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Forschungsgebiete:
Besondere Forschungsgebiete:
- German and Austrian culture and literature since 1945
- German and Austrian poetry
Monographien:
- The Emergence of West German Poetry from the Second World War into the Early Post-War Period: A Study in Poetic Response (1989)
- Poetry in a Provisional Stae: the Austrian Lyric 1945-1955 (2007)
Aufsätze und Beiträge:
- A Darkening Vision: the Poetry of Marie Luise Kaschnitz (N, 1981)
- Günter Kunert and the Possibilities of Poetry (FMLS, 1982)
- Hamburg and the Revival of the Theatre in Post-war Germany (Trivium, 1982)
- Performing Foreign Language Drama: Some Observations (Speech and Drama, 1982)
- The New Technology and Language Learning: A Dissenting View (Language Monthly and International Journal of Translation, 1987)
- Max von der Grün: Stellenweise Glatteis (GT, 1991)
- Austria: Barometer of the New Europe (Austria Today, 1991)
- Gabriele Wohmann and Karl Krolow, in Contemporary World Authors (ed. T. Chevalier) (1992)
- Heinrich von Kleist and the Marquise of O, in Reference Guide to Short Fiction (ed. N. Watson) (1994)
- A Book Too Soon? Hans Lebert's Novel Die Wolfshaut, in Essays in Germanic Studies (ed. A. Bushell) (1994)
- Language Learning and the 'Weak' Advanced Student (LLJ, 1995)
- Austria's Political and Cultural Re-emergence: the First Decade, in Austria 1945 -1955 (ed. A. Bushell) ( 1996)
- Viennese Whirls: Accounting for Modern Austria (inaugural lecture, 1996)
- The Problem of Structure and Themes in Sarah Kirsch's Early Poetry, in Sarah Kirsch (ed. M. Hopwood) (1997)
- Implying or Denying the Reader? The Challenge of Julian Schutting's Poetry in Julian Schutting (ed. Harriet Murphy) (2000)
- Austria's Second Coming: The literary response to a restored Austria in the early years of the Second Republic, in The Phoney Peace: Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945-1949 (ed. Robert Pynsent)( 2000)
- The Poet between War and Peace: Marie Luise Kaschnitz's Essays Menschen und Dinge 1945in Experiencing Tradition: Essays of Discovery (ed Hinrich Siefken and Anthony Bushell (2003)
- Family History as National History: Peter Henisch's Novel Die kleine Figur meines Vaters and the Issue of Memory in Austria's Second Republic (Orbis Litterarum 2004)
- The Return of the Native, or the Neighbours are back: Anna Mitgutsch's novel Haus der Kindheit in Neighbours and Strangers: Germany, Austria and Central Europe: Literary and Cultural Relations since 1989 (ed Ian Foster et al(2004)
- Between Regeneration and Stagnation: The dislocation of Austrian Poetry in the Decade after 1945 (Austrian Studies (2004)
- Writing in Austria after 1945: The Political, Institutional and Publishing Context in A History of Austrian Literature 1918 - 2000 (ed. Ritchie Robertson and Katrin Kohl (2006)
- Many Happy Returns? The Status And Treatment of Exile in Austria's Literary and Cultural Journals in the early Post-War Years (The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 2006)
- Mozartkugeln als Waffen der Massenvernichtung, oder: Wer hat Angst vor der österreichischen Literatur? in Von aussen betrachtet (2007)
- German: We learn it or we lose it in Deutsch:Lehren und Lernen, 39, (Spring 2009), pp. 3-4
- Becoming a Poet: Gerhard Fritsch and the Austrian Lyric after 1945, in Modern Austrian Literature, vol 42, no 2 (2009), 23-46
- Linguistic Isolationism, Times Higher Education, 13-19 May 2010, p. 31
- Mediation or Refraction? Marie Luise Kaschnitz’s Edition and Reception of Grillparzer’s Medea, in Unbinding Medea. Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century, ed. Heike Bartel and Anne Simon, (Legenda, 2010), pp. 238-248
- Linguistic Isolationism, Times Higher Education, 13-19 May 2010, p. 31
- German: Product Recall, in Forum Deutsch. Zeitschrift der Canadian Association of Teachers of German, 19.1 (2011), 1-4.
Dissertation (Titel): The Emergence of West German Poetry from the Second World War into the Early Post-War Period: A Study in Poetic Response (;;
Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation: 1989
Übersetzungen:
- Andreas Fitner: The Universal Reflections of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1982)
- Wolfgang Schoop: Adaptation and Ecosystems - Research in a Land of the Incas (1982)
- Helmut Kohl: German Security Policy on the Threshold to the 21st Century (1998)
- Ulrich Rosengarten: The Geneva Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (1998)
- Gerhard Simon: The Historical Prerequisites for Russia's Modernisation (1998)
- Gregor Schöllgen: The Berlin Republic as a Player on the International Stage. Does Germany still have its own Political Interests? (1998)
Herausgebertätigkeit:
- Essays in Germanic Studies (1993)
- Austria 1945 - 1955: Studies in Political and Cultural Re-Emergence(1996)
- Experiencing Tradition: Essays of Discovery, with Hinrich Siefken(2003)
- Von aussen betrachtet.Zeitgenössische österreichische Literatur im Spiegel der Auslandsrezeption, mit Dagmar Košťálová(2007)
Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte :
- Vorstand: Britisch-slowakische Arbeitsgruppe zur zeitgenössischen österreichischen Literatur
- Research project: Polemical Austria
Stipendien: British Academy Personal Grant (2007)
Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: BA (Ulster), MA (Warwick), PhD (Birmingham), PGCE (Oxon)
Letzte Aktualisierung: Fri Aug 12 11:34:37 2011