German staff
Peter Davies
Professor of Modern German Studies / Convenor for German
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+44 (0) 131 650 3632
Outline Biography
BA Hons (Manchester), Ph.D (Manchester)
- Chair of Modern German Studies
- Subject Area Convener for German
- Co-director of the research network ‘Holocaust Writing and Translation’
Research Interests
My research specialisms include:
- Holocaust writing and translation
- Myth, modernity and literature
- Myths of matriarchy in German culture
- Gender and the body
- German-language literature and culture, 1880-1945
I am happy to discuss supervision of topics in German, Holocaust writing, Translation Studies, comparative literature with German, myth and literature, gender and the body in the period 1880-1945.
Research activity
In 2004-5 I was a Research Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, conducting research into matriarchal myths in German-language culture.
From 2000-2003 I co-directed the AHRB Major Research Project “The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German Literature, 1930-1960” with Professor Stephen Parker and Dr Matthew Philpotts, Manchester
From 1998-2000 I was Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, conducting research into Stalinism and Literature in the GDR
Recent and current PhD topics supervised
- German and Austrian Romani writing and the Holocaust
- GDR literary responses to the 17 June 1953 uprising
- Memory and Heimat in the work of Jenny Erpenbeck and Monica Maron
- Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes
- Avant-garde manifesto
- Heiner Müller's democratic theatre
Publications
Publications list for Peter Davies
Supervision
Projects supervised by Peter Davies
Teaching
Taught postgraduate courses
- MSc in European Theatre
- MSc in Comparative Literature (Holocaust writing)
- MSc in European Studies (Memory and identity)
Undergraduate courses
- The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony (final year honours option)
- Literature and totalitarianism
- Modernism
- German literature, history and culture
This article was published on Oct 30, 2012