Anne Fuchs

Anne Fuchs, FBA is an academic specialist on Post-War German literature.

Professor

Anne Fuchs

FBA
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Konstanz
ThesisDramaturgie des Narrentums. Das Komische in der Prosa Robert Walsers (1991)
Academic work
DisciplineGerman literature
Sub-disciplineMemory studies
InstitutionsUniversity College Dublin

Career

Fuchs studied German and English Literature at the University of Konstanz, obtaining her M.A. in 1988 and her doctorate in 1991.[1] Her doctoral dissertation on humour in the prose of the Swiss writer Robert Walser was published as Dramaturgie des Narrentums. Das Komische in der Prosa Robert Walsers (Munich, Fink, 1993).

She went on to work at University College London, and from 1992 to 2010 at University College Dublin, where she became Professor of Modern German Literature and Culture.[1] She moved to the University of St Andrews in 2011 and then to the University of Warwick, as Professor of German Studies, in 2012.[1] In 2016 she returned to University College Dublin as Director of the UCD Humanities Institute.[2]

In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3]

Publications
  • "Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte": Zur Poetik der Erinnerung in W.G. Sebalds Prosa. Weimar, Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau, 2004.[4]
  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse: The Politics of Memory. Basingstoke, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.[5]
  • After the Dresden Bombing: Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present. Basingstoke, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
gollark: Basically, it's the idea that, since there's a chance of god existing, and if they do you'll get infinite happiness if you do believe or infinite suffering if you don't, but if they don't exist you'll not lose much by believing anyway.
gollark: I can provide a brief summary I guess.
gollark: Religion informs people's actions. *It is relevant*.
gollark: Also, opportunity cost.
gollark: The main issue is that the Judeo-Christian god is but a single point in the infinite (or very big) space of *possible* gods.

References
  1. "Professor Anne Fuchs". University of Warwick.
  2. "Anne Fuchs". University College Dublin.
  3. "Professor Anne Fuchs FBA". British Academy.
  4. Reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 21 April 2005; IASL online, 11 May 2005; Modern Language Review, 100.4 (2005), p. 1157; Études Germaniques, 61 (2006), pp. 301-2; Journal of European Studies, 101 (2007), pp. 101-3; Germanistische Mitteilungen, 65 (2007), pp. 86-91
  5. Reviewed in: Deutschland Archiv, 6 (2008), pp. 1137-1138; Journal of European Studies, 39 (2009), pp. 259-261; Modern Language Review, 105 (2010), pp. 292-94; German Studies Review, 32/3 (2009), pp. 714-15.

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