IGS staff
Isabelle Hertner - Director
Sara Jones - Deputy Director
Felix Heiduk - Lecturer
Current PhD researchers
Ivor M. Bolton
The implementation of German heritage policy and the representation of ‘inner unity’ through memorials and museums.
Charlotte Galpin
From the Euro to the Eurozone Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Identity Discourses in the UK, Germany and Poland 2002 - 2012.
Josefin Graef
The Past is Present. Negotiating Notions of Europeanness in the European Union: Interperceptions of Racism and Xenophobia in Germany, Austria and Great Britain
Leila Mukhida
Transnational Co-production in Post-reunification German Language Cinema
Associate / affiliated staff
Dr Mike Adkins (POLSIS)
Research about: comparative euroscepticism; political parties; party system theory; politics of Western Europe; manifesto research; elections and voting behaviour; German politics; British politics; European Union politics
Professor Bill Dodd (German Studies)
Research about: "inner emigration" of the Nazi period; language criticism, critical linguistics (discourse analysis), and corpus linguistics; language pedagogy; Kafka
Dr Elystan Griffiths (German Studies)
Research about: German literature from 1770 to1815; German film
Dr Jonathan Grix
Research about: Sport in Germany; the German unification process; East German identity, politics and history; the East German sports system
Hans Kundnani (European Council on Foreign Relations)
Research about: Germany's 1968 generation and the Holocaust, German geo-economic power in the 21st century, and German-Chinese relations.
Professor William E Paterson - Professor Emeritus
Research about: Germany and the EU; Germany and Eastern Europe; Government and politics of Germany; party systems and elections; the impact of unification
Dr Joanne Sayner (German Studies)
Research about: women's writing and feminist theory; the politics of remembrance; gendered memories of Nazism; autobiography and identity.
Professor Ronald Speirs (German Studies)
Research about: Brecht, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Fascism and European literature, the first unification of Germany, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber
Dr Graham Timmins (POLSIS)
Research about: The external activities of the European Union with a specific interest in the European Union's 'eastern policy'. Professor Timmins is involved in a number of research projects examining European Union-Russian relations and since 2006 has been a joint coordinator of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)-University Association for Contemporary Studies (UACES) Joint Research Network on EU-Russia Relations. He also maintains an interest in German politics and has a specific interest in German European and Foreign Policy as well as Germany's bilateral relations with Russia.
Professor Wilfried van der Will - Honorary Professor
Research about: German culture, philosophy and politics; German literature and society post-1945; the worker-culture movement of the Weimar Republic; culture in the Third Reich; protest and democracy from the 1960s to the 1980s; the reception of Nietzsche
Professor Stefan Wolff (POLSIS)
Research about: ethnic German minorities in Central and Easter Europe; ethnic German expellees, refugees and ‘returnees’ and their integration in the Federal Republic; policies of German governments towards ethnic German minorities abroad; expellee organisations in the Federal Republic, German Ostpolitik, the German ‘question’ in international politics.