Staff Members
Christiane Schönfeld
Qualifications: PhD, MA (Penn State), BA (Freiburg)
Position: Head of Department
Telephone: 353 61 20-4582
Email: christiane.schonfeld@mic.ul.ie
Office: N22
Research Interests: Aspects of adaptation processes and intermediality; 19th to 21st century literature (especially Expressionism and other avant-garde movements; exile writers such as Ernst Toller or Lion Feuchtwanger, Emmy Hennings, etc.); Weimar film; war and post-war film; transcultural film adaptation projects
Christiane Schonfeld's Homepage*
Sabine Egger
Qualifications: PhD (Berlin), MA (Cologne)
Position: Lecturer
Telephone: 353 61 20-4949
Email: sabine.egger@mic.ul.ie
Office: G64
Research Interests: 19th to 21st century literature; new media; memory; alterity; questions of migration, transnationalism and transmediality; spatial turn; inter-/transcultural approaches; Europe and beyond; East/West; Irish-German Studies
Sabine Egger's Homepage*
Dr. Sabine Egger will be on Research Leave until September 2018.
Helmut Grugger
Qualifications: PhD, MA (Innsbruck)
Position: Lecturer
Telephone: 353 61 774779
Email: helmut.grugger@mic.ul.ie
Office: C107
Office hour: Tuesday 1.00-1.45pm
Helmut Grugger's Homepage*
Janine Hemmerling
Qualifications: 1st State Examination for Teaching at Secondary Schools (Koblenz)
Position: Lektorin
Telephone: 353 61 20-4338
Email: janine.hemmerling@mic.ul.ie
Office: G45a
Susanne Mödl (2017/18)
Position: ERASMUS Internship
University of Bamberg, Germany
Email: susanne-maria.moedl@stud.uni-bamberg.de
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS/ASSISTANTS
Laura Thüring
Qualifications: MA (LMU München)
Research Topic: Auszüge einer narrativen Philosophie. Eine Untersuchung zu Topographien der Humanität in Karl Mays späteren Erzählungen und deren Rezeption im 20. Jahrhundert. (Doctoral Project)
Supervisor: Dr. Christiane Schönfeld, Dr. Gert Hofmann (UCC)
Email: Laura.Thuring@mic.ul.ie
Sandra Wagner
Qualifications: MA (Université du Luxembourg, Université de Lorraine (Metz), Saarland University)
Research Topic: Kulturelle Abjektion: Die Funktion von romantischen Monstern in deutschen Mash-up Novels (Doctoral Project)
Supervisors: Dr. Sabine Egger, Dr. Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College Dublin)
Email: sandra.wagner@mic.ul.ie
Recent PhD Graduates
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