Research
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, German at Leeds was ranked equal second amongst German departments in the UK.
The Department is internationally renowned for its research into the German-speaking world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including literature, film, politics and society, the politics of language, gender studies, globalisation, border studies, and transnationalism.
We have attracted significant funding from the AHRC, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, German state and city foundations, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Goethe-Institut.
Postgraduates from the UK, Germany and beyond are attracted by our high-quality publications - see individual staff pages - vibrant research environment and impressive range of conferences, seminars, and knowledge transfer activities.
Coming up...
- Timetable of Research Seminars
- In the echo of a shadow - art and trauma with Henry Tietzsch-Tyler, 25 November 2009
- 'German Cinema since 2000'. PGR symposium, 30 November 2009
- Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective, 2009-10
Impact
Some recent examples of the broader impact of our research are listed below.
- Professor Cooke talks to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Ostalgie
- Professors Paul Cooke and Frank Finlay and Dr Chris Homewood discuss Edgar Reitz's Heimat at the Leeds International Film Festival
- Dr Jane Wilkinson organises ‘The Intercultural Writer’
- Dr Helen Finch debates 'Art and Trauma' with Henry Tietzsch-Tyler, Leverhulme Artist in Residence
- Professor Stuart Taberner talks to the BBC about Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel
- Dr Chris Homewood gives a talk at the Goethe Institute From Baader to Prada: Shifting Representations of German Terrorism
- Ms Ingrid Sharp takes part in an international panel discussion in Dortmund on the 2009 European Elections
- Dr Kristine Horner speaks to local German societies about the changing role of the Luxembourgish language
- Dr Ingo Cornils acts as consultant for a BBC Radio 4 programme The 68ers at 60
Research Environment
A selection of our activities since 2007 appears below.- Symposium on Edgar Reitz's Heimat, 5 November 2009
- New Directions in German Cinema
- New German Writers of the Twentieth-First Century and The German-Language Novel since 1990
- Germanic Languages and Migration in North America
- Roundtable Discussion with Henry Tietzsch-Tyler, Leverhulme Artist in Residence
- German-Jewish Relations in the Post-War Period
- 'From "Turkish" to "Muslim": Gendered Stories and the German Contribution to the Making of A European Other' and 'The Global Province. Recent Migration Literature in German'
- The ‘German Wartime Suffering Debate’ Ten Years on
- ‘Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923'
- Memories of '68: International Perspectives
- '"Recyling" in Contemporary German Culture'
- Günter Grass
- Depictions of German Wartime Suffering in Film
- 'Representations of German Wartime Suffering'