Professor Anne Fuchs | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Konstanz |
Thesis | Dramaturgie des Narrentums. Das Komische in der Prosa Robert Walsers (1991) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Modern German literature and culture |
Sub-discipline | Memory studies Temporality studies Modernism Intermediality |
Institutions | University College Dublin |
Anne Fuchs, FBA MRIA is an academic specialist on modern and post-war German literature and Culture.
Fuchs studied German and English Literature at the University of Konstanz,obtaining her M.A. in 1988 and her doctorate in 1991. [1] Her doctoral dissertation on humour in the prose of the Swiss writer Robert Walser was published as Dramaturgie des Narrentums. Das Komische in der Prosa Robert Walsers (Munich,Fink,1993). Her research addresses German cultural memory since 1945,German literature in the 20th and 21st centuries,German-Jewish literature,modernism,and the experience of time and temporality in modern culture. For a number of years she has been particularly concerned with "German memory contests",i.e. a series of intensely fought public debates about German cultural identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust,World War II and unification. The growing distance to the Nazi past and unification have led to a new memory contest that concerns the legacy of the GDR and of the old Federal Republic in the context of globalisation.
She went on to work at University College London,and from 1992 to 2010 at University College Dublin,where she became Professor of Modern German Literature and Culture. [1] She moved to the University of St Andrews in 2011 and then to the University of Warwick,as Professor of German Studies,in 2012. [1] In 2016 she returned to University College Dublin as Director of the UCD Humanities Institute. [2]
In 2009,she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA). [3] In 2014,she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [4]
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