Ingrid Sharp

Senior Lecturer

Ingrid Sharp

0113 343 3509

Biography

Ingrid Sharp was born on the Isle of Wight and educated at schools in Germany and England (West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls and Worthing Sixth Form College).  She studied German and Philosophy at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and went on to complete a PGCE at the Language Teaching Centre, York. She taught English, French and German at Wantage School, before becoming Head of German at Queen Mary's Sixth Form College, Basingstoke.

In 1989 she joined the Department of German at Leeds where she was involved in a major revision of language provision. She was also a key mover in developing the Department's work on monitoring and evaluation of the year abroad. Her roles have included that of Admissions Tutor and Work Placement and Study Abroad Co-ordinator and she is now Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department. She was responsible for introducing the study of gender and women's history to the curriculum and is currently further developing her interest in gender and conflict resolution in Germany and Europe.

Teaching

Teaching experience has been broad, ranging from English, French, German and interdisciplinary classes (philosophy, cultural studies, international studies) at Secondary level to supervisory work on taught MA and MA by research in the areas of Cultural Studies (Gender), Applied Translation (Module co-ordinator), Anglo-German cultural relations and World Cinema. 

At undergraduate level, as well as designing, co-ordinating and teaching on a variety of language, historical, cultural and sociological modules, she has designed and delivered modules on gender relations at various stages in German history.

In 2008/09, she teaches in the following modules:

 Level

Subject
 Level 2       Gender, Culture and Representation in German History 1871-2000
 Level 3 Core German Language
 Level 3 Advanced Translation

Research Interests

Strands running through Ms Sharp's teaching, research and professional activities include an interest in gender relations, a strong interest in international connections and relationships, including a commitment to language learning and teaching and the exchange of ideas.

Always interested in women's history, gender relations and the representation of women in art, film, literature and the media, Ms Sharp's current research projects are in the area of gender and conflict in the context of the First World War, with publications, conference papers and scholarly activities in this field planned in the next few years. 

In 2005, she co-organised a major international conference on the Women's Movement in Wartime 1914-1919, which compared feminist approaches to the war in the major combatant nations and which formed the basis of an edited volume published in 2007.  This was followed up in 2008 with another highly international conference, Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923, from which a publication will appear in 2010.

Publications

Books

  • Fell, A.S. and Sharp, I.E. (ed.) (2007) The Women's Movement in Wartime. International Perspectives 1914-1919. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Sharp, I.E. (ed.) (2003) Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns. . Routledge. 5 Volume set with introductory essays.

Chapters in books/Journal articles

  • Sharp, I.E. (2007) 'Blaming the Women: Women's 'Responsibility' for the First World War' . In: A.S. Fell and I.E. Sharp (eds.) The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.86-109
  • Sharp, I.E. (2006) 'Gender Relations in Weimar Berlin' . In: C. Schoenfeld, C. Finnan (ed.) Practicing Modernity. Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic, , Königshausen und Neumann
  • Sharp, I.E. (2006) 'Dangerous Women: Woman as Sexual Criminal in Weimar Germany.' In: Helen Chambers (ed.) Violence, Culture and Identity in Germany and Austria, Peter Lang, pp.203-224.
  • Sharp, I.E. (2004) 'The Sexual Unification of Germany' . Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13(3), pp.348-365
  • Sharp, I.E. (2003) 'Riding the Tiger: Ambivalent Representations of the New Woman in the Periodicals of the Weimar Republic.' In: M. Beetham, A. Heilmann (ed.) New Woman Hybridities: Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880-1930, Routledge, pp.118-142.
  • Sharp, I.E. (2001) "'Frauen und Fraß': German Women in Wartime" . In: Peter Liddle, John Bourne and Ian Whitehead (eds.) The Great World War 1914-45 (Volume 2), 2 , HarperCollins , pp.74-94.
  • Sharp, I.E. (2000) 'At a Moral Crossroads: Vom Leben getötet and the Regulation of Sexuality in the Weimar Republic.' . In: Christiane Schoenfeld (ed.) Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in German Literature, Camden House, pp.191-210.

Selected Conferences

  • September 2008 Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923, Hinsley Hall, Leeds. Co-organisor and speaker.
  • June 2007 Paper accepted for 'The Space Between' Society on Kaethe Kollwitz and Otto Dix's respresentations of the First World War, June 7th -10th, Maryland US.
  • September 2002 Paper: 'Völkerversöhnende Frauenarbeit: Women's work for peace between the wars'  Women in Europe Between the Wars, Aston University.
  • December 2001: Vienna meets Berlin: Culture in the Metropolis between the Wars.   Paper on media constructions of the New Woman. 
  • November 2001  Academic Organiser and speaker. Vienna meets Berlin: Culture in the Metropolis between the Wars. Women in Berlin and Vienna Between the Wars, Anna Freud Centre, London.
  • November 2001: Organiser of the Women in German Studies Annual Conference.
  • June 2001 Paper: 'Dangerous Women: Female Criminality in the Weimar Republic' at Dangerous Representations, School of English and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton.
  • July 2000: WIGS international conference on Myths and Mythmaking.  Paper: 'Mythmaking and the Great War'.
  • July 2000: The New Woman in the Periodicals, Manchester.  Paper: Riding the Tiger: Ambivalent Representations of the New Woman in the Periodicals of the Weimar Republic.
  • November 1999 'Dangerous Women: Woman as Sexual Criminal in the Weimar Republic' Women in German Studies (WIGS) annual conference, Bristol.
  • June 1999: New Hampshire Symposium, Conway, New Hampshire,USA 'The Sexual Unification of Germany'

Editing work

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue of Minerva Journal of Women and War, introduction, editing work and translation of Annika Wilmers' article 'Pacifism, Nationalism and Internationalism in the French and German Women's Movements during the First World War.' At Press 2007.
  • With Alison Fell The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919 Palgrave April 2007
  • With Jane Jordan Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns, Routledge, 2003.

Book Reviews

  • September 2007 Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Ed. by Angela Kershaw and Angela Kimyongür. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007, Modern Language Review
  • Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Deviance and Respectability University of Chicago Press 1998 for Women's International Studies Forum August 1999.
  • Mary Fulbrook: German National Identity after the Holocaust. Polity Press 1999 for Journal of European Area Studies, September 1999.
    Research Awards
  • September 2005: BA conference grant awarded to support 'The Gentler Sex' conference (with Alison Fell) on international feminist responses to the First World War.
  • April 2004: British Academy Small Research British Academy grant of awarded for research in German archives on German Women's Response to the First World War.
  • 1999 AHRC research leave and small research grant to support work on Josephine Butler.