Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Giles Harrington

Teaching Fellow in German

Dr Giles Harrington

0113 343 5194

Biography

I completed my MRes at the University of Leeds in 2005 and stayed on to complete my PhD study in 2009.  In 2007-8 I carried out fieldwork in relation to my thesis on German pop literature while based at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz.  I have worked as a freelance translator of academic research in the Arts and Humanities and teach on modules at all levels of undergraduate study.

I am an employability officer in the School of Modern Languages and enjoy creating job opportunities for our undergraduate and postgraduate students by developing new partnerships with business in Germany in the UK. In this role I work in tandem with the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Manchester region, Mr Mark Green, and Haribo GmbH (Dunhill Confectionary, Pontefract) to convene the German Business Student of the Year competition.


Teaching 2011-12

  • GERM1030 Core Language 1
  • GERM2040/2041 Applied German Language
  • GERM2310/2311 Politics, Society and Culture and the Berlin Republic
  • GERM3090/3091/3092 Advanced Translation
  • GERM3140 War Imagined

 Administrative responsibilities

  • Employability Officer
  • Residence Abroad Coordinator for Students of German
  • eRep for GRASS
  • Web editor

Research Interests

  • The literature of Christian Kracht
  • Pop literature since the 1980s
  • Konkrete Poesie and 'cut-up' montages since the 1960s
  • The novels of Arnold Stadler

Publications

'Homo-Mercedes and Heimatlosigkeit: Arnold Stadler's Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler', Focus on German Studies 13 (2006), 185-193.

Conference papers

  • 07.12.2007 'Recycling and Innovation in the Writing of Andreas Neumeister'. Innovation and Recycling in Post-Unification German Culture, University of Leeds, UK.
  • 25.11.2007 'Nach der Popmoderne. Politics and Ethics in the Work of Joachim Lottman and Christian Kracht'. Ethics and Justice after Postmodernism, University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, Germany.
  • 18.03.2007 'Recording Artists': The Author and the Art of Remix in Contemporary German Writing'. New Directions in Popular Culture: Discourse and Pleasure, University of Leeds, UK.

Conferences Organised

  • 12.12.2007 Co-organiser of AHRC-funded Postgraduate Conference Innovation and Recycling in Post-Unification German Culture, Society and Politics, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK.
  • 04.11.2006 40th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, University of Leeds (in conjunction with Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London