German staff profiles

Siobhán Donovan

BEd with Gaeilge & Modern Languages Rep | College VP for T&L

Interests: 18th-19th century literature and history of ideas, Adaptation studies, 19th-century opera as adaptive genre, contemporary Swiss-German literature

Sherry Ishak

DAAD Lektorin

Sherry can assist with any inquiries regarding the DAAD and studying in Germany.

Gillian Pye

Erasmus (German)

Contemporary German-language literature with particular focus on identity in post-unification Germany, representations of wellbeing and happiness in literature, literary treatments of material culture and the everyday, posthumanism and literature. Twentieth century drama and theories of comedy.

Jeanne Riou

European Studies

Continental Philosophy (especially German Philosophy), The Relationship between Philosophy and Literature; Intellectual History; German literature of the Enlightenment, Romantic and Modernist periods; Cultural Theory; Aesthetics.

Joseph Twist

Head of German | European Engagement

The intersection of philosophy and religion, and the reconceptualisation of community, subjectivity and belonging in contemporary German culture, with a particular focus on minority German literature and writers of a Muslim background.

Heidi Zojer

Sabine Krobb

Translation studies, German-Scandinavian literary relations, German and Austrian literature late 19th and early 20th century