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Jana Burešová: The Dynamics of Forced Female Migration from Czechoslovakia to Britain, 1938-1950
Raymond Coffer: The relationship between Richard Gerstl and Arnold Schönberg
Craig Griffiths: Competing Emancipations: The West German Gay and Lesbian Movement in the 1970s
Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle: Stefan Zweig in China
Jochen Hung: The Newspaper "Tempo" and the Culture of the Weimar Republic
Bianca Zaininger: The interrelationship between Austrian and British youth culture from 1960 to 1990
Subject areas
Research doctoral projects currently undertaken, or recently completed, by students at the Institute include:
- Female migration from Czechoslovakia to Britain, 1937-48
- The flâneur and the fetish: walking in the city with Benjamin, Baudelaire and Poe
- Austrian female migration to Britain, 1945 to 1960
- The inter-relationship between British and Austrian youth culture
- The polarization of surface and depth in Heinrich Heine's Buch der Lieder
- Martin Heidegger as a reader of Rilke
- Hölderlin's and Celan's Schizopoetics
- The relationship between Richard Gerstl and Arnold Schönberg
- The generation of '68 and the politics of remembrance
- Reading Clarice Lispector through the work of Toni Morrison and Bessie Head
- The cultural re-cycling of Spanish historical women: Juana la Loca and Mariana Pineda
- Memory and the city in the Chilean transition to democracy
- The role of the mid-eighteenth-century German court in the development of the 'ballet d'action'
