Dirk Göttsche#
| Membership Number: | 3277 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full professor at Nottingham
Fields of Scholarship
- Postcolonial and Cross-cultural Literary Studies
- Problems of periodisation (Goethezeit - Romanticism - Vormärz - Realism - Modernism)
- History, memory and the politics of memory in German 19th century literature
- Modern German short prose (Kleine Prosa) from the Goethezeit to the present day
- Zeitroman and historical narrative
- Black German literature
- German colonial history and its legacy
- German literature of the long 19th century (1789-1914)
- Literary discourses about Africa
- (Post-) colonial memory and the postcolonial rereading of 19th century literature
- African migrants' writing in German
- Austrian Modernism (from Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Ingeborg Bachmann)
- Wilhelm Raabe
- Karl Gutzkow
- German novel and Novelle
