Dr. Gilbert Carr

Born in London, I became an Irish citizen in 2017. I studied German and Russian at Durham University, U.K. (B.A. 1966, Ph.D. in 1972), including one year of study at the University of Würzburg and one year of postgraduate research in Vienna. I was a lecturer in German at Trinity College, Dublin from 1969 to 1984 (awarded an M.A. juris officii in 1973). I am an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (University of Munich 1980, University of Göttingen 1992), and was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Essen in 1987. At Trinity, I was Senior Lecturer in German from 1984 to 2008, and was elected a Fellow in 1999. From 1996 to 1999 I was Director of European Studies, and from 2006 to 2008 I was Head of the Department of Germanic Studies. I retired in September 2008.

  First World War literature and propaganda   German and Austrian culture c. 1890-1930   Literary journalism   Manuscript edition   Satire   Theatre history

My main research interests are in German and Austrian culture c. 1890-1930, especially the Viennese fin de siècle, First World War literature and propaganda, satire, literary journalism, literature and thought, theatre history and reception studies, textual and discourse analysis, text philology (editing archival sources).