People
Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
Founding Director
Prof em. Rüdiger Görner
Acting Director
Dr Falco Pfalzgraf
Co-Acting Director
Dr Martina Deny
Research Section Convenors
Prof em. Astrid Köhler
Literature (currently dormant)
Dr Falco Pfalzgraf
Language / Linguistics
Prof Angus Nicholls
Intellectual History (currently dormant)
Former Fellows
Dr Kaltërina Latifi (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Ms Andrea Meyer Ludowisy (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Dr Nazli Nikjamal (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Dr Jana Riedel (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Dr Josh Torabi (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Dr Ángela Calderón Villarino (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Dr Maren Scheurer (Visiting Research Fellow)
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Current PhD Students
Rebecca Bourne (submitted) – ‘Francis Stuart and Sir Roger Casement as Cultural Mediators and Proponents of an Independent Ireland: An Examination of Identity, Irishness, and Independence’
Matthew Shaul – ‘Colour of identity: The Emblematic Function of Colour Photography in the Formation of German Identity'
Former PhD Students
Dr Patrick Chester – 'Tremors of Thought: Conceptions of disaster and negativity in Empedoclean Romanticism'
Dr Catherine Mason – ‘Idealism and Ideology in the Language-Learning Classroom: A comparative study of the fading canon of English and German literature set for study 1900 to the present’
Dr Anchit Sathi – ‘Queer parenthood in European modernism: Reflections on Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust’
Dr Matthew Shaul – ‘Colour my Dreams? Colour Photography and the Invention of German Identity’
Dr Melanie Xang-Er Tang – ‘Nietzschean Aestheticism in Early Twentieth-Century Literature’
Dr Margit Dirscherl – 'Heinrich Heines Poetik der Stadt'
Dr John Goodyear – 'Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: Urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism'
Dr Annette Grötler – 'Pikturales Erzählen. Thomas Mann und die bildende Kunst'
Dr Patricia Kemmer – 'Conceptualizing Encounters with Objects: Texts by Neil MacGregor, Edmund de Waal, and Aanchal Malhotra as paradigms of personalized historiography'
Dr Jana Riedel – 'Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Collector, Educator and Cultural Transferant'
Dr Richelle Whitehead – 'Nietzsche's Conception of Comprehension'