Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Catriona Firth

Lecturer in German

Dr Catriona Firth

Biography

I completed a BA Hons in French and German at Durham University in 2004 where I stayed on to do my MA by Research (2004-06) and my PhD, completed in 2010. Before joining the department in Leeds in 2011, I worked for 1 year as a Teaching Fellow at Bristol University and spent a year as a Research Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses in Berlin.

 

Teaching

· GERM 1070 Approaching German Culture

· GERM 1130 German Academic Practice

· GERM 2700 Freedom and Control

· GERM 2400 Gender, Culture and Representation

· GERM 3030 Core Language 3

· GERM 3110 Final Year Dissertation

 

Administrative Responsibilities 2011-12

· Co-coordinator of Students as Scholars in GRASS

· Co-coordinator of GRASS research seminars

 

Research Interests

· Cinematic representations of terrorism

· Cultural memories of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)

· Post-1945 Austrian literature and film

· Film adaptations

 

Publications

Edited Volume

· with J. J. Long and Philip Bolton, Gerhard Fritsch, Special Issue of Modern Austrian Literature, 43:4 (2009).

Journal Articles

· 'Silencing the Provincial Other: Focalisation, Identification and Power in Franz Innerhofer's Schöne Tage', German Life and Letters, 64:4 (2011), 570-87.

· '"Die leere Mitte": Narrative Desire and Loss in Moos auf den Steinen', Modern Austrian Literature, 43:4 (2009), 47-67.

 

Book Chapter

· 'The Concealed Curator: Constructed Authenticity in Uli Edel's Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex' (Toronto University Press). Forthcoming.

 

Reviews

· with Sara Jones, 'German Literature 1945-Present', in A Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 72 (2012), 432-58.

· Review of Jay Julian Rosellini, Haider, Jelinek and the Austrian Culture Wars (CreateSpace, 2009), in Austrian Studies, 18 (2011), 211-12.

· with J. J. Long. Review of Stefan Alker, Das andere nicht zu kurz kommen lassen (Braumüller, 2007), in Austrian Studies, 16 (2008), 226-28.

Translations

· Wolfgang Bauer, Foyer (Vienna: Thomas Sessler, Forthcoming 2012).

· Ute Eskildsen, 'Street and Studio', Photoworks, 10 (2008).

· Joachim Schmidt, 'Belo Horizonte', Photoworks, 9 (2007).

· Joachim Schmidt, 'Virginity Gone Astray', Source: The Photographic Review, 51 (2007).

Public Lecture

· 26 February 2009: 'The Violence of Visual Anthropology in Gerhard Roth's Der Stille Ozean and its Filmic Adaptation'. Sylvia Naish Student Lecture, IGRS, London.

 

Conference Papers

· 29 May 2011: 'The Concealed Curator: Constructed Authenticity and the Process of Adaptation in Uli Edel's Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex'. 'The Past on Display: Museums, Film, Musealisation', York University, Toronto.

· 14 April 2011: 'Generic Conflict: The Terrorist Thriller in Contemporary German Cinema'. Annual Conference of the Association for German Studies, London.

· 23 May 2010: 'Silencing the Provincial Other: Franz Innerhofer's Schöne Tage'. 'Überkreuzungen': Annual Symposium of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, Vienna.

· 4 June 2009: 'Focalisation, Identification and Power in Franz Innerhofer's Schöne Tage'. Sixth International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature, IGRS, London.

· 5 June 2008: 'Mise-en-abyme as Transmitter of Memory in Robert Schindel's Gebürtig (Novel and Film)'. Fifth International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature. IGRS, London.

· 27 April 2007: 'Provocation, Politics and the Press: Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz'. Workshop on Theatre and Politics in the Second Austrian Republic, IGRS, London.