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Andrew WebberÌýcompleted his PhD in Austrian Modernist writing at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ in 1986. Following a first appointment as Lecturer in German at QMUL, he returned to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, as a College Teaching Officer and Fellow of Churchill College. He was appointed to a University Assistant Lectureship in 1994, a Readership in 2004, and a Professorship in 2010. In 2009-10, he was Acting Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). In 2014, he was Distinguished International Visitor at UNSW (Sydney). The public lecture he held there on contemporary German visual culture (drawn from his chapter for the RoutledgeÌýHandbook of German Politics and Culture, ed. Sarah Colvin) can be viewed .ÌýInÌýautumnÌý2015 he heldÌýthe Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair of Global Literary Studies at the University of Tübingen. In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Prof Webber welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to his interests.
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- Modern German Literature, Culture and Thought at all levels
- Modern German Cultures of Performance
- Comparative Culture (European Film; The Body: MPhil module on The Modern City)
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- ModernÌýGerman and comparative literature
- German and comparative film and visual culture
- Cultural theory (especially psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality)
- Urban cultural studies
- Digital Humanities
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A Cultural Topography of Berlin (Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2004-7)
Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works by Arthur Schnitzler (AHRC standard research grant, 2014-19), for further details, please see the .
The Cinema of Christian PetzoldÌý(ongoing)Ìý
Space and Place in Contemporary German-language Culture (ongoing)
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Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil (London: Bithell/MHRA, 1990).
The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996).
The European Avant-garde 1900-1940 (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼: Polity, 2004).
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼: CUP, 2008; paperback edition, 2011).
Edited VolumesEight German Novellas, World’s Classics (Oxford: OUP, 1997).
Perfomance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies, with Carolin Duttlinger and Lucia Ruprecht (Berne: Lang, 2004).
Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis, with Emma Wilson (London: Wallflower, 2008).
Passage Work: Walter Benjamin between the Disciplines, special number of Paragraph, 32.3 (November 2009).
Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites, with Uta Staiger and Henriette Steiner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Companion to the Literature of Berlin (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼: CUP, 2017)
South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations, ed. with KerryÌýBystrom, Ashleigh Harris (London/New Delhi:ÌýRoutledge, 2018)
Placing Schnitzler, Austrian Studies 27 (2019), ed. with Judith Beniston.
For aÌýList of Essay Publications, please click here.Ìý