ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú

Overview

Biography

Before working for ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú, I was employed as Head of German at Collingham College in Kensington and taught and assessed PGCE candidates at Bromley College in Kent. I then completed my PhD at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú and my dissertation was published for the MHRA Bithell Series. It questions the previously-accepted origins of the reception of English literature in Germany. Since then, I have been lecturing for our department on a wide variety of topics, including German language, business German, literature, history, philosophy, translation, film studies, and literary theory at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

Office hours

To arrange an appointment, please contact me via email (p.damrau@bbk.ac.uk)

Administrative responsibilities

• Chair of the Languages Committee
• Language Coordinator for all German language modules
• Program Director for BA Language and/with Management
• Study Abroad Coordinator for Spain, Germany, and Italy
• Program Director for BA Language Teaching and Languages
• Academic Misconduct Panel Chair

Honours and awards

• Max Kade Award for best article of the year in German Quarterly American Association of Teachers of German, February 2009

Research

Research overview

My interests are in multidisciplinary research and analysis of the literary development of German language and literature. Some of the main areas include women’s writing of the 18th century, devotional literature, and Anglo-German cultural relations, and I have published related articles in international journals including German Life and Letters, German Quarterly, German Studies Review, Euphorion, and Oxford German Studies. I was awarded the Max Kade Award for best article of the year in German Quarterly and have presented papers at universities in Germany and the UK, for example, on religious melancholy (Kings College London) and cultural transfer in the early modern period (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg). 

Current research projects include: 

• ‘Mary Astell – die ‚erste englische Feministin‘ in Deutschland’ (accepted for publication in Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift)

• ‘Johann Martin Miller: Sigevart, a Tale’, in The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel, 1660-1820, ed. by April London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (accepted for publication)

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú:

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I have been supervising BA, MA, and PhD students and welcome enquiries from prospective students who are interested in conducting research in similar areas to my own. In addition, I have also been recruiting, supervising, and assessing language teachers in the department.

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

• ANDREW NASH

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Jan 2020 to Feb 2020

  Title of thesis:

  Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931) and Seventeenth Century German Literature

  Description:

  My research will examine the writings of Friedrich Gundolf, a literary critic and member of the circle surrounding the poet Stefan George, on German seventeenth century literature. In addition to a handful of short books, there is a great deal of unpublished material in the form of notes for lectures that Gundolf gave at Heidelberg in the 1920s. Besides placing all this in the context of German literary criticism, I will be looking at wider issues of poetics, philosophy and aesthetics in the pre- and post- Great War years. The  discussion will be extended beyond Germany; in England, critics such as TS Eliot and FR Leavis were also turning to the seventeenth century and it is hoped that illuminating comparisons can be made.

  Awarded:

  2024

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Interrogating the Self
• Representations of Gender, Love and Sexuality (Level 5)
• Culture and Text: 'Imagined Communities'
• German 5
• Memory and History
• The European Novella (Level 5)
• Studying Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages
• Doing Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics

Publications

Business and community

Services

• Other
  

  As Knowledge Transfer Coordinator, I have facilitated and/or taught ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s tailor-made language courses for cultural organizations including the Royal Opera House and Wigmore Hall and international companies such as Ricoh Europe and Chapman Black.

  I also participated as a speaker in public events for Keynote Educational.