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Introduction & Background

Dr Beate Müller is Professor of German Studies and Cultural History. Before joining 麻豆传媒 in 1997, she worked at the universities of Flensburg, Cambridge, and Bochum.

Her areas of expertise include parody, censorship studies, literary theory, modernism, postmodernism, modern German literature, as well as representations of the Holocaust and World War II, with a particular interest in memories of war children's autobiographical writings.

Consultation and feedback hours (during teaching weeks only):

My office hours this semeser (teaching weeks only!) will be Thursdays, 2.30-4, and Fridays, 10.30-12. I'll hold these as 'blended' sessions, ie I'll be in my office OLB6.24, but I'll also be in the online zoom room for those whom an online meet suits best. Note that there's a new link for my office hours:

https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/j/5376367927

No need to make an appointment, just pop by or log on. 

 

Beate Müller

Professor of German Studies and Cultural History

Director of Research in SML

School of Modern Languages

Old Library Building

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麻豆传媒 upon Tyne  NE1 7RU

 

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Appointments outside of the above times can be arranged by email.

Roles and Responsibilities

a) at 麻豆传媒

• Director of Research in SML
• Member of Faculty Promotions Committee
• PDR Reviewer and Research Mentor
• IQA Reviewer
• Personal Tutor

b) elsewhere

• President of the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies (2022/23)

Qualifications

• First degree from Bochum University, Germany (1988);
• MA from Bochum University (1988);
• PhD from Bochum University (1993)

Previous Positions

• Research Assistant in English Dpt of Bochum University (1988-92);
• DAAD Lektorin for German at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1992-95);
• Assistant Professor at Flensburg University, Germany (1995-97)

Memberships

Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA); Women in German Studies (WIGS); Association for German Studies (AGS); German History Society (GHS); British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies (BIAHS); British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS).

Honours and Awards

• Research Fellowship Award, 9/2019-8/2020 (Leverhulme Trust)
• Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, 2018 (German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD)
• Two consecutive FIF (Faculty Impact Fund) awards for undertaking impact and engagement work with Holocaust Centres in South Africa
• EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) fellowship for the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich
• BA Small Research Grant for a joint project on representations of the German war child (with Debbie Pinfold, Bristol, and Ute Wölfel, Reading)
• BA Small Research Grant for archival work in Israel and London on child voices in Holocaust narratives
• Visiting Scholarship at the Bucerius Institute, Haifa University, Israel
• AHRB Research Leave Award for a monograph project on the censorship of Jurek Becker
• Prize for PhD thesis from Bochum University

Languages

German, English, French, Latin, modern Hebrew

Teaching (UG)

• SML1018 - Introduction to Literature
• GER2011/2111 - M for Murder
• GER4014 - German Representations of the Holocaust

Teaching and Research Training (PG)

• The Art of Connecting: Intertextuality
• Speaking to Different Audiences
• Working in Archives Abroad: Germany and Israel
• Routes to Impact

Research Supervision

Prof. Müller is happy to supervise research students on modern German literature and on Holocaust-related topics. 

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Research Interests

Prof. Müller's expertise lies in censorship studies; GDR literature (esp. Jurek Becker); parody; modernism (Kafka; Thomas Mann); as well as postmodernism, literary theory, and comparative literature. She is particularly interested in narrative representations of the Holocaust (in fictional and non-fictional texts), esp. the role of child figures in Holocaust narratives and war children's testimonies.

Current Major Projects

• "West German Student Essays on the Nazi Era: War Children's Voices from the 1950s" [book project]

Postgraduate Supervision

I'm happy to supervise research students on modern German literature, censorship, and on topics related to the Holocaust and World War II.

Recent PHD students have completed doctoral theses on the juvenalia of Judith Kerr and Tomi Ungerer and on filmic representations of the Holocaust in German, Israeli, and Hollywood cinemas since 1990.

Esteem Indicators & Impact

assessor of grant applications for the Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfond FWF (since 2013) and the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg FNR (since 2016);

member of AHRC Peer Review College (2007-10);

member of AHRC Peer Review Panel D (2009);

reader for Berghahn,  Camden House, Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Australia), and Critical, Cultural and Communications Press;

radio feature interview for programme on parodies of academic writing for Deutschlandradio Kultur, Sept. 2009;

podcast for German website of Yad Vashem, Israel's leading research institution on the Holocaust (2013);

interview for BBC 4 TV documentary on metamorphosis (initial broadcast in March 2013) 

repeated invitations to speak publicly about my research in the context of 麻豆传媒 City Council's activities for Holocaust Remembrance Day (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)

invitation to deliver a training session for the Holocaust Education Trust's CPD workshop on the Holocaust (Leicester, February 2017)

Curator of exhibitions on "Child Holocaust Testimonies" and "Children under Hitler", displayed in 麻豆传媒's City Library in the autumn of 2015 and in the context of 麻豆传媒 City Council's Holocaust Memorial Day programme (January 2016), as well as for a larger exhibition on "Children under the Nazis", which was shown at the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation's centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg in June 2017

External Funding

AHRB Research Leave Award to support monograph on the censorship of Jurek Becker (2001/02)

British Academy Small Grant Award to support archival research on child Holocaust narratives in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and the Wiener Library (London) (2009/10)

visiting scholarship at Haifa University's Bucerius Institute (2009/10);

British Academy / Leverhulme Small Grant Award for a project on "" (with Dr Debbie Pinfold, Bristol, and Dr Ute Wölfel, Reading, 2014-2016)

Fellowship from EHRI, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, for a project on "Fine Young Democrats? German Youth in OMGUS Surveys, 1945-49" (2016, for a research trip to the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich)

Research Stay award from DAAD, for a research trip to the Roessler Archive in Hagen, Germany, August 2018

Research Fellowship Award, Leverhulme Trust, for a book project on "West German Student Essays on the Nazi Era: War Children's Voices from the 1950s", 9/2019 - 8/2020

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Undergraduate Teaching

SML1018 - Introduction to Literature

GER2011 - M for Murder

GER4014 - German Representations of the Holocaust

GER3052 - Translation for Erasmus students

GER4081 - German General Language (translation)

Postgraduate Teaching

Mlitt and PhD supervisions:

• Gary Jenkins (PhD): Mediation in Repression and Remembrance. Post-Holocaust Generation Cinema and the Construction of Collective Memory (completed)

• Elise Bath (Mlitt): Female Victims of the Holocaust (2013-14) (completed)

• Lucy Stone (PhD): The Juvenalia of Judith Kerr and Tomi Ungerer (completed)

Research training programme for postgraduates:

• The Art of Connecting: Intertextuality (for Faculty Research Training programme)

• Speaking to Different Audiences (for SML)

• What does Impact Mean in the Academic World? (for SML)

• Working in Archives Abroad: Germany and Israel (for NBDTP)

• Muller B. . In: Cohen B, ed. Was their Voice Heard? Early Holocaust Testimonies of Child Survivors. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2016, pp.95-109.
• Müller B. . German Life and Letters 2016, 69(4), 453-467.
• Müller B, Pinfold D, Wölfel U. . German Life and Letters 2016, 69(4), 417-436.
• Cohen B, Müller B. . East European Jewish Affairs 2016, 46(1), 68-115.
• Biddle I, Müller B. . In: Peter Davies & Andrea Hammel, ed. Edinburgh German Yearbook 8: New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2014, pp.199-216.
• Muller B. . Translation and Literature 2014, 23(2), 257-271.
• Muller B. . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2013. Podcast.
• Cohen B, Müller B. . In: Boeling, R., Urban, S., Bienert, R, ed. Freilegungen: Überlebende – Erinnerungen – Transformationen. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013, pp.122-137.
• Muller B. . German Life and Letters 2012, 65(4), 472-488.
• Muller B, Baer B J, St-Pierre P, Ó Cuilleanáin C. . Translation Studies 2012, 5(1), 95-110.
• Müller B. . History and Memory 2012, 24(2), 157-195.
• Müller B. . Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 2011, 36(1), 85-114.
• Müller B. . In: Rautenberg, U, ed. Buchwissenschaft in Deutschland: Ein Handbuch. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Saur, 2010, pp.321-360.
• Muller B. . Ceska literatura 2009, 57(4), 503-530.
• Muller B. . Criterios. Revista internacional de teoria de la literatura las artes, y la cultura 2009, 36, 18-51.
• Müller B. . In: Barker, P; Ohse, M-D; Tate, D, ed. Views from Abroad: Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 2007, pp.199-210.
• Müller B. . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2006.
• Müller B. . German Life and Letters 2005, 58(1), 55-74.
• Müller B, ed. . Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004.
• Müller B. . In: Müller, B, ed. Censorship & Cultural Regulation in the Modern Age. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004, pp.1-31.
• Müller B. Hinter verschlossenen Türen auf der Bühne deutsch-deutscher Öffentlichkeit: Publikationsgeschichten über Jurek Beckers 'Schlaflose Tage'. In: Müller, B, ed. Zensur im modernen deutschen Kulturraum. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003.
• Müller B. . In: Müller, B, ed. Zensur im modernen deutschen Kulturraum. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2003, pp.1-30.
• Müller B, ed. . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003.
• Müller B. . In: Borgmeier, R; Wenzel, P, ed. Spannung: Studien zur englischsprachigen Literatur : für Ulrich Suerbaum zum 75. Geburtstag. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001, pp.213-233.
• Muller BS. . Neophilologus 2000, 84(1), 107-125.
• Müller B. . Modern Language Review 2000, 95(1), 1-17.
• Müller B. . In: Böhn, A, ed. Formzitate, Gattungsparodien, ironische Formverwendung: Gattungsformen jenseits von Gattungsgrenzen. St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1999, pp.135-173.
• Müller B. . In: Müller, B, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Amsterdam, Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1997, pp.127-153.
• Müller B, ed. . Amsterdam, Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1997.
• Müller B. . Weimarer Beiträge 1996, 42(2), 207-230.
• Müller B. . Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994.
• Müller B. . In: Koch, WA, ed. Die Welt der Lyrik. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1994, pp.170-192.
• Muller B. . In: Francesca Weil, André Postert and Alfons Kenkmann, ed. Kindheiten im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2018, pp.318-336.