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Forschungsgebiete:

• Historische Kulturwissenschaft
• Genderforschung
• Landeskunde/'German Studies'
• Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
• Komparatistische Literaturforschung
• Literatur und andere Künste
• Theaterwissenschaft, Theatergeschichte, Theatertheorie
• Trivialliteratur
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache, interkulturelle Kommunikation

Besondere Forschungsgebiete:

• Comparative Cultural Studies
• Modern German Writers and Popular Culture
• German Cultural History
• Modern European Theatre
• Anna Seghers
• Martin Walser
• Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Monographien in Auswahl:

• Martin Walser: The Development as Dramatist 1950-1970 (1978)
• Martin Walser (1980)
• Changing Cultural Tastes: Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany (2007)

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• (with W. Barry) An Advanced Level Language Laboratory Remedial Grammar Course (LB, 1970)
• The Use of Integrated Materials in Advanced Language Teaching (AVLJ, 1972)
• Productive Paradoxes and Parallels in Martin Walser's Seelenarbeit (GLL, 1981)
• The Legacy for German-speaking Playwrights, in Brecht in Perspective (ed. G. Bartram et al.) (1982)
• Introduction to Culture and Society in the GDR (1984)
• The Individual, Power and Politics: A Study of Anna Seghers' Das Siebte Kreuz (Quinquereme, 1985)
• Images of Women in Anna Seghers' Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen (NGS, 1985)
• Literature and the Radio in Post-War Germany: A Portrait of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (JES, 1986)
• Martin Walser, in The Modern German Novel (ed. K. Bullivant) (1987)
• (with A. Döring) British Popular Culture und die deutsche Literatur, oder: Pop will eat itself - aber noch ist kein Ende in Sicht (Lili, 1987)
• Martin Walser, in After the Death of Literature (ed. K. Bullivant) (1989)
• Recent German Writing and the Influence of Popular Culture (ibid.)
• Entries in International Dictionary of the Theatre (1992)
• Fatal Attractions: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and British Life and Culture (MLR, 1992)
• Anatomy of a Serious Thriller: Jörg Fauser's Der Schneemann (N, 1992)
• Carl Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General as a Critique of the Cult of Masculinity (FMLS, 1993)
• Martin Walser, in Contemporary World Writers (1993)
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger (ibid.)
• The Polycultural Nature of Walser's Protagonists in Seelenarbeit, Brandung and Die Verteidigung der Kindheit, in Leseerfahrungen mit Martin Walser (1995)
• Sons and Fathers: West German Writers' Private Perspective on a Public Past, in Reconstructing the Past (1996)
• Persecution and Faith in Anna Seghers's Radio Play Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc zu Rouen 1431, in Anna Seghers in Perspective (1999)
• Templones Ende and Walser's Arrival, in The Gruppe 47 Fifty Years On: A Re-appraisal of its Literary and Political Significance (1999)
• Postmodern Moods and Morals in Wolfgang Bauer's Sixties trilogy Party for Six, Magic Afternoon, and Change, in Centre Stage: Contemporary Drama in Austria (1999); LUST-ig: Die Kultivierung der Sexualität bei Brinkmann, in Amerikanischer Speck, englischer Honig, italienische Nüsse: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann zum 60. (2000)
• Little Man, Big Man: Popular Culture and Masculinity in Peter Härtling's Hubert oder die Rückkehr nach Casablanca (FMLS 2001)
• (with Woolley, Jonathan) Blissful, Torn, Intoxicated: Brinkmann, Fauser, Wondratschek, and the Beats, in The Beat Generation: Critical Essays (2002)
• Der kleine Mann and Modern Times - From Fallada to Walser, in The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel (2004)
• Das Triviale - ästhetischer Naevus oder changierendes Geschmacksparadigma? Walsers Stücke der sechziger Jahre, in Seelenarbeit an Deutschland: Martin Walser in Perspective (2004)
• Anna Seghers's Transit: A Late Modern Thriller - Without Thrills (N, 2005)

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:

• (with W. Barry) Remedial Grammar and Pronunciation: A Dual-Purpose Programme for Advanced Learners of English (LB-Papier 25) (1972)
• (with G. Bartram) Brecht in Perspective (1982)
• (with G. Bartram) Culture and Society in the GDR (1984)

Stipendien: DAAD; British Academy

Letzte Aktualisierung: Sat Oct 25 14:44:33 2008

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: BA (Newcastle upon Tyne), PhD (Lancaster)