Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Andreas Kramer

Appointed to Goldsmiths in 1995.

Academic qualifications

MA, Dr.phil. University of Münster (Germany)

Teaching

I am currently the convenor of 'Studies in Literature and Film'; 'Writing the European City'; 'The European Avant-Garde'; and 'European Literary Theory' (MA/MRes module at the IGRS)

Areas of supervision

• Regionalism in Scotland and East Germany: A Comparative Study of Novels
• Pastoral Modes in the Fiction of WG Sebald
• Speculative Linguistics: Deleuze and the Avant-Garde

Grants & awards

• DAAD Scholarship for Senior Academics, Spring 2009
• AHRC Research Leave, Spring 2005
• Marbachstipendium, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Germany), 2002-3
  

Professional activities

• Member of Conference of University Teachers in German
• Member of British Comparative Literature Association
• Member of Deutsche Schillergesellschaft
• External examinership (Cork; Trinity Dublin; UCL; KCL, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway)

Conferences

• Carl Einstein und die Geographien der Avantgarde (Carl Einstein and the European Avant-Gardes, IGRS London, Sept. 2010)
• Sporting Dada (2nd Conference of the European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Póznan, Sept. 2010)
• Yvan und Claire Goll: Formen literarischer Zusammenarbeit (IVG, Warsaw, July 2010)
• Westwärts und zurück (London in German Literature; Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary, Dec. 2009)
• The Traffic of Gender in Expressionist Prose (London, IGRS, March 2009)
• Mapping the Avant-Garde: Futurism and Geopolitics (Goldsmiths, Febr. 2009)
• Europa minor: Yvan and Claire Goll (Europa? Europa! Ghent, 2008)

Research interests

20th-century German literature and culture; the European Avant-garde; literature and film; critical theory. I’m particularly interested in comparative approaches to literature, in how modern literature is transformed by the visual; how literatures travel across national and linguistic boundaries; and how modern writing coexists with critical theory. Currently underway is a project exploring the European Avant-garde in the light of its geographical imaginations.

Selected publications

• (ed., with Jan Röhnert) Literatur – Universalie und Kulturenspezifikum: Beiträge der Sektion "Literatur und Kultur" der Internationalen Deutschlehrertagung Weimar-Jena 2009 (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag; Materialien Deutsch als Fremdsprache, vol. 82), forthcoming March 2010.
• 'Der lyrische Blick nach Westen – und zurück: Deutsche London-Gedichte des 20. Jahrhunderts,' forthcoming in the above vol.
• 'Speaking Dada: The Politics of Language' in Elza Adamowicz & Eric Robertson (eds.) Eggs Laid by Tigers: Dada and Beyond (Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi) (Avant-Garde Critical Studies), forthcoming 2010.
• 'The Traffic of Gender in Expressionist Prose Writing' in Frank Krause (ed.) Expressionism and Gender (Göttingen: V&R unipress), forthcoming 2010.
• (with Jan Röhnert) 'Auf allen Köpfen lag des Lichtes Traum (Heym): Das Paradigma des Films in der Lyrik des Expresssionismus' in Euphorion. Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, 103.4 (2009), pp. 509-550.
• 'Rilke and Modernism' in Karen Leeder & Robert Vilain (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Rilke (CUP, 2010), pp. 113-30.
• 'Europa Minor: Yvan and Claire Goll’s Europe' in Sascha Bru et al. (eds) Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 125-37.
• 'Topographien von Heimat in Else Lasker-Schülers Prosa' in Andrea Hammel & Godela Weiss-Sussex (eds) 'Not an Essence but a Positioning': German-Jewish Women Writers, 1900-1938 (Munich: Meidenbauer), pp. 129-49.
• [ed, with Jan Röhnert] Die unendliche Ausdehnung von Zelluloid: 100 Jahre Film und Kino im Gedicht (Dresden: Edition Azur, 2009) 236pp. [anthology of German-language film poems].
• 'Von der Peinlichkeit der Sprache' in Christian Schulte & Winfried Siebers (ed.) Figuren der Erinnerung: Studien zum Werk W.G. Sebalds (Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2008)
• '"Paris liegt einfach am Bayrischen Platz / zu Berlin." Französische Avantgarde und entgrenzte Lyrik im deutschen Expressionismus’ in Frank Krause (ed.) Frankreich und der deutsche Expressionismus. France and German Expressionism (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2008)
• Regionalismus und Moderne: Studien zur deutschen Literatur 1900-1933 (Berlin: Weidler, 2006)
• (with Robert Vilain) A Bibliography of the Primary Works of Yvan Goll (Oxford: P. Lang, 2006)
• 'Schnittstellen. Beobachtungen zu deutschsprachigen Cut-Up-Texten um 1970' in D. Linck & G. Mattenklott (eds.) Abfälle. Sttoff- und Materialpräsentationen in der deutschen Pop-Literatur der 60er Jahre (Hanover: Wehrhahn, 2006)