Geb. 1956, Aberdeen, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - Sprachwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - German language and linguistics (machine translation); German literature (esp. 19th-c. drama, 20th-c. novel); German film; German history (Lehrgebiet)

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University of Aberdeen - Department of German, University of Aberdeen - Taylor Building, King's College, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Post-1945 German literature; Hein; National Socialist literature; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Machine translation

Monographien The reception of Friedrich Hebbel in Germany in the era of National Socialism (1984).

Aufsätze und Beiträge The literary treatment of the Upper Silesian and Rhenish crises during the Weimar Republic (GLL, 1986). Hans Zöberlein's Der Befehl des Gewissens and the National Socialist female ideal (NGS, 1986/87). Ernst Wiechert and his role between 1933 and 1945 (NGS, 1990/91). The vanquished self: Christoph Hein's Drachenblut and Der Tangospieler (JES, 1992). Apocalyptic elements in National Socialist 'Thingspiele' and in drama of the Weimar Republic (GLL, 1995). 'Das Geld ist nicht der Gral': Christoph Hein and the 'Wende' (MLR, 1995). The reception of Stephen Spielberg's Schindlers List in the German media (JES, 1995). Machine-friendly German and reader-friendly German: coterminous or contrasting concepts? (Language International, 1995). Entries on Christoph Hein and Heinrich Mann, in Encyclopaedic History of Modern Germany (ed. J. Doerr) (1997*). The green 'Bildungsroman', in Elements of ecological thought in modern German culture (ed. C. Riordan) (1997*). The handling of complex verb-noun formations in machine translation (WJMLL, 1997*). Die Darstellung Südamerikas in der modernen deutschen Literatur, in Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Fremde in der deutschsprachigen Kultur (ed. M. Stone) (1997*). Christoph Hein's Die Ritter der Tafelrunde: a GDR drama?, in Contemporary German literature: language, communication, orientation (ed. A. Williams et al.) (1998*). National Socialist 'Thingspiele' and their role in the Third Reich, in Nazi Theatre (ed. J. London) (1998*). Images of masculinity in literature of the Third Reich, in Masculinities (FMLS, 1998*).