Land: Großbritannien/Irland

Anrede: Herr

Nachname: WEBBER

Vorname: Andrew John

Geburtsjahr: 1959

Titel: Dr.

Derzeitige Position: ProfessorReader

Seit: 2010

Hochschulort: Cambridge

Hochschule/ Instituts-Anschrift:University of Cambridge - Department of German, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages - University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA

Andere dienstliche Anschrift: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS

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Lehrgebiet(e): Modern German literature; European Modernism; Psychoanalytic theory; Film; Berlin

Fachgebiet/ Organisatorische Zugehörigkeit: Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft

Standardisierte Forschungsgebiete:

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

Frei formulierte Forschungsgebiete:

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

Monographien in Auswahl:

• 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)

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• Kleist's Doppelgänger: an open and shut case? (PEGS, 1995)
• 'On the Threshold to/of Alterity: Nosferatu in Text and Film', in Schwellen: Germanistische Erkundungen einer Metapher (ed. Nicholas Saul et al.) (1999)
• 'Kuhle Wampe, or How to Read a Film', in From Classical Shades to Vickers Victorious: Shifting Perspectives in British German Studies (ed. S. Giles & P. Graves) (1999)
• 'Georg Trakl: "Abendland"', in Landmarks in German Poetry (ed. P. Hutchinson) (2000)
• 'Canning the Uncanny: The Construction of Visual Desire in Metropolis', in Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear (ed. M. Minden & H. Bachmann) (2000)
• 'Narcissism and Alienation: Mirror-images in the New German Cinema', in Deutschland im Spiegel seiner Filme (ed. M. Brady & H. Hughes) (2000)
• '"Rauschen und Reden": Thomas Mann und die Rücksicht auf Darstellbarkeit', in Rauschen: Seine Phänomenologie und Semantik zwischen Sinn und Störung (ed. A. Hiepko & K. Stopka) (2001)
• '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)
• 'Gender and the City: Lola rennt', German as a Foreign Language, Issue 1 (2003), 1-16 (http://www.gfl-journal.de/1-2003/webber.html)
• 'Unnatural Acts: Sexuality, Film, and the Law', in Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law (ed. B. Brookes-Gordon et al.) (2004)
• '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.

Übersetzungen in Auswahl: Freud, The Schreber Case (2002)

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:

• 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)

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

Letzte Aktualisierung: Mon Aug 1 10:36:45 2011

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA, PhD (Cantab); Fellow of Churchill College

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