Geb. 1968, Reader seit 2014, Exeter, Großbritannien/Nordirland
German Studies (Fachgebiet)
- German language; 20th-c. prose fiction; post-1945 film; cultural memory; museum studies; professional translation skills. (Lehrgebiet)
Kontaktinformationen:
Univ. of Exeter-1 - Dep. of Modern Languages, School of Arts, Languages and Literatures - Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive - Exeter EX4 4QH
History exhibitions about the National Socialist era and GDR
Museum accessibility
Cultural memory
Representations of the Third Reich in contemporary fiction, film and culture
Fiction since the 'Wende'
Monographien
Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film (Oxford: OUP, 2007)
Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel (Oxford: OUP, 1999)
Exhibiting the Nazi Past: Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Aufsätze und Beiträge
‘“Wartime” Ephemera from the Family Home in German and Austrian History Museums: A Counter-Example to the British Case’, Genealogy, 8.2 (2024), 14 pages, no pagination
‘The Sermon as Discursive Frame for the Nazi Past; Preaching about the German History Exhibition Neue Anfänge nach 1945?’, Journal for the History of Rhetoric, 26.3 (2023), 331-58
‘Worthy Words: The Rhetoric of Speeches in Support of Exhibitions about National Socialism’, Modern Language Review, 117.4 (2022), 664-86
‘Exhibiting Negative Feelings: Writing a History of Emotions in German History Museums’, Museum and Society, 14.3 (2016), 397-411
'The Transmission of Household Objects from the National Socialist Era to the Present in Germany and Austria: A Local Conversation within a Globalized Discourse’, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 9.2 (2016), 229-52
‘Colour and Time in Museums of East German Everyday Life’, in Anna Saunders and Debbie Pinfold, eds, Remembering and Rethinking the GDR (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 132-46
'What's so Austrian about the Alps? Local, Transnational and Global Perspectives in Austrian Exhibitions about the Alps', Austrian Studies, 18 (2010), 179-195
'You Shall Know them by Their Objects: Material Culture and Its Impact in Museum Displays about National Socialism', in Rebecca Braun and Lyn Marven (eds), Cultural Impact in the German Context: Models of Transmission, Reception and Influence (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010), pp. 169-187