Lecturer in Translation Studies
I joined the Department of Modern Languages in 2011 and teach in Translation Studies and German. I co-ordinate the MA in Translation Studies – European Languages and Cultures pathway.
Professor of Modern German Studies
My main research interests are in German language, literature and culture of the twentieth century. I have published extensively on Franz Kafka and on the literature and culture of dissent in the “Third Reich” (the so-called “inner emigration”). I am also interested in linguistic and sociological approaches to discourse, and in language description. I teach a ...
Lecturer in German Studies
I teach German, both modern and medieval, at all levels, as well as giving students a rare opportunity to discover and enjoy the oldest of all the Germanic languages, Gothic.
Senior Lecturer in German
My main research interests are in German literature of the period 1750-1815, with a particular interest in literary responses to political and social change. I am currently working on a monograph on the German idyll during this period. I have also published on the development of German literature in the context of the Reichsgründung. I teach widely across the German Studies ...
Reader in German Studies
I see myself as a medievalist with an extension into the sixteenth century, and as someone with a particular passion for teaching these still deeply relevant periods to modern undergraduates.
Emeritus Professor of German Studies
My main research interests lie in the literature, culture and society of Germany around the end of the eighteenth century.
Birmingham Fellow
Acting Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies
Sara Jones is a Birmingham Fellow working across the Colleges of Social Science and Arts and Law. Her current research analyses the political, social and cultural processes of remembering state socialist dictatorship.
Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy
Head of School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
Reader in European Intellectual History
I hold an MA and a doctorate in German and Philosophy from the University of Oxford. I was a Junior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford (1990-94) and a Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany (1994-95).
I was Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews for ten years before coming to Birmingham in 2005.
I have also held visiting ...
Austrian Lektorin
I joined the department as Austrian Lektorin (sent by the ÖAD - Austrian Academic Exchange Organisation) in September 2012 to help students to improve their language skills and support them in practicing German.
DAAD-Lektorin
Here at the University of Birmingham, I work to develop the language skills of our students and provide encouragement to each and everyone who is interested in the beautiful German country and language.
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Theory and German Studies
I am based in GermanStudies and also teach media and cultural studies. I have been at the University of Birmingham since 2004.
Emeritus Professor of German Studies
My research is on German literary and intellectual topics since the later nineteenth century, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht.
Teaching Fellow in German Studies
I teach German Language, Literature and History to First and Second Year students and am a Personal Tutor for students in all year groups. I also lecture to students of English in the Landmarks of European Literature course.
Honorary Professor of Modern German Studies
Wide ranging research interests in 19th and 20th century German culture, philosophy and politics, especially from the end of the First World War to the present. Has published books and essays on German literature and society post-1945, on the worker-culture movement of the Weimar Republic, on culture in the Third Reich, on protest and democracy from the 1960s to the 1980s and on the reception of ...
Lecturer in German Studies