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| Name | Mc Gowan, Moray | |
| Main Department | Germanic Studies | |
| College Title | Professor & Head of Germanic Studies | |
| moray.mcgowan@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 2415 | |
| Web | http://www.tcd.ie/Germanic_Studies/htm/staff/moraymcgowan/moraymcgowan.htm | |
| Fax | +353 1 896 3762 | |
| Biography | |
| I studied German, English, Philosophy and Politics at Newcastle-upon-Tyne (BA 1971, MA in German 1973), and took a Dr. phil. in Literaturwissenschaft at Hamburg in 1987. After teaching at the German Universities of Siegen and Kassel in the 1970s, I was a Lecturer in German Studies at three UK Universities, Lancaster, Hull and Strathclyde, between 1978 and 1989, when I became Professor of German and Head of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield (UK). In 2000 I was appointed to the Chair of German at Trinity College Dublin, and was elected a Fellow in 2003. I teach modern German literature and culture, particularly drama, German social and cultural history, contemporary studies and language. My main research interests are in the modern and contemporary periods, and I am currently working principally in three areas: German theatre and drama in and since the 'Wende' of 1989-90, ideas of 'Europa' in modern German thought, and Turkish-German writing. | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| From period prior to appointment to TCD in 2000, examples only. | |
| External Reviewer for BA (International) in European Studies at NUI Maynooth, 2002 | 2002 |
| German Panel for UFC Research Assessment Exercise, UK | 1992 |
| British Academy Postgraduate Studentships Selection Committee | 1993-96 |
| Government of Ireland Postgraduate Research Scholarships Assessor | 2001 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Marieluise-Fleißer-Gesellschaft (Germany) | 1987 | |
| German Studies Association (USA) | 1994 | |
| International Brecht Society | 1990 | |
| Association of Third Level German Teachers in Ireland | 2001 | |
| Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland | 1978- |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| German | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Modern and contemporary German literature, culture and social history. Cultures of migration. Currently working principally in three areas: German theatre and drama in and since the 'Wende' of 1989-90, ideas of 'Europa' in modern German thought, and Turkish-German writing. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Cultures of migration | East Germany | German Democratic Republic | German History since 1870 |
| German Language/Literature | German Theatre and Drama | German ideas of Europe | German unification |
| Germany: Modern Cultural and Social History | Ideas of Europe | Migration and Literature | Modern and contemporary German drama and theatre |
| Post war German literature | Turkish-German Culture | Turkish-German writing |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Swansongs: Performing (at) the end of the GDR |
| Summary | A study of theatre’s relationship to the GDR’s collapse, examining theatres as cultural-institutional microcosms, and productions of new plays and the classic repertoire (including opera) in the GDR’s last phase as examples of how art, in turbulent historical moments, helps shape those moments’ narratives while itself being transformed by them. |
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| Programme | |
| Type of Project | book and shorter publications |
| Date from | 2000 |
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| Person Months | |
| Publications and Other Research Outputs |
| Peer Reviewed |
| 'Turkish-German fiction since the mid-1990s' in, editor(s)Stuart Taberner , Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic, Cambridge, CUP, 2007, pp196 - 214, [Moray McGowan] Notes: [paperback edition 2011: 978-0-521-17404-6] |
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| ‘Fidelio and Faust in the German “Wende” of 1989/90’ in, editor(s)Lorraine Byrne , Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2004, pp126 - 155, [Moray McGowan] | |
| Introduction in, Franz Xaver Kroetz: Plays: 1, London, Methuen, 2004, ppvii - liv, [Moray McGowan] | |
| Moray McGowan , Marieluise Fleißer, Munich, C.H.Beck, 1987 |
| Non Peer Reviewed | |
| "Sie gucken beide an Milch Topf": Goethe's Bürgergeneral in double refraction' in, editor(s)Stuhlmann, Andreas & Studer, Patrick , Language - Text - Bildung/Sprache - Text - Bildung, Frankfurt/Main et. al., Peter Lang, 2005, pp79 - 88, [Moray McGowan] | |
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