Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Jane Wilkinson

Lecturer in German

Dr Jane Wilkinson

0133 34 33511

Biography

I completed an MA Honours degree in German and French at the University of Glasgow in 1999 and stayed on in the German Department to do my PhD, completed in 2003.  Before joining the Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies here in Leeds in January 2008, I worked for a year as Gastlektorin at the University of Linz in Austria, for 2 years as Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University, and for 2 years as Lecturer at Aberystwyth University.

Teaching 20011-12

Level Subject
Level 1 GERM1070 Approaching German Culture (coordinator)
Level 2 GERM2040/2041/2042 Applied German Language (co-coordinator with Giles Harrington)
Level 2  GERM2310/2311 Politics, Culture and Society in the Berlin Republic (coordinator) 
Level 3 GERM3040 Borders and Border Crossings (coordinator)
Level 3 GERM3110 Dissertation

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome expressions of interest from individuals wishing to pursue a Masters by Research or a PhD in any of the following areas: Contemporary German-speaking drama or theatre; borders and border-crossings in contemporary German-speaking culture; cultural representations and constructions of place and identity in the German-speaking world.

Administrative Responsibilities 2011-12

  • Examinations and Assessment Tutor for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Research Interests

  • Border cultures and border theory.
  • Contemporary German-speaking theatre and drama.
  • Migration and transnational experience in Germanic culture, particularly theatre and drama.
  • Languages and Intercultural Communication.

Current Research Projects

I am currently at the start of a new research project exploring representations of migration and transnational experience in contemporary German-speaking drama and theatre.  This project builds on previous work on cross-border cultural events and performances at the German-Polish Border and at Lake Constance.

Publications

Monographs

  • Wilkinson, Jane (2007) Performing the Local and the Global: The Theatre Festivals of Lake Constance. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Journal Articles

  • Wilkinson, Jane (2010) 'Staging Liminality in the German-Polish-Czech Borderland: The Trinational Theatre Production Dreiland'. German Life and Letters 63:1, pp. 88-104.
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2009) 'Building Literary Bridges across the Oder'. Seminar 45:3, pp. 316-335.
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2006) 'Writing Home: Martin Walser's Ein fliehendes Pferd as Anti-Tourist Literature'. Tourism and Cultural Change 4:3, pp. 177-193.
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2006) 'The Others within the Fortress Walls: The Place of the European Foreigner in Contemporary German Drama.' Third Text 20:6, pp. 755-764.
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2005) 'Staging Swissness: Inter- and Intracultural Theatre Translation'.  Language and Intercultural Communication 5:, pp. 72-85.

Book Chapters

  • Wilkinson, Jane (2012 forthcoming) The Intercultural Speaker and the Acquisition of Global/Intercultural Competence. In J. Jackson (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. London: Routledge.
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2010) 'Discrepant Narratives: The Impact of Transborder Theatre Festivals on Communities at the German-Polish Border'. In R. Braun and L. Marvin (eds) Cultural Impact in the German Context: Studies in Transmission, Reception and Influence. Rochester NY: Camden House, pp. 188-209.
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2009) 'Die haerteste Sprachgrenze Europas? Negotiating the LInguistic Divide in Theatres on the German-Polish Border'. In J. Carl and P. Stevenson (eds) Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe: The German Language in a Multilingual Space. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 73-95
  • Wilkinson, Jane (2002) 'Passports and the German In A. Phipps (ed) Contemporary German Cultural Studies.  London: Arnold, pp 17-39.

Recent and Planned Presentations

Conference Papers

  • April 2010: 'European Borderlands as Multilingual Spaces: Representing "old" and "new" Schengen'. New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe, Dubrovnik, Croatia (with Kristine Horner).
  • March 2010: 'Constructing the German-Polish Borderland as Transnational Space in Literature and Theatre'. Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism WUN conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
  • January 2010: 'Theatrical Constructions of Border Identities: Case Studies from the German-Polish Border.' Borders and Identities Conference (BIC), Newcastle, England.
  • September 2008: 'Theatrical Negotiations of the German-Polish Border.' Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders (the biannual European meeting of the Association for Borderland Studies, ABS), Barents Institute, Kirkenes, Norway.
  • July 2008: 'Discrepant Narratives: The (Non-)Impact of Transborder Theatre Festivals on Audiences at the German-Polish Border. Impact (20th anniversary conference of Women in German Studies), University of Liverpool, England.
  • June 2008: 'Welcome to Reality: Representations of (In)Hospitality in Films from the German-Polish Border'. Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, WUN conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
  • September 2007: 'Creating Cultural Regions on the German-Polish Border.' Regions and Regionalisms, Lancaster University, England.
  • July 2007: 'Negotiating the Linguistic Divide in Theatres on the German-Polish Border'.  Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe, University of Southampton, England.
  • August 2006: 'Performing Between the Local and the Global: Die Bregenzer Festspiele at Lake Constance'.  Performing the Local and the Global, 15th World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Helsinki, Finland.

Invited Papers

  • February 2010: ' Crossing Popular Cultures: Transborder Street Theatre in the German-Polish Borderland'. Popular Cultures Research Network, University of Leeds, England.
  • June 2009: 'The Border Crosser as Intercultural Speaker'. Reimagining the Intercultural Speaker Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland.
  • March 2009: 'Theatrical Negotiations of the German-Polish Border', Department of European Languages and Cultures,University of Aberystwyth, Wales.
  • July 2008: 'Negotiation the Linguistic Divide in Theatres on the German-Polish Border, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, England.

Research-related Activities

  • Chair of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2008-2010.
  • Member of the editorial board for the journal Language and Intercultural Communication.