Geb. 1949, Reader seit 2012, Cambridge, Großbritannien/Nordirland - German literature from 1750 to the present day; German cinema of the 1920s (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Cambridge - Department of German, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages - University of Cambridge - Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA

Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BL

Andere dienstliche Anschrift Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BL

Besondere Forschungsgebiete

• German literature and cultural history from 1750 to the present day
• German cinema of the 1920s

Monographien

• Arno Schmidt. A Critical Study of his Prose (1982)
• The German Bildungsroman. Incest and Inheritance (1997)
• Modern German Literature (2011)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

• Effi Briest and 'die historische Stunde des Takts' (MLR, 1981)
• The Place of Inheritance in the 'Bildungsroman' (DVLG, 1983)
• Problems of Realism in Immermann's Die Epigonen (OGS, 1985)
• . The City in Early Cinema: Metropolis, Berlin and October, in Unreal City (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1985)
• Politics and the Silent Cinema: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Battleship Potemkin, in Visions and Blueprints (ed. E.F. Timms et al.) (1987)
• Implications of the Narrative Technique in Der Butt, in Günter Grass's 'Der Butt' (ed. P.V. Brady et al.) (1990)
• Erzählen, Gedankenspiel, Traum und Sprache. Zur Entwicklung der Form in Schmidts mittlerer Werkphase, in Arno Schmidt. Leben - Werk - Wirkung (ed. M. Schardt et al.) (1990)