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We provide an ideal interdisciplinary setting for the study of German language, literature, history and culture in an international context. We offer a wide range of courses at undergraduate and graduate level supported by excellent facilities and resources - and, of course, by a supportive and very approachable teaching staff.
Staff research interests include l8th - 20th Century Studies, Travel Writing, Translation Theory, Autobiographies, Medieval Literature, German Language Cinema, German Romanticism, German-Irish Cultural Relations, Gender Studies, GDR- and post-GDR Writing and New Technologies in Language Teaching and Learning.
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Trembling Drums. The Permeable Membranes of Rilke’s “Weltinnenraum”
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2014)At first sight, looking at Rilke’s Duineser Elegien and Sonette an Orpheus when thinking of utopian, dystopian or heterotopian spaces represented in literature seems an unlikely choice. It is Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte ... -
“I am coming!” Returning to the Womb in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and Michael Haneke’s Film La Pianiste
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2010)Elfriede Jelinek‟s Die Klavierspielerin (1983), 1 a novel about a piano teacher (Erika Kohut) at the Vienna conservatory in her late thirties who still lives with her mother in a small flat, deconstructs and anatomises ... -
Kontinuum der Ausnahmezustände. Hans-Henny Jahnn 1930-1950
(De Gruyter, 2016-12-31)Hans Henny Jahnn (1894‒1959) gilt heute als einer der „großen produktiven Außenseiter des [20.] Jahrhunderts“ und zugleich als „Verneiner der Zivilisation“1 Die meisten Standardwerke der deutschen Literaturgeschichte ... -
Heidegger, or the neglect of boundaries
(Copernicus Publications, 2015-05-05)Benedikt Korf’s recent invitation to re-think the deployment of Heidegger’s philosophy within geography in the pages of this journal (Korf, 2014) is both opportune and essential: opportune, because the many and continuing ... -
Das Mühlviertel und Connemara - Richard Wall zum Thema zweier mutierender Landschaftsräume
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007)
