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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Post-1945 German literature; Hein; National Socialist literature; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Machine translation

Monographien: The reception of Friedrich Hebbel in Germany in the era of National Socialism (1984).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: The literary treatment of the Upper Silesian and Rhenish crises during the Weimar Republic (GLL, 1986). Hans Zöberlein's Der Befehl des Gewissens and the National Socialist female ideal (NGS, 1986/87). Ernst Wiechert and his role between 1933 and 1945 (NGS, 1990/91). The vanquished self: Christoph Hein's Drachenblut and Der Tangospieler (JES, 1992). Apocalyptic elements in National Socialist 'Thingspiele' and in drama of the Weimar Republic (GLL, 1995). 'Das Geld ist nicht der Gral': Christoph Hein and the 'Wende' (MLR, 1995). The reception of Stephen Spielberg's Schindlers List in the German media (JES, 1995). Machine-friendly German and reader-friendly German: coterminous or contrasting concepts? (Language International, 1995). Entries on Christoph Hein and Heinrich Mann, in Encyclopaedic History of Modern Germany (ed. J. Doerr) (1997*). The green 'Bildungsroman', in Elements of ecological thought in modern German culture (ed. C. Riordan) (1997*). The handling of complex verb-noun formations in machine translation (WJMLL, 1997*). Die Darstellung Südamerikas in der modernen deutschen Literatur, in Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Fremde in der deutschsprachigen Kultur (ed. M. Stone) (1997*). Christoph Hein's Die Ritter der Tafelrunde: a GDR drama?, in Contemporary German literature: language, communication, orientation (ed. A. Williams et al.) (1998*). National Socialist 'Thingspiele' and their role in the Third Reich, in Nazi Theatre (ed. J. London) (1998*). Images of masculinity in literature of the Third Reich, in Masculinities (FMLS, 1998*).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (St. Andrews)