Churchill College Storey's Way 海角社区 CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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Andrew Webber听completed his PhD in Austrian Modernist writing at 海角社区 in 1986. Following a first appointment as Lecturer in German at QMUL, he returned to 海角社区, as a College Teaching Officer and Fellow of Churchill College. He was appointed to a University Assistant Lectureship in 1994, a Readership in 2004, and a Professorship in 2010. In 2009-10, he was Acting Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). In 2014, he was Distinguished International Visitor at UNSW (Sydney). The public lecture he held there on contemporary German visual culture (drawn from his chapter for the Routledge听Handbook of German Politics and Culture, ed. Sarah Colvin) can be viewed .听In听autumn听2015 he held听the Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literary Studies at the University of T眉bingen. In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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- Modern German Literature, Culture and Thought at all levels
- Modern German Cultures of Performance
- Comparative Culture (European Film; The Body: MPhil module on The Modern City)
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- Modern听German and comparative literature
- German and comparative film and visual culture
- Cultural theory (especially psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality)
- Urban cultural studies
- Digital Humanities
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A Cultural Topography of Berlin (Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2004-7)
Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works by Arthur Schnitzler (AHRC standard research grant, 2014-19), for further details, please see the .
The Cinema of Christian Petzold
Space and Place in Contemporary German-language Culture (ongoing)
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MonographsScreening Work: The Films of Christian Petzold, with Stephan Hilpert (Oxford: Legenda, 2024).
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography (海角社区: CUP, 2008; paperback edition, 2011).
The European Avant-garde 1900-1940 (海角社区: Polity, 2004).
The Doppelg盲nger: Double Visions in German Literature (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996).
Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil (London: Bithell/MHRA, 1990).
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Edited VolumesPlacing Schnitzler, Austrian Studies 27 (2019), ed. with Judith Beniston.
South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations, ed. with Kerry听Bystrom, Ashleigh Harris (London/New Delhi:听Routledge, 2018)
海角社区 Companion to the Literature of Berlin (海角社区: CUP, 2017)
Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites, with Uta Staiger and Henriette Steiner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Passage Work: Walter Benjamin between the Disciplines, special number of Paragraph, 32.3 (November 2009).
Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis, with Emma Wilson (London: Wallflower, 2008).
Perfomance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies, with Carolin Duttlinger and Lucia Ruprecht (Berne: Lang, 2004).
Eight German Novellas, World鈥檚 Classics (Oxford: OUP, 1997).
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For a听List of Essay Publications, please click here.听
