Dr. Heather Merle Benbow
Geb. 1974, Melbourne, Australien
German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Neuere dt. Literaturwissenschaft - Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Lehrgebiet)
Kontaktinformationen:
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
Andere dienstliche Anschrift School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
Forschungsgebiete
- #Historische Kulturwissenschaft
- #Historische Anthropologie
- #Genderforschung
- #Landeskunde/'German Studies'
- #Klassik
- #Literatur im 20./21. Jahrhundert, Exilliteratur, Literatur seit 1945
- #Trivialliteratur
- #(Allgemeine) Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Besondere Forschungsgebiete
- History of European Ideas
- Turkish-German literature and culture
- #German cinema
- Cultural food studies
Monographien Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture: States of Matrimony in the New Millennium, 2015, Lexington 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 Since 2015: Benbow, H. “Commensality and Conflict: Food, Drink and Intercultural Encounters in the Battle of Timor” Journal of Intercultural Studies (forthcoming). Anderson, L. and Benbow H. “Tradition, modernity and exoticism: plating up Peruvian in Melbourne,” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 31:1, 2017, pp.114-125 Anderson, L., Benbow H. and Manzin, G. “Europe on a Plate: Food, Identity and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Europe,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, vol.8, no.1, 2016, pp.2-14 Benbow, H. “Food, Gender and Cross-Cultural Consumption in Turkish–German Chick Lit,” Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment, vol. 23, no.3, 2015, pp. 141–162 Anderson, L. and H. Benbow, “Cultural Indigestion in Multicultural Australia: Fear of ‘Foreign’ Foods in Australian Media,” Gastronomica, 15.1, 2015 Benbow, H. “Transnational Turkish-German Travelogues: Turkish-German Women Writers’ Travel Narratives” in Shafi, Monika and Karin Baumgartner (eds) Contemporary German Travel Writing. Rochester, NY: Camden House (forthcoming 2018) Benbow, H. “Integration geht durch den Magen?: Interkulturelles Essen in ‚Krisenzeiten’” in West-Pavlov, Russell (ed.) Interkulturelle Bildung und die Flüchtlingsdebatte, Tübingen: Narr Verlag (forthcoming 2017) Benbow, H. “Discourses of ‘Rescue’ and ‘Exit’ in Gay Turkish-German Coming-of-Age Novels,” in Bandhauer, Andrea, Yixu Lü, Peter Morgan und Tristan Lay (eds) Die Welt auf Deutsch: Fremdenbilder und Selbstentwürfe in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Kultur. Sankt Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag (forthcoming 2017), pp.195-210