Staff Teaching and Research Interests
Jürgen Barkhoff
Staatsexamen, Dr.phil. (Hamburg), F.T.C.D., Associate Professor in German, College Registrar.
Literature and cultural history of the Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism and Romanticism; literature and the sciences; literary and cultural history of the 20th century; exile literature; contemporary Swiss literature. Current research: Questions of European identity, literature and anthropology around 1800, Literature and ecology.
jbrkhoff@tcd.ie
Andrew Cusack
B.A. Ph.D. (Dublin), B.Sc.(Lond), Lecturer in German Literary and cultural history of the German nineteenth century, including new media and popular literature. Aesthetic theory and genre. The German Schauerroman.
cusackat@tcd.ie
Caitriona Leahy
B.A., M.A. Ph.D (NUI),
Lecturer in German.
Teaching interests include: modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, contemporary women writers. Current Research: Ingeborg Bachmann, cross-currents in historical and fictional discourse.
cleahy@tcd.ie
Gillian Martin
M.A., M.Litt., H.Dip.Ed., Ph.D (Dublin), F.T.C.D.,
Senior Lecturer in Business German.
Intercultural and intracultural communicatin in organizational and healthcare settings; cultural influences on leadership and management styles; ethical organizational leadership.
gsmartin@tcd.ie
Moray McGowan
B.A., M.A. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Dr.phil. (Hamburg), F.T.C.D.,
Professor of German
Head of School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
Modern and contemporary German literature, culture and ideas. Currently working on GDR theatre and drama of the 1980s, on the literatures of migrant and multicultural experience in Germany, and on German ideas of 'Europa'.
moray.mcgowan@tcd.ie
Clemens Ruthner
Mag. phil, PhD (Vienna), Lecturer in German
Modern and contemporary German literature and culture. Currently working on otherness in literature and culture (e.g. vampirism and the "gothic"; ethnicity in Habsburg Austria and in Bosnia-Hercegovina etc.), imagology and narratology, theories of culture, the canon, cultural change etc. Book reviewer of contemporary Austrian, German, Dutch/Flemish and South East European writing. www.niemansland.us
ruthnerc@tcd.ie
Katrin Eberbach
M.A. (Dublin), staatlich gepr. Übersetzerin, staatlich gepr. Dolmetscherin (Stuttgart)
Departmental Language Instructor.
Teaching German as a foreign laguage; learner autonomy; e-learning; language for specific purposes.
eberback@tcd.ie
Anne Klapperstück
M.A. (Leipzig),
DAAD Lektorin.
Teaching German as a foreign language
klappera@tcd.ie
Johanna Öttl
M.A. (Wien),
ÖK Lektorin.
Teaching German as a foreign language
ottij@tcd.ie
Regina Harkin
M.A. (Stockholm)
Swedish lector.
rharkin@tcd.ie
Brigitte Morrogh
B.A., M.Phil (Dublin).
German Language Teacher
morroghb@tcd.ie
Cordula Politis
M.A. (Freiburg) Ph.D (Dublin)
IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently working on the Amazon-myth in medieval German literature
cpolitis@tcd.ie
Affiliated lecturer:
Peter Arnds
Ph.D (U of Toronto), Lecturer in Comparative Literature; German culture and Italian; Professor of German and Italian at Kansas State University (1995-2008); taught comparative literature and foreign language methodology at Kabul University, Afghanistan in 2007; Interests: German literature from 18th century to today, specifically Bildungsroman and contemporary German and Austrian literature, novel of magical realism, cultural theory; creative writing.
arndsp@tcd.ie
Some of our current and recent postgraduates also teach in the Department, as do
Emeritus Professor Eda Sagarra
M.A. (Dublin, N.U.I.), Dr.phil. (Vienna), D.Litt., F.T.C.D., M.R.I.A.
Modern German and Austrian literature and society; women writers; national stereotypes; German-Irish relations in literature and history. Current Research: Literary and social history of servants in Germany; German book market; Irish perceptions of Germany; Grillparzer
esagarra@tcd.ie
Gilbert Carr
B.A. (Dunelm.), M.A. (Dublin), Ph.D. (Cantab.)., F.T.C.D., Senior Lecturer in German.
Since TT 2006 Head of Department
Modern German and Austrian literature and thought, especially early 20th century; literary periodicals; satire; war poetry. Current research: Karl Kraus.
gcarr@tcd.ie
Tim Jackson
M.A., Ph.D. (Dublin), Dip.Ed. (Oxon.), F.T.C.D., Senior Lecturer in German, Associate Professor.
Medieval German literature. Current research: Aspects of style, narrative technique and the communication of meaning in devotional literature and the courtly romance.
tjackson@tcd.ie