Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Deirdre Byrnes teaches German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She was awarded her PhD from University College Dublin. She is the author of the monograph Rereading Monika Maron: Text, Counter- Text and Context. Her teaching and research interests include GDR literature, the literature and architecture of the Berlin Republic, and memory discourses. Siobhán Donovan is a Lecturer in German Studies in the School of Languages and Literatures at University College Dublin. Her teaching and research interests lie in the German-speaking literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, German opera, and contemporary Swiss-German literature. She is the author of Der christliche Publizist und sein Glaubensphilosoph: Zur Freundschaft zwischen Matthias Claudius und Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (2004), and co-editor of Music and Literature in German Romanticism (2004). She is one of the editors of a forthcoming collection of essays on Eduard Hanslick with the University of Rochester Press. Carmel Finnan is a Lecturer in German at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. She studied Modern German Literature at NUI Galway, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich and the Humboldt- Universität Berlin. She is the author of Eine Untersuchung des Schreibverfahrens Marieluise Fleißers anhand ihrer Prosatexte (Peter Lang, 2003) and has published on a variety of 20th and 21th century topics, specifically gender and modernity, German-Jewish relations since 1945 and contemporary Swiss literature and culture. Valerie Heffernan is a Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. In her teaching and research, she focuses on contemporary Swiss literature and contemporary writing by women. She is the author of Provocation from the Periphery. Robert Walser Re-examined (2007) and co-editor (with Jürgen Barkhoff) of Schweiz schreiben. Zu Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Mythos Schweiz in der Gegenwartsliteratur (2010). She has also published on Julia Franck’s Die Mittagsfrau and on contemporary writers such as Ruth Schweikert and Zoë Jenny. 226 Contributors Emily Jeremiah is a Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Troubling Maternity: Mothering, Agency, and Ethics in Women's Writing in German of the 1970s and 1980s (Maney/MHRA, 2003) and Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women's Writing in German: Strange Subjects (Camden House, 2012). With Frauke Matthes, she is currently co-editing Ethical Approaches in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture (Edinburgh German Yearbook VII, forthcoming 2013). Emily is also a prize-winning translator of Finnish poetry and fiction. Elaine Martin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of German at NUI Maynooth. She is currently researching an IRCHSS-funded project entitled “Colonial Discourse in In ter-War Germany (1919-1939): Literary Interventions and Public Debates”. She has published articles on Theodor Adorno (2009), Nelly Sachs (2011), Rose Ausländer (2011), Fanny Lewald (2011) and Inka Parei (forthcoming). She is the author of a monograph entitled The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation in Nelly Sachs’ Poetry: Contexts and Practices, published by de Gruyter in 2011. Together with Florian Krobb, she is currently editing a volume entitled Weimar Colonialism. Gillian Pye is Lecturer in German at University College Dublin. She is the author of Approaches to Comedy in German Drama (2002) and editor of Trash Culture: Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective (2010) and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language prose and drama. Her current project looks at the role of material culture and identities in transition. Lars Richter is a PhD candidate in German Languages and Literatures at the University of Alberta, Canada. His dissertation will focus on the works of Juli Zeh. He studied German and English at Freie Universität in Berlin and completed his M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. Daphne Seemann recently completed her PhD at University College Dublin. Her doctoral thesis examined German-Jewish literature and identity after 1989. She has published articles on Doron Rabinovici, Robert Menasse, Eva Menasse and Maxim Biller. Linda Shortt is a Lecturer in German at Bangor University. Her project ‘Narrating Illness in 20th and 21st Century German Literature’ examines .

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