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Forschungsgebiete:

• #Medienwissenschaft, Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte
• #Text und Bild, Multimedia
• #Historische Kulturwissenschaft
• #Genderforschung
• #Romantik
• #Realismus, Naturalismus
• #Jahrhundertwende, Expressionismus, Neue Sachlichkeit
• #Literatur im 20./21. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
• #Komparatistische Literaturforschung
• #Literatur und andere Künste
• #Theorie der Literatur und der Literaturvermittlung

Besondere Forschungsgebiete:

• Modern German literature
• European Modernism
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Film
• Berlin
• Digital Humanities

Monographien:

• Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil (1990)
• The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature (1996)
• The European Avant-garde (2004)
• Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography (2008/2011)

Aufsätze und Beiträge:

• 'Mann's Man's World: Gender and Sexuality', in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (ed. R. Robertson) (2002)
• 'Georg Büchner: Woyzeck', in Landmarks in German Drama (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2002)
• 'Traumatic Identities: Race and Gender in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche and Freud's Der Mann Moses', in Harmony in Discord: German Women Writers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (ed. L. Martin) (2002)
• 'Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in the Works of Thomas Bernhard', in A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard (ed. M. Konzett) (2002)
• 'The Manipulation of Fantasy and Trauma in Orlacs Hände', in Words, Texts, Images, (ed. K. Kohl & R. Robertson) (2002)
• 'Kafka, Die Verwandlung', in Landmarks in German Short Prose, (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2002)
• 'The Afterlife of Romanticism' in Camden House History of German Literature, vol. 9, The Nineteenth Century (ed. E. Downing & C. Koelb) (2005)
• 'Pan-Dora's box: fetishism, hysteria, and the gift of death in Die Büchse der Pandora', International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 87 (2006)
• 'Inside Out: Acts of Displacement in Else Lasker-Schüler', Germanic Review, 81.2 (Spring 2006), 143-62
• 'Büchner, Leonce und Lena', in Landmarks in German Comedy (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2006)
• 'Falling Walls, Sliding Doors, Open Windows: Berlin on Film after the Wende', German as a Foreign Language (1, 2006), 5-23 (http://www. gfl-journal. de/ 1-2006/ webber. html)
• 'Else Lasker-Schüler', in Landmarks in German Women's Writing (ed. H. Brown) (2007), 122-38
• 'Eventidings: Georg Trakl and Else Lasker-Schüler', in Der Mnemosyne Träume: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Joseph P. Strelka (ed. Ilona Slawinski) (2007), 459-71
• 'Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz', in Landmarks in the German Novel (1) (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2007), 167-82
• 'Worst of all Possible Worlds? Ingeborg Bachmann's Ein Ort für Zufälle', Austrian Studies 15 (2007), 112-29
• 'Introduction: Moving Images of Cities', in Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis (ed. Webber and E. Wilson) (2007)
• 'Symphony of a City: Motion Pictures and Still Lives in Weimar Berlin', in Cities in Transition (2007)
• 'Kafkas Verwandlungskunst', in Kafka: Schriftenreihe der deutschen Kafka- Gesellschaft, 2 (2008), 275-90
• 'Berlin is Running: Olympic Memories and Queer Performances', in Queer Cinema in Europe (ed. Robin Griffiths) (2008), 195-206
• ''Unbewohnbar und doch unverlaßbar': Brecht and Berlin', Bertolt Brecht: A Reassessment of His Work and Legacy (ed. R. Gillett and G. Weiss-Sussex) (2008), 153-67
• 'Berlin: A Topographical Case History', in The Politics of Place in Post-War Germany: Essays in Literary Criticism (ed. D. Clarke and R. Rechtien) (2009), 107-26
• 'Secrets and Keys: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Film in the Curious Cases of Musil's Törleß and Pabst's Geheimnisse einer Seele', Oxford German Studies, special number on Curiosity (ed. C. Duttlinger and J. Birgfeld) (2009), 188-202
• 'Benjamin's Passage-work', in Passage-work: Walter Benjamin between the Disciplines, ed. Webber, Paragraph, 32.3 (2009), 265-72
• 'Other Places: Döblin's Berlin Topographies', in Alfred Döblin: Paradigms of Modernism, (ed. S. Davies and E. Schonfield) (2009), 261-75
• 'Freuds 'Leben' Schrebers', in Die Biographie - Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte (ed. W. Hemecker and W. Kreutzer (2009), 155-78
• ‘Visiting Michael Hamburger on film’, in From Charlottenburg to Middleton: Michael Hamburger (1924-2007): Poet, Translator, ed. Joyce Crick, Martin Liebscher, and Martin Swales (London: IGRS/Judicium, 2010), 98–112
• ‘Psychoanalysis, Homosexuality and Modernism’, in The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing, ed. Hugh Stevens (Cambridge: CUP, 2010), 34–49
• ‘Sehen und Schreiben filmischer Körperteile bei und nach Balázs’, Grauzonen: Positionen zwischen Text und Film 1910-1960, ed. Stefan Keppler and Fabienne Liptay (Munich: text + kritik, 2010), 80–101
• ‘Threshold Conditions: Benjamin, Schnitzler and the Sleeping Disorders of Modernism’, in Die Halbschlafbilder in der Literatur, den Künsten und den Wissenschaften, ed. Roger Paulin and Helmut Pfotenhauer (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011), 275–90
• ‘Topographical Turns: Recasting Berlin in Christian Petzold’s Ghosts’, in Debating German Cultural Identity Since 1989, ed. Anne Fuchs, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Linda Shortt (Rochester: Camden House, 2012), 67–81
• ‘About Face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar Film and the Technological Afterlife of Gothic Physiognomy’, in Popular Revenants: German Gothic and its International Reception 1800–2000, ed. Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane (Rochester: Camden House, 2012), 161– 80
• ‘Wunderblock: Durs Grünbein and the Urban Arts of Memory’, in Durs Grünbein Today, ed. Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder and Chris Young (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), 145–62
• ‘The Case Study’, in A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture, ed. Laura Markus and Ankhi Mukherjee (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), 34– 48
• Slow Motion Pictures: Casting Inertia in Contemporary Berlin Films’, in Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture, ed. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Christoph Lindner (London/New York: IB Tauris, 2014), 203–17
• ‘‘Visual Culture in the Berlin Republic: Memory Work and Arts of the Present’, in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary German Politics and Culture, ed. Sarah Colvin (London: Routledge, 2014), 163–77
• ‘“Good Work”: Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold’s Barbara’, in Time in German Literature and Culture, 1900–2000: Between Acceleration and Slowness, ed. Anne Fuchs and Jonathan Long (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016), 173–88
• ‘Introduction’, Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin (Cambridge: CUP, 2017), 1–12
• ‘Charting Extraterritorial Identity in the Opening of Lenz’, in Georg Büchner: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Robert Gillett, Ernest Schonfeld and Daniel Steuer (Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi, 2017), 244–260
• ‘Fassbinder: The Stylist’, Sight and Sound (May 2017)
• ‘Namens- oder Familienähnlichkeiten: Fallgeschichte und Falldrama bei Schnitzler und Freud’, in Textschicksale: Das Werk Arthur Schnitzlers im Kontext der Moderne, ed. Wolfgang Lukas and Michael Scheffel (de Gruyter, 2017), 77–92
• ‘Life-times: Digitality and Ontology in Christian Petzold’s Etwas Besseres als den Tod’, for Oxford German Studies 46.4 (2017), 345–59
• ‘The City’, in Kafka in Context, ed. Carolin Duttlinger (Cambridge: CUP, 2017), 233–40
• ‘Inextinguishable Fire, or How to Make a Film in Berlin in 1968’, in Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968, ed. Mark Shiel (Temple University Press, 2018), 91–111
• ‘Introduction: Being in Place’, in Placing Schnitzler, Austrian Studies 27 (2019), ed. Beniston and Webber, pp. 1-12
• ‘Travelling Cases: Figures of Displacement in and around Schnitzler’s Das weite Land’. in Placing Schnitzler, Austrian Studies 27 (2019), ed. Beniston and Webber, pp. 179-94

Übersetzungen: Freud, The Schreber Case (2002)

Herausgebertätigkeit:

• Eight German Novellas (1997)
• Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies (with C. Duttlinger, L. Ruprecht) (2003)
• Cities in Transition (with E. Wilson) (2007)
• Memory Culture and the Contemporary City (2009)
• Passage-work: Walter Benjamin between the Disciplines (Paragraph, 2009)
• Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin (2017)
• South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations (with Kerry Bystrom, Ashleigh Harris) (2018)
• Placing Schnitzler (with J. Beniston) (Austrian Studies, 27 (2019))

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte : Principal Investigator, Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works of Arthur Schnitzler (AHRC) 2014-19 (https://www. arthur-schnitzler. org/ )

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften : Fellow of the British Academy

Stipendien: DAAD Senior Academic Research Award; AHRB Research Leave Award; Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (Cantab); Fellow of Churchill College; Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literature (Tubingen, 2015-16)

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