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Forschungsgebiete:

• #Historische Kulturwissenschaft
• #Genderforschung
• #Literatur im 20./21. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
• #Komparatistische Literaturforschung
• #Translationswissenschaft/Dolmetschwissenschaft

Monographien: Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing: The Novels of Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2008. Finding Refuge: Stories of the men, women and children who fled to wales to escape the Nazis, Aberystwyth, Honno, 2022. The Kindertransport: What Really Happened, Cambridge, Polity, 2023

Aufsätze und Beiträge:

• ‘Child Refugees Forever? The History of the Kindertransport 1938/39’ in Diskurs Kindheits-und Jugendforschung, 2010, No.2, Budrich Verlag, Leverkusen, 2010
• ‘”Why is your Czech so bad?” Czech Child Refugees, Language and Identity’ in Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove (eds), Exile to and from Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and 1940s. Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Vol.11, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2009;‘The Online Database of British Archival Resources relating to German-speaking Refugees, 1933-1950 (BARGE) in Context’ in Anthony Grenville and Andrea Hammel (eds), Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice. Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Vol.9, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2007
• ‘Jack Pritchard, refugees from Nazism and Isokon Design’ in Andrew Chandler, Katarzyna Stoklosa and Jutta Vinzent (eds), Cultural transfer at the Time of the Third Reich. Patronage and Exile. Mittel- und Osteuropastudien, LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2006
• ‘Between Adult Narrator and Narrated Child: Autobiographical Writing by Former Members of the Kindertransporte’ in Andrea Reiter (ed), Children of the Holocaust, special issue of Holocaust Studies. A Journal of Culture and History, Vol.11, No.2, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2005
• ‘The Destabilisations of Personal Histories: Rewriting and Translating Autobiographical Texts by German-Jewish Survivors’ in Lucia Boldrini and Peter Davies (eds), Autobiografictions. Comparative Critical Studies, Vol.1, No.3, University of Edinburgh Press,2004
• ‘Idealized or Demonized: Representations of Jewish Motherhood in the novels by Selma Kahn and Anna Gmeyner’ in Andrea Hammel and Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds), Not an Essence, but a Positioning: German-Jewish Women Writers, 1900-1938, Meidenbauer Verlag, Munich, 2009
• Online Database of British Archival Resources Relating to German-Speaking Refugees, 1933-1950 (BARGE). Ein Projektbericht’ in Inge Hansen-Schaberg (ed), Kinder und Jugendliche im Exil. Exilforschung. Ein Internationales Jahrbuch. Band 24, edition text+kritik, Munich, 2006
• ‘Imaging the Future through the Past: Austrian Women Exile Writers and the Historical Novel’ in Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove (eds), Austria in Exile. Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies,Vol.8, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006
• ‘The Kaleidoscope of Elsewhereness in Women’s Exile Writing: Martina’s Wied’s Das Krähennest and Anna Gmeyner’s Cafe du Dome’ in Alexander Stephan (ed), Exile and Otherness. Exile Studies. An Interdisciplinary Series, Vol.11, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2005
• ‘Representations of Family in Autobiographical Texts of Child Refugees’ in Wolfgang Benz, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hammel (eds), Kindertransporte 1938/39 - Rescue and Integration, Special edition of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol.24, No.1, Purdue University Press,2004
• ‘Familienbilder im Spannungsfeld: Autobiographische Texte von ehemaligen Kindertransport-Teilnehmern’ in Wolfgang Benz, Claudia Curio, Andrea Hammel (eds), Die Kindertransporte 1938/39. Rettung und Integration, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003
• Gender and Migration’ in Jon Hughes and Edward Timms (eds), Intellectual Migration and Cultural Transformation, Springer Verlag, Vienna and New York, 2002

Herausgebertätigkeit:

• The Kindertransport 1938/39: New Perspectives. Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Vol.13, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2011,co-edited with Bea Lewkowicz
• Not an Essence, but a Positioning: German-Jewish Women Writers, 1900-1938, Meidenbauer Verlag, Munich, 2009, co-edited with Godela Weiss-Sussex
• Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice. Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Vol.9, Rodopi, Amsterdam,2007, co-edited with Anthony Grenville
• Kindertransporte 1938/39 - Rescue and Integration, Special edition of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Purdue University Press, 2004, co-edited with Wolfgang Benz and Claudia Curio
• Die Kindertransporte 1938/39. Rettung und Integration, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt,2003, co-edited with Wolfgang Benz und Claudia Curio
• Writing after Hitler: the Work of Jakov Lind, University of Wales Press, 2001, co-edited with Silke Hassler and Edward Timms
• The German-Jewish Dilemma: From the Enlightenment to the Shoah, Edwin Mellen Press, New York,1999, co-edited with Edward Timms

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte :

• Holocaust Writing and Translation Network
• Centre for German-Jewish Studies
• The History and Memory of the Kindertransport to Britain
• Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften :

• Association of German Studies in great Britain and Ireland
• Women in German Studies
• Gesellschaft fuer Exilforschung

Stipendien: AHRC, British Academy, Claims Conference, National Heritage Lottery Fund

Letzte Aktualisierung: Fri Nov 17 16:00:01 2023