Geb. 1974, Senior Lecturer in German Studies seit 2004, Sammelverzeichnis "Weitere Länder": Australien

German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Neuere dt. Literaturwissenschaft - Medien - Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia

Forschungsgebiete

• #Historische Kulturwissenschaft
• #Historische Anthropologie
• #Genderforschung
• #Landeskunde/'German Studies'
• #Klassik
• #Trivialliteratur
• #(Allgemeine) Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

• History of European Ideas
• National identity 18th-21st century
• Turkish-German literature and culture
• #German cinema
• Jews in German culture (18th-21st century)

Monographien The Beginnings of Modern Gendered Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Literary, Philosophical, and Popular Portrayals of Female Orality, 2009, Edwin Mellen Press

Aufsätze und Beiträge

• Anderson, L. and Benbow H. "'Christoph Meiners' History of the Female Sex (1788-1800): The Orientalisation of Spain and German Nationalism," in History of European Ideas vol.35, 2009, pp.433­-440
• Benbow, H. "The Gentleman and the Rogue: Jewish Protagonists in Lessing's The Jews and Levy's Go for Zucker!" in Australian Journal of Jewish Studies vol.23, 2009, pp.17-43
• Benbow, H. "Ethnic Drag in the Films of Doris Dörrie," in German Studies Review vol.30, no.3, 2007, pp.517-536
• Benbow, H. '"Was auf den Tisch kam, mußte aufgegessen (…) werden": Food, Gender and Power in Kafka's Letters and Stories," in German Quarterly vol.79, no.3, 2006, pp.347-365
• Benbow, H. '"Weil ich der raschen Lippe Herr nicht bin": Oral Transgression as Enlightenment Disavowal in Kleist's Penthesilea," in Women in German Yearbook vol.22, 2006, pp.145-166