Dr. Helen Finch

Professor seit 2009, Leeds, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft - German Studies (Fachgebiet) - Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft; Übersetzung; DaF (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Leeds - Leeds LS2 9JT

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

W. G. Sebald
H. G. Adler
Queere Themen in der deutschen Literatur
Politik des literarischen Feldes
#Holocaustliteratur
#Günter Grass
#Elfriede Jelinek
Gender und deutsche Literatur
Shoah und Literatur

Monographien Finch, HC, German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond Testimony (Camden House, 2023) Finch HC, Sebald's Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life, Germanic Literatures (London: Legenda, 2013)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

Finch HC, "A Wende in representing the Holocaust in German literature? From Jurek Becker to W. G. Sebald", German Quarterly 96.3 (Summer 2023)
Finch HC, “What remains of Peter Handke?”, The Austrian Riveter 2023, 197-199
Finch HC, with Elliott C, McDonnell P ‘Diversifying the German Curriculum through Student Research’, in Transverse Disciplines: Working across and beyond Academic Communities Edited by: Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith. U of Toronto Press, 2022
Finch, HC, On teaching Handke: Canon and curriculum in the wake of the Nobel Prize. Collateral 2021, 31
Finch H, ‘Writing the Displaced Person: H. G. Adler’s Poetics of Exile’, Humanities, 8.3 (2019)
Finch H, ‘HOLOCAUST TRANSLATION, COMMUNICATION AND WITNESS IN THE WORK OF H. G. ADLER’, German Life and Letters, 68.3 (2015), 427-443"
Finch HC, ‘Revenge, Restitution, Ressentiment. Edgar Hilsenrath’s and Ruth Klüger’s Late Writings as Holocaust Metatestimony’ in German Jewish Literature after 1990 (2018)
Finch H. Generational Conflicts, Generational Affinities: Broch, Adorno, Adler, Sebald. In: Finch H, Wolff LL, eds. Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald. Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture, and Thought. Rochester, NY: Camden House; 2014

Finch HC, ‘‘Ressentiment beyond Nietzsche and Amery; H. G. Adler between Literary Ressentiment and Divine Grace’’ in Re-thinking Ressentiment. On the Limits of Criticism and the Limits of its Critics , ed. by Riou J and Gallagher M , Kultur- und Medientheorie (Transkript, 2016), 71-86
Finch H, ‘Prague Circles: H. G. Adler’s Kafkaesque Hope’ in H. G. Adler. Life, Literature, Legacy , ed. by Creet J, Horowitz S and Bojadzija-Dan A (Northwestern University Press, 2016)
Finch H, Wolff LL, Witnessing, Memory, Poetics H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald (Camden House (NY), 2014)
'Everything Nowadays Has to be Queer and Gender': Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Novels of Antje Rávic Strubel', in Women in German Yearbook 28 (2012)
'"Like refugees who have come through dreadful ordeals": The Theme of the Anglo-Irish in The Rings of Saturn', in W. G. Sebald: A Literature of Restitution, eds Ben Hutchinson, Valerie Henitiuk, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012)
'Elfriede Jelinek, Gier', in The Novel in German since 1990, ed. Stuart Taberner, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 151-164
'Recalling the goddess Pandora: From Utopia to Resignation, from Goethe to Peter Hacks in Irmtraud Morgner's Amanda', in Edinburgh German Yearbook vol. 3 (2009): Contested Legacies - Constructions of Cultural Heritage in the GDR, pp. 218-232
'Günter Grass and Gender', in: The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass, ed. Stuart Taberner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp. 81-95
'Günter Grass's account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer?', in: 'Germans as Victims' in The Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic, eds Karina Berger, Stuart Taberner, (Rochester: Camden House, 2009) pp. 170-191
'"Die irdische Erfüllung": Peter Handke's Poetic Landscapes and W. G. Sebald's Metaphysics of History in W. G. Sebald's work', in: W. G. Sebald and the Writing of History, eds Anne Fuchs, Jonathan Long (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007), pp. 179-197

Dissertation (Titel) Meine mir unbekannte Herkunft: German identity and history in the works of W. G. Sebald, Peter Handke and Botho Strauß

Herausgebertätigkeit Finch HC, Wolff LL, Witnessing, Memory, Poetics. H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald (Camden House, 2014)

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte Holocaust Literature in German: Canon, Witness, Remediation (Projekt)

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften Women in German Studies (Mitglied) Association of German Studies (Mitglied)

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen Mitherausgeberin der Reihe Peter Lang Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Culture

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