Goldsmiths - University of London

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Dr Frank Krause

Position held:
Reader in English and Comparative Literature

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7456

Email:
f.krause (@gold.ac.uk)

Room 703
7th Floor
Warmington Tower

Office hours:
On research leave Autumn Term 2011

1. Staatsexamen (LA Sek. II), Universität Bochum, 1987; Dr. phil., Universität Bochum, 1999; DAAD-Lektor, Keele University, 1991-96; at Goldsmiths College since 1996

Teaching

Currently, I convene and teach Modernism and Drama and The First World War: Modern Narratives, and I contribute to Moderns and Studies in Comparative Literature.

Professional activities

  • Listed in the International Directory of Germanists
  • Member of the British Comparative Literature Association and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Co-editor of the e-journal Aurifex
  • External Examiner at Bath University

Research interests

I have written on German Politics and Business German, German literature of the Enlightenment, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, literary Expressionism, and the Expressionist playwright Georg Kaiser. Together with Prof Dr Christine Kanz and Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex, I am currently planning an international conference on Familie und Moderne (1880-1945), to be held in March 2012.

Selected publications

  • (ed.), Expressionism and Gender (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2010)
  • Literarischer Expressionismus (Paderborn: UTB Fink, 2008)
  • (ed.), France and German Expressionism (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2008)
  • Klangbewußter Expressionismus (Berlin: Weidler, 2006)
  • (ed.), Georg Kaiser and Modernity (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2005)
  • Sakralisierung unerlöster Subjektivität (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2000)
  • (co-ed.), The Green Agenda (Keele: Keele University Press, 1995)