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Tara Talwar Windsor is Postdoctoral Research Associate in EU Horizon/UKRI project 鈥楾he Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe鈥� and co-leads the 海角社区-based research group 鈥楥ultural Production and Social Justice鈥�. From 2021-23, she was Schr枚der Research Associate in German at 海角社区 with a special remit for Equality and Diversity in German Studies. She specialises in German literary, cultural and intellectual politics from the early 20th century to the present, with particular interest in the role played by creative writers as public intellectuals. Before taking up her post in 海角社区, Dr Windsor was Research Fellow in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham and has also held positions as Research Associate in Modern History at the Bergische Universit盲t Wuppertal and Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) Essen, as Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University and as Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century Continental European History at Trinity College Dublin. She completed her BA (2006), MPhil (2008) and PhD (2013) at the University of Birmingham and was doctoral research fellow at the Institute for European History in Mainz from 2011 to 2012. She has received research awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Historical Institute in Paris and the German Academic Exchange Service.
- Alternative epistemologies
- German language and literature
- German-English translation
- Translation Studies
- Contemporary German society, politics and memory
- Modern German, European and International History
- German cultural and literary politics (20th century to present)
- Cultural production and social justice
- Exile and (post-)migration
- Creative intellectuals, civil society and the state
- History of gender and emotions
- The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (UKRI/Horizon, 海角社区, 2023-2026): https://caponeu.eu/
- Knowing the Secret Police: Secrecy and Knowledge in East German Society (University of Birmingham, 2019-2021):听https://research.ncl.ac.uk/secretsstasi/
- Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order (Institute for German and European Studies, Birmingham, 2019-2021) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/research/projects/exile-fascist-germany-spain.aspx
- Societies under German Occupation: Experiences and Everyday Life in World War II (Bergische Universit盲t Wuppertal / KWI Essen, 2013-2015): http://www.societies-under-german-occupation.com/
- Dichter, Denker, Diplomaten: German Writers and Cultural Diplomacy after the First World War (doctoral thesis, 2013)
- 2024. 鈥楽chwarze deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur 鈥� Radikale Vielfalt & Kaleidoskopische 脰ffentlichkeit鈥�, in Sharon Dodua Otoo, Patricia Eckermann & Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (eds.), Resonanzen. Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival. Eine Dokumentation (Berlin: Literarische Diverse).
- 2024. 鈥楢 Woman Between Exiles: Gender, Emotions and Non-Conformity in Irmgard Keun鈥檚 Private and Fictional Writings, 1933-1936鈥� in Elisenda Marcer (ed.), Culture in Exile: Comparative Perspectives on Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 97-123.
- 2024. 鈥楨pistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters, and Solidarity with the 鈥淲omxn, Life, Freedom鈥� Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany鈥� in Selma Rezgui, Laura M. Sturtz & Tara T. Windsor (eds.) Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions (Rochester NY: Camden House), pp. 209-240.
- 2024. 鈥業ntroduction鈥�, with Laura Marie Sturtz & Selma Rezgui, in Selma Rezgui, Laura M. Sturtz & Tara T. Windsor (eds.) Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions (Rochester NY: Camden House), pp. 1-33.
- 2024. 鈥業ntroduction: Literature, Politics, Possibility鈥�, with Sarah Colvin, German Life & Letters, 77:1, 1-9.
- 2024.听 '"Visionen vom idealen Geschichte-Schreiben und Geschichte-Machen鈥�: Epistemic (In)Justice and Insurrection in Sharon Dodua Otoo鈥檚 Historical and Memory Activism鈥�, German Life & Letters. 77:1, 10-31.
- 2022. 鈥楲iterature as Knowledge: Samizdat and Underground Revelation鈥�, with Sara Jones, in Aoife N铆 Chroidhe谩in (ed.) Dangerous Creations: Papers from a Roundtable Discussion (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library), pp. 24-33.
- 2021. 鈥楨xtended Arm of Reich Foreign Policy? Literary Internationalisms, Cultural Diplomacies and the First German PEN Club in the Weimar Republic鈥�, Contemporary European History, 30:2, 181-197 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777320000600.听
- 2020. 鈥楨mpire, Authorship and V枚lkisch Fairy Tales: Hans Friedrich Blunck and the Re-invention of Tradition after World War I鈥�, Oxford German Studies, 49:4, 363-379 https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2020.1840814.听
- 2020. 鈥楢ftermath: German Culture in the Wake of World War I鈥�, with Catherine Smale, Oxford German Studies, 49:4, 329-335 https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2020.1840809.听
- 2020. 鈥楳arginalized Memories & Multi-layered Narratives of the Great War in Kamila Shamsie鈥檚 A God in Every Stone (2014)鈥�, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 56:2, 229-246 https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa005.听
- 2018. 鈥樷�淭he domain of the young as the generation of the future鈥�: Student Agency and Anglo-German Exchange after the Great War鈥� in Marie-Eve Chagnon & Tomas Irish (eds.), The Academic World in the Era of the Great War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 163鈥�187 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95266-3_8.听
- 2014. 鈥楤etween Cultural Conflict and Cultural Contact: German Writers and Cultural Diplomacy in the Aftermath of the First World War鈥� in Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton & Pierre Purseigle (eds.), Aftermath - Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918鈥�1945鈥�1989 (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 109鈥�127.
- 2014. 鈥楻ekindling Contact: Anglo-German Academic Exchange after the First World War鈥� in Heather Ellis & Ulrike Kirchberger (eds.), Anglo-German Scholarly Relations in the Long Nineteenth Century (Leiden: Brill), pp. 212鈥�231.
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