Professor of Modern Literature and Culture
Professor of French & Vice Dean (Research)
Reader in French Literature & Visual Culture
Reader in German. Co-Director of the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture.
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Professor Erica Carter, German Screen Studies Network, (2015-2017)
The German Screen Studies Network was founded in June 2012 as a platform for informed comment and German-language film promotion amongst researchers, educators, film professionals, and the interested public.
German Screen Studies Network
Dr Santanu Das, Cultural exchange in a time of global conflict: colonials, neutrals and belligerents during the First World War (2013-2016) HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area
This sourcebook is one of the outcomes of a three-year, collaborative research project Cultural Exchange in a time of Global Conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War that ran from 2013 until 2016 and was funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). The sourcebook aims to introduce scholars and the interested public to rare or unknown sources, and stimulate further research and thinking on the subject of cultural encounters.
Cultural exchange in a time of global conflict: colonials, neutrals and belligerents during the First World War
Dr Santanu Das, The Making of Modernist Resistance, 1880-1950 (ssmscaifa) (2015-2017) EC - European Commission
Dr Lara Feigel, Beyond Enemy Lines: Literature and Film in the British and American Zones of Occupied Germany, 1945-1949, European Research Council (2013-2018) Leverhulme Trust (2014-2019).
This project investigates the cross-fertilisation of Anglo/American and German literature and film during the Allied Occupation of Germany between the end of the war and the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. It is the first study to survey in detail the cultural landscape of the British and American zones of Germany, exploring in particular the British and American writers and filmmakers who worked in Germany during the Occupation, either as part of the Allied Control Commissions or as independent (although rarely neutral) participants. By doing so it aims to offer a new interpretative framework for postwar culture, in particular in three areas: the history of the Allied Occupation of Germany; the history of postwar Anglophone and Germanophone literature (arguing the two were more intertwined than has previously been suggested); and the history of the relationship between postwar and Cold War and of the creation of a united Europe.
Beyond Enemy Lines
Professor Patrick Ffrench, Dr Giovanni Menegalle, Visions of Technological Change in 20th-Century French Thought: Technics, Society and the Human from Durkheim to Deleuze & Guattari, British Academy (2018-2020).
Professor Patrick Ffrench, 'A sensation of one's own'. The Clinical Encounter in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture, Leverhulme Trust (2013-2017).
Professor Silvina Milstein, Musical dream forms, Leverhulme Trust (2016-2018).
Anna Snaith , Leonora Carrington's Surrealist Space: Literary and Visual Artistry Leverhulme Trust (2014-2017)
Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to reward art that seeks to break boundaries and 'make it new'. Postgraduate students throughout Europe either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image work and proposals for installation and performance. Entrants are encouraged o play with form to make us think, feel and question.
The prize is a collaboration between the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture and Cove Park, Scotland's International Artist Residency Centre. Winners in three categories (text, image, sound) receive £1000 and pend two weeks at Cove Park, engaging in a residency and showcase. The three winners collaborate on a new work of art which will then be performed. All shortlisted works are also given a public performance at the prize-giving and are written up in the journal Textual Practice.
Recent judges have included Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Cusk, Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Harding, Deborah Levy, Richard Scott, Arlene Sierra, Gillian Wearing, Ryan Wigglesworth.
Please see our website for details of how to enter the competition (deadline is in March each year) and for information about the past winners and judges
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