Professor, Lancaster, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - German language; modern and contemporary German literature; German cinema; Austrian Studies; (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

Lancaster University - Department of European Languages and Cultures (German Studies), Lancaster University - Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YN

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

• Contemporary Austrian literature
• Women's writing
• #Elfriede Jelinek
• Contemporary film and cultural studies
• Drama and performance

Monographien Rewriting Reality: An Introduction to Elfriede Jelinek (1994)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

• Problems with Porn: Situating Elfriede Jelinek's Lust (GLL, 1991)
• Jelinek's Ibsen: 'Noras' past and present (Austrian Studies, 1993)
• Demythologising the Austrian 'Heimat': Elfriede Jelinek as 'Nestbeschmutzer', in From High Priests to Desecrators: Contemporary Austrian Literature (ed. M. McGowan et al.) (1993)
• There goes that word again, or: Elfriede Jelinek and Postmodernism, in Framed by Language (ed. J. Johns et al.) (1994). Postwar Austrian Women's Writing, and Reading Elfriede Jelinek, in Postwar Women's Writing in German (ed. C. Weedon) (1997)
• 'Modernist or Postmodernist? The Absurd question in Marlene Streeruwitz', in Frank Finlay and Ralf Jeutter (eds), Centre Stage: Contemporary Drama in Austria (Rodopi, 1999), pp. 57-72
• 'Theorizing and "Playing" Sport in Elfriede Jelinek: Some Notes on Ein Sportstück', in W. E. Yates, Allyson Fiddler and John Warren (eds), From Perinet to Jelinek: Viennese Theatre in its Political and Intellectual Context (Peter Lang, 2001), pp. 271-81
• 'Staging Jörg Haider: Protest and Resignation in Elfriede Jelinek’s Das Lebewohl and Other Recent Texts for the Theatre', MLR, 97 (2002), 353-364
• 'Carinthia, Interculturalism, and Austrian National Identity: Cultural Reflections on 10 October 1920', German Life and Letters, 58, 2 (2005), 195-210
• 'Sport and National Identity in the "New" Austria: Sports Plays by Jelinek, Franzobel and Streeruwitz', in Janet Stewart, Simon Ward and Astrid Becksteiner (eds), Blueprints for No-Man’s Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture (Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 111-30
• 'Im Netz der Moral: Monologe, Massenmedien und Mythologie in Elfriede Jelineks Babel', in David Barnett, Moray McGowan and Karen Jürs-Munby (eds), Das Analoge sträubt sich gegen das Digitale? (Recherchen, Theater der Zeit, 2006), 101-112