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Degrees

BA in History and German (University of Dublin, Trinity College), PhD in German (Cambridge)

Research interests

Modern German-Jewish cultural and literary history; journalism, popular culture and the public sphere in nineteenth-century Germany; literary networks and the public intellectual in modern German culture. Publications on nineteenth-century German-Jewish authors (Heinrich Heine, Berthold Auerbach) and the nineteenth-century public sphere. Editor (with Helmut Koopmann) of Kulturkritik, Erinnerungskunst und Utopie nach 1848. Deutsche Literatur und Kultur vom Nachmärz bis zur Gründerzeit in europäischer Perspektive (2003)

Teaching interests

Modern German literature and history