German Studies postgraduate community
There are currently (2017-2018) eight PhD students in German Studies; one student has just submitted their dissertation and another has recently been awarded their PhD. Many have international origins, having been attracted to Warwick German Studies from Germany and North America. Together, they use our wide-ranging staff expertise to the full by researching across the epochs, focussing on German and Austrian culture from 1770 to the present, working with different cultural media (literature, film, theatre, archicture etc.) and often adopting interdisciplinary and comparative modes. All students benefit from our lively and supportive postgraduate culture. They attend and present papers to the Warwick Workshop for Interdisciplinary German Studies; the students are funded from a variety of sources, including the AHRC and also the generous CADRE funding scheme; and across the faculty, CADRE ( the Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence) offers a wider framework of opportunities for developing skills and presenting research.
Current PhD students | |
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Tim Brockmann | A cultural history of the relationship between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism in FRG (1949-2005) |
Pia Deutsch | German national identity after 1990 and how it was constructed as well as negotiated in and by media. |
Katharina Forster | Contemporary German post-colonial and migrant literature in the tradition of the Bildungsroman. |
Michael Grass | |
Gerhild Krebs | Media, Performing Arts and Exile in 20th Century Germany and Britain - the Example of Multiple Artist Walter Rilla |
Hanna Elisabeth Schumacher | Posthuman worlds and subjectivity in science/speculative fiction. |
Yara Staets | |
Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh | William I as Imperial Germany's first emperor. |
Recently-completed PhDs | |
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Maria Roca Lizarazu | Maria has recently completed a PhD thesis on Holocaust remembrance in contemporary German- and Austrian-Jewish literature. |
Maria Hetzer | Performance of embodied memory and identity and GDR women's experience of the 'Wende'. |
Katharina Karcher | Katharina recently completed a PhD thesis on female violence in late twentieth-century German history and culture. She has since become an MHRA Research fellow in the School. |
Jeanine Tuschling | Jeanine completed a PhD on authorship and media in Elfriede Jelinek in 2011 and subsequently was a Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study. |
Brian Haman | Brian completed a PhD on representations of the journey in Romantic thought and literature, moved on to a Fellowship at the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study and is now a Postdoctoral Associate Fellow. |
Knut Langewand | Knut has recently completed a PhD thesis on state-related metaphors in Weimar Germany. |
Mario Slugan | Alfred Doeblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations. |