Dr Dora Osborne

Senior Lecturer in German

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3657

Email

do38@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 204

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

On leave in Semester 1, 2024-25

 

Teaching

I teach German langauge and culture at all levels. I offer research-led Honours modules on the following topics:

• Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture 
• Holocaust Memory and Its Discontents
• Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond

I am happy to supervise PhD projects on topics relating to post-1945 literature and culture.

Research areas

My research focuses on questions of trauma, memory, and the archive in relation to Germany’s National Socialist past and the Holocaust. I have published widely on contemporary literature, memorial projects, film and visual culture. My first monograph, Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr, was published in 2013 and I am contributing editor of Archive and Memory in German-language Literature and Culture (Edinburgh German Yearbook 9). My second monograph, What Remains: the Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture, is forthcoming in spring 2020. In this project, I show how an “archival turn” marks the work of remembering and commemorating National Socialism and the Holocaust in the Berlin Republic.

Selected publications

• Open access

  ‘Ein Mann, dem die Welt vertraut’: Kurt Waldheim’s global legacy in Ruth Beckermann’s Waldheims Walzer

  Osborne, D. E., 26 Jan 2023, In: Austrian Studies. 30, p. 83-98 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Undoing the human in the films of Maren Ade

  Osborne, D. E., Sept 2022, In: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 58, 3, p. 308-327

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Too soon and too late: the problem of archive work in Christian Petzold’s Phoenix

  Osborne, D. E., 1 Feb 2020, In: New German Critique. 47, 1 (139), p. 173–195

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• What remains: the post-Holocaust archive in German memory culture

  Osborne, D., 1 Feb 2020, Rochester, NY: Camden House. 226 p. (Dialogue and disjunction: studies in Jewish German literature, culture & thought)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  ‘Irgendwie wird es gehen’: trauma, survival, and creativity in Saša Stanišić’s Vor dem fest

  Osborne, D., Oct 2019, In: German Life and Letters. 72, 4, p. 469-483 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes: the burden of history

  Osborne, D. E., Nov 2016, Gegenwartsliteratur ein germanistisches Jahrbuch = a German studies yearbook: Schwerpunkt/focus: Christoph Ransmayr. Lützeler, P. M., McGlothlin, E. & Kapczynski, J. (eds.). Tübingen: Stauffenberg, Vol. 15. p. 125-146

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Encountering the archive in Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther

  Osborne, D., 1 Sept 2016, In: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 52, 3, p. 255-272 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture

  Osborne, D. (Editor), Nov 2015, Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer. 218 p. (Edinburgh German yearbook; vol. 9)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Negotiating (in)visibilities in German memory culture

  Osborne, D., 6 Jan 2015, Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture. Peter Lang AG, Vol. 23. p. 159-180 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie : reconstructing a German archive.

  Osborne, D., 1 Nov 2015, Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture.. Osborne, D. (ed.). Rochester, NY: Camden House, p. 85-104 20 p. (Edinburgh German yearbook).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other contribution

 

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