Dr. Heather Merle Benbow

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

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

Forschungsgebiete

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

Benbow, H. "'The Woman Should Reign and the Man Govern': Gendering Kant's Body Politic," in Melbourne Journal of Politics vol.30, 2006, pp.80-97
Benbow, H. '"False Tolerance" or False Feminism? Hijab Controversies in Australia and Germany," in Overland no.181, 2005, pp.10-15
Benbow, H. "Ways In, Ways Out: Theorizing the Kantian Body," in Body and Society vol.9, no.1, 2003, pp.57-72
Benbow, H. "'This lady was as educated as she was thin': Hunger and Gender in Wilhelm Raabe's Novel Der Hungerpastor," in (Sub)texts: New Perspectives on Language and Culture. School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature vol.3, 2003, pp.109-125
Benbow, H. "I Heart New York: Berlin and Transnational Jewishness in Max Minsky and Me," in Makokha, J. K. S., Wawrzinek, Jennifer and West-Pavlov, Russell (eds.). Border Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag (2012)
Benbow, H. "'It's about becoming homeless': Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed as Mock-Ethnography," in Miller, Cynthia J. (ed.). Too Bold for the Box Office: A Study in Mockumentaries. Scarecrow Press (2012)
Benbow, H. '"The only thing Turkish about me is my name and my face": Doris Dörrie's film Happy Birthday Türkey," in Warren, J. and Benbow H. (eds.). Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp.79-90
Benbow, H. "Figuring National Character in Kant's Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen," in Onuki, Atsuko and Pekar, Thomas (eds.). Figuration / Defiguration. Kultur und Kulturwissenschaft als Prozess. Munich: iudicium, 2005, pp.201-213
Benbow, H. "Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the Problem of Female Orality," in Henn, Marianne and Pausch, Holger (eds.). Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003, pp.315-332
Benbow, H. "'Die hungrige': Penthesilea und die Unerhörtheit des weiblichen Hungers," in Marquardt, Hans-Jochen (ed.). Frankfurter Kleist-Kolloquium. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 2003, pp.121-132.

Dissertation - Jahr der Publikation 2009

Herausgebertätigkeit Warren, J. and Benbow H. (eds.). Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008

Letzte Aktualisierung: Wed Aug 29 16:11:30 2012

Dr. Heather Merle Benbow

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