Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Ingo Cornils

Senior Lecturer / SMLC Director of Student Education

Dr Ingo Cornils

0113 343 3513

Biography

A native of Schleswig-Holstein, Ingo Cornils was educated at the Theodor Mommsen Schule in Bad Oldesloe and Belmond High School, Iowa. After his Zivildienst he attended the University of Hamburg (First Staatsexamen/MA; PhD) and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Following teacher training (Second Staatsexamen/PGCE) and a stint in advertising, he came to England in 1987 as DAAD Lektor at the Leeds Metropolitan University from 1987 until 1990. At the University of Leeds, he worked as Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of German and the Language Centre (as Director of Language Centre Modules) from 1990. He joined the Department of German full-time in August 1999, served as Head of Department 2002-2005, and as Head of the newly merged Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies (GRASS) from 2007-2010. In 2011 he was appointed Director of Student Education for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

He has organised three international conferences: Hermann Hesse Today (with Osman Durrani; London 2002), Uwe Timm in Perspective (with Frank Finlay; Leeds 2004), and Memories of '68 - an international perspective (with Sarah Waters, Alan O'Leary and Lan Yang; Leeds 2008).

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Teaching

A trained teacher, he has helped to set up the institution-wide language programme at Leeds which offers general and specialised language tuition from ab initio to advanced level. For many years he taught German Current Affairs in their Political Context, an innovative lecture course involving task-focussed group work and extensive use of a custom-built German news archive. More recently, he redeveloped the SMLC module 'IT for Language Students' and was awarded a grant from the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund to develop the German Dissertation module so that students approach the dissertation as a research project in its own right. Finished projects were presented at a student-led conference and in an e-journal.

In 2011/2012, he teaches in the following modules:

Level Subject
Level 1 Introduction to Modern Germany
Level 2 Berliner Republik
Level 3 German Student Movement
Level 3 German for Professional Purposes
Level 3 Dissertation
Level M MA Applied Translation Studies German > English

Research Supervision

Ingo Cornils is interested in supervising suitably qualified candidates who want to pursue research in the area of utopian thought, be it political, romantic or fantastic. His particular expertise is in the literary representation of the German Student Movement, the history of German Science Fiction from Kurd Laßwitz to Frank Schätzing and Andreas Eschbach, and the works and influence of Hermann Hesse.

 

Research

His research focusses on the complex relationship between political, utopian and fantastic thought, with a particular interest in Romanticism, the construction and representation of the German Student Movement, German Science Fiction, and in the works of Kurd Lasswitz, Hermann Hesse and Uwe Timm.

a) Books

b) Articles / Chapters in Books

  • "Vergangenheitsbewältigung in den Tagesthemen", in: ALL German Teaching (The German Journal of the Association for Language Learning), No 14, December 1996, pp. 6-11, 1996, ISSN 0953-4822

  • "The German Student Movement. Legend and Legacy", in: Debatte (Review of Contemporary German Affairs), Vol.4 / No.2, pp. 36-62, 1996, ISSN 0965-156X

  • "Problems of Visualisation. The Image of the Unknown in German Science Fiction", in: Jeff Morrison / Florian Krobb (eds.), Text into Image: Image into Text, pp.287-295, (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Vol.20), Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997, ISBN 90-420-0152-6

  • "'The Struggle Continues'. Rudi Dutschke's Long March", in: Gerard J. DeGroot (ed.), Student Protest. The Sixties and After, pp 100-114, London and New York: Longman, 1998, ISBN 0-582-35619-9

  • "A Romantic in Ratzeburg: Coleridge's debt to North German Provinz", in: Richard Byrn (ed.), Cousins at One Remove, (Anglo-German Studies 2), pp. 27-41, Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 1998, ISBN 0-901286-98-2

  • "Looking back: Piwitt, Rothschilds and the German Student Movement", in: David Basker (ed.), Hermann Peter Piwitt, (Contemporary German Writers Series), pp. 47-64, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7083-1665-4

  • "Romantic Relapse? The literary representation of the German Student Movement", in: Chris Hall / David Rock (eds.), German Studies Towards the Millenium. Selected papers from the Conference of University Teachers of German, University of Keele, September 1999, pp. 107-123, Bern/Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang, 2000, ISBN 3-906765-65-2

  • "Alles Kaputt? Visions of the End in West German and Austrian Science Fiction", in: Foundation (the international review of science fiction), Vol.30 / No.82, Summer 2001, pp. 57-74, Science Fiction Foundation, ISSN 0306-4964258; reprinted in: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol.218, edited by Thomas L. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, 67-77. Detroit: Gale, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4144-3413-1

  • "Successful failure? The impact of the German Student Movement on the Federal Republic of Germany", in: Stuart Taberner / Frank Finlay (eds.), Recasting German Identity. Culture, Politics and Literature in the Berlin Republic, pp. 105-122, Rochester: Camden House 2002, ISBN 1-57113-244-9

  • "Long Memories. The German Student Movement in Recent Fiction", in: German Life and Letters, Issue 56:1, January 2003, pp. 89-101, Blackwell, 2003, ISSN 0016-8777

  • "The Martians are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Scientific Progress in H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Kurd Laßwitz's Auf zwei Planeten", in: Comparative Literature, Vol.55, No.1, Winter 2003, pp. 24-41, University of Oregon 2003, ISSN 0010-4124

  • "Writing the revolution: The Literary Representation of the German Student Movement as Counter-Culture", in: Steve Giles / Maike Oergel (eds.), Counter-Cultures in Germany and Central Europe. From Sturm und Drang to Baader-Meinhof, pp. 295-314, Bern: Peter Lang 2003, ISBN 3-03910-007-6

  • "Folgenschwere Schüsse. Die Kugeln auf Benno Ohnesorg und Rudi Dutschke im Spiegel der deutschen Literatur", in: Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Jahrgang XXXV - Heft 2, 2003, pp. 55-73, Bern: Peter Lang 2005, ISSN 0449-5233

  • "Ein Glasperlenspiel im Internet. Hesse lesen im globalen Zeitalter", in: Andreas Solbach (Hg.), Hermann Hesse und die literarische Moderne, pp. 399-413, st 3609, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2004, ISBN 3-518-45609-1

  • "The Martians are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Kurd Laßwitz's Auf zwei Planeten", in: Fred Bridgham (ed.), The First World War as a Clash of Cultures, pp. 137-154, Rochester: Camden House 2006, ISBN 1571133402

  • "Uwe Timm, der heilige Georg und die Entsorgung der Theorie", in: Frank Finlay / Ingo Cornils (eds.), (Un-)erfüllte Wirklichkeit. Neue Studien zu Uwe Timms Werk, pp. 55-71, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3244-6

  • "Reisen in Zeit und Raum. Die Renaissance der deutschen Science Fiction", in: Ingo Cornils (ed.), Utopie, Fantasy und Science Fiction in Deutschland, special edition of literatur für leser, 29.Jahrgang, Nr. 4/06, pp. 275-290, Frankfurt a.M., Peter Lang 2007, ISSN 0343-1657

  • "Literary Reflections on '68", in: Stuart Taberner (ed.), Contemporary German Fiction. Writing in the Berlin Republic, pp. 91-107, Cambridge: CUP 2007, ISBN-13: 9780521860789

  • with Gerrit-Jan Berendse, "Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism", in: Gerrit-Jan Berendse / Ingo Cornils (eds.), Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (German Monitor), pp. 9-20, Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2391-8

  • "Joined at the hip? The representation of the German Student Movement and left-wing German terrorism in recent literature", in: Gerrit-Jan Berendse / Ingo Cornils (eds.), Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (German Monitor), pp. 137-155, Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2391-8

  • "Hermann Hesse und die Elite(n)", in: Michael Limberg (ed.), "Die gefährliche Lust, unerschrocken zu denken." Das Menschenbild bei Hermann Hesse, Stuttgart: Klett 2008, pp. 71-90

  • "From Outsider to Global Player - Hermann Hesse in the Twenty-First Century", in: Ingo Cornils (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse, pp 1-16, Rochester, Camden House 2009, ISBN 978-1-57113-330-4

  • "Utopian Moments: Memory Culture and Cultural Memory of the German Student Movement", in: Ingo Cornils / Sarah Waters (eds.), Memories of 1968. International Perspectives (Cultural History and Literary Imagination Vol.16), pp. 281-298, Bern, Peter Lang 2010, ISBN 978-3-03911-931-8

  • "Denkmalsturz. The German Student Movement and German Colonialism", in: Michael Perraudin / Jürgen Zimmerer (eds.), German Colonialism and National Identity, pp. 197-212, New York: Routledge 2010, ISBN: 978-0-415-96477-7

  • "Furchtbare Symmetrien. Romantische Verwandtschaften im Werk der Dichter-Maler Hermann Hesse und William Blake", in: Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies. Volume 46, Issue 1 (2011), pp. 149-166, ISSN (Online) 1613-0642, ISSN (Print) 0003-7982

  • "Hermann Hesses orientalische Sinnlichkeit", in: Volker Wehdeking (ed.), Licht aus dem Osten? Hermann Hesses transkulturelle Orientbezüge, pp. 213-235, Marburg: Tectum Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-8288-2737-0

c) Recent Papers

  • "Hermann Hesses Verhältnis zu den (neuen) Medien" at the Silser Hesse-Tage in Switzerland (6/09) [ > Hesse Jahrbuch 5]

  • "Into the Heart of Darkness. Christian Kracht and Swiss Colonialism." Paper for theLeeds-Swansea Symposium on Empire in Leeds (07/10)

  • "The German Student Movement - Research Perspectives", for the Protest Movements after '1968' TRAMS research seminar in Copenhagen (09/10)

  • "Der Schnee von gestern ist die Lawine von morgen. Utopian, dystopian and subversive strategies in recent German Alternate History fictions." Paper for the Association for Research in the Fantastic Conference Fremde Welten in Hamburg (10/10)

  • "Between Bauhaus and Bügeleisen. The iconic style of Raumpatrouille (1966)", for the Alternative Worlds seminar series at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London (04/11) 

  • Hermann Hesse und die englische Romantik, for the International Hesse Conference in Berne (03/12)

d) Recent Reviews

  • Marco Schickling, Hermann Hesse als Literaturkritiker, Heidelberg 2005, in: MLR 102.2, 2007

  • Martin Klimke / Joachim Scharloth (eds.), 1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung, Stuttgart 2007, in: MLR 104.1, 2009

  • Dina Brandt, Der deutsche Zukunftsroman 1918-1945, Tübingen 2007, in: MLR 104.1, 2009

  • Jürgen Below, Hermann Hesse Bibliographie. Sekundärliteratur 1899-2007, Berlin / New York 2007, in: Colloquia Germanica 40 (3-4), 2007, pp. 343-346

  • Barry Stephenson, Veneration and Revolt. Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism, Wilfrid Laurier UP 2009, in: MLR 106.1, 2011

  • 'Es ging am Anfang nicht leicht mit uns': Hermann Hesse und Jakob Schaffner im Briefwechsel 1905-1933. Ed. by Christof Wamister. Zurich: Chronos. 2009, in: MLR 106.2, 2011

  • B. Davis / W. Mausbach / M. Klimke / C. MacDougall (eds.), Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s, New York / Oxford 2010, in: MLR 106.3, 2011

  • Mauro Ponzi (ed.), Klassische Moderne. Ein Paradigma des 20. Jahrhunderts, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2010, in: MLR 106.3, 2011

e) Current Research Projects

  • Writing the Revolution. The construction of '1968' in Germany (book project)

  • The Matrix Preloaded: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Welt am Draht (1973), for a volume 'Abendländische Apokalyptik' 

  • Editor, with Ricarda Vidal (London), of a volume 'Alternative Worlds'

     

  • The Hyperion Connection (Friedrich Hölderlin, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Richard Cowper, Dan Simmons)