57113-244-9
- ‘A Matter of Perspective?: Martin Walser’s Fiction in the 1990s’,
in: East and West
German Responses to Unification, Martin Kane (ed.) (Bern: Peter Lang,
2002), 149-165. ISBN 3-906769-70-4
·
‘"Wie kannst du mich lieben?": "Normalising" the
Relationship between Germans and Jews in the 1990s’ Films Aimée und Jaguar
and Meschugge', in: William
Niven and James Jordan (eds.), Politics and Culture in
Twentieth-Century Germany (Rochester: Camden House, 2003), 227-244.
ISBN 1-57113-223-6
·
'"sehnsüchtig-traurig und
unerlöst": Memory's Longing to Forget. Or Why Tristanakkord is Not Simply A Reprise of Martin Walser', in: David Basker (ed.), Hans-Ulrich Treichel (Cardiff: University
of Wales Press, 2004),
79-93. ISBN 0-7083-1716
·
'The German Province
in the Age of Globalisation - Botho Strauss, Arnold
Stadler and Hans-Ulrich Treichel', German Literature in the
Age of Globalisation (Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2004), 89-110. ISBN
1-9024459-51-2
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'Introduction',
in: German
Literature in the Age of Globalisation (Birmingham:
Birmingham University Press, 2004), 1-24. ISBN
1-9024459-51-2
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'The Triumph
of Subjectivity: Martin Walser’s Novels of the 1990s and his Der
Lebenslauf der Liebe (2001)', in: Stuart Taberner (ed.) Stuart Parkes and
Fritz Wefelmeyer (eds.), Martin Walser, German Monitor, forthcoming
2005
Edited
- with
Clare Flanagan, 1949/1989: Cultural Perspectives in East and
West, German Monitor (Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA:
Rodopi, 2000). ISBN 90-420-1472-5
- with
Frank Finlay, Recasting
German Identity (Rochester: Camden
House, 2002). ISBN 1-57113-244-9
- with Frank Finlay, special edition of German
Life and Letters on
'Emerging German Writers', April 2002
- German Literature
in the Age of Globalisation
(Birmingham: Birmingham University
Press, 2004). ISBN 1-9024459-51-2
Reviews
The Modern Language Review
The Journal for European Studies
Studies in Twentieth Century Literature
Recent Papers
- 'Martin Walser and the Gruppe 47', Institute of
Germanic Studies , 1997
- 'Martin Walser: ‘Das Ende der Vergangenheitsbewältigung’,
Warwick, 1998
- 'Martin Walser in the 1990s’, Sydney, 1999
- ‘Recent German Film and the
Holocaust’, Nottingham Trent University, 2000
- 'The Triumph of Subjectivity in Martin
Walser's Fiction of the 1990s and his Lebenslauf der Liebe',
Martin Walser Conference, London,
2002
- 'German wartime Suffering in Recent German
Literature', GSA, New
Orleans, September 2003
- 'Recent German Holocaust Films', Royal
Holloway, May 2004
Conference Organiser
Administration
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Officer
Postgraduate
Tutor
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