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A/PROF ALISON LEWIS



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: DEPUTY HEAD SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
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Homepage: http://www.german-swedish.unimelb.edu.au/staff/Alison_Lewis/index.html
Work: 8344 5103
Mobile: 0408 326 545
Fax: 8344 7821
Room: 624
Level: 06
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Contemporary German Literature Germany
East German secret police (Stasi) and culture Germany
Postwar German culture and society Intellectuals Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Leeds Research
United States Harvard University Research
United Kingdom University of Liverpool Research
Germany Free University of Berlin Exchange, Research, Teaching
Germany Universitaet zu Berlin Exchange, Research
Germany Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg im Breisgau Exchange, Research
Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Research
Germany Goethe Institute Teaching
United States Cornell University Research
United States Berkeley Research
United States University of Massachusetts Research
Germany University of Cologne Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg 31-Aug-1983
Doctor of Philosophy Adelaide University 31-May-1990

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 30-Nov-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
A difficult marriage: gender, politics and the romance in literary accounts of German unification Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
The meaning of love: love narratives in contemporary German literature since 1990 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Limbus 1: Erinnerungskrisen/Memory Crises
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Rombach Verlag(Freiberg)
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Book Chapters

  • "A difficult marriage": Marriage and marital breakdown in post-unification literature


    Year: 2008
    Book: Ossi Wessi
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing(Newcastle upon Tyne)
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  • Contingent Memories: The Crisis of Memory in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
    Year: 2008
    Book: Limbus 1 - Erinnerungskrise. Memory Crises
    Publisher: Rombach Verlag(Freiberg)
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  • German Reunification and the Postwar Alliance between German Politics and Culture
    Year: 2008
    Book: Theatre in the Berlin Republic
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Love and Survival and the Cold War: Imagining Masculinity in Michael Kumpfmüller's Hampels Fluchten and Ingo Schramm's Entzweigesperrt


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Seminar
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 137-153
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Das paradox der freien partnerwahl in der liebe: Zum aufstieg und fall einer sozialistischen liebessemantik in Christa Wolfs Der geteilte Himmel und Volker Brauns Unvollendete geschichte  [The paradox of free partner choice in love: On the rise and fall of a socialist semantics of love in Christa Wolf's Divided Heaven and Volker Braun's Unfinished Hi/story]


    Year: 2007
    Book: Moderne begreifen: Zur paradoxie eines sozio-asthetischen deutungsmusters [Understanding modernity: On the paradox of a social-aesthetic model of interpretation]
    Publisher: Deutscher Universitats-Verlag(Wiesbaden)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • "Are the Towers Still Standing?" September 11 and the Resurrection of the Literary Intellectual
    Year: 2006
    Book: Transformations of the New Germany
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Das Phantasma des Masochisten und die Liebe zu Hanna
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Weimarer Beitraege
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 554-573
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • "A Happy Marriage of Convenience": Gender and German Studies in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity
    Publisher: Otago German Studies(Dunedin)
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  • The embodiment of freedom: Gender, the body and power in the novels of Monika Maron [Die verkörper(lich)ung der freiheit: Geschlecht, körper und macht in den romanen Monika Marons]


    Year: 2005
    Book: Monika Maron: Wie ich ein Buch nicht schreiben kann und es trotzdem versuche
    Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg(Frankfurt-am-Main)
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Journal Articles

  • Erinnerung, zeugenschaft und die Staatssicherheit: Die schriftstellerin Monika Maron (Memory, witnessing and the State Security [Stasi]: The writer Monika Maron)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Der Deutschunterricht
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 22-33
    Publisher: Erhard Friedrich Verlag GmbH
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • The Agonies of Choice: Gender, the Family, and Individualization in Birgit Vanderbeke's "Das Muschelessen"
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Seminar
    Volume: XL
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 221-235
    Publisher: University of Toronto Press(Toronto)
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  • The Twilight of the Public Intellectual: Germany's Literary Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Portal
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-34
    Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney, Institute for International Studies(Sydney)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • The Art of Betrayal. The Prenzlauer Berg and the State Security
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Konigshausen & Neumann GmbH(Wurzburg)
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Book Chapters

  • The Stasi, the Confession and Performing Difference: Brigitte Burmeister's Unter dem Namen Norma
    Year: 2003
    Book: German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Journal Articles

  • Germany's Metamorphosis - Memory and the Holocaust in the Berlin Republic
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 102-122
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  • Reading and writing the Stasi file: On the uses and abuses of the file as (Auto) Biography
    Year: 2003
    Journal: German Life and Letters
    Volume: LVI
    Issue: No 4
    Page numbers: 377-397
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • The Longing for a Deed: Commitment and the search for female identity in the novels by Monika Maron.
    Year: 2002
    Book: Monika Maron in Perspective.Dialogical insights in historical and intertextual aspects of her work and its reception.
    Publisher: Rodopi
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Journal Articles

  • En-gendering Remembrance: Memory, Gender and Informers for the Stasi
    Year: 2002
    Journal: New German Critique
    Volume: 86
    Issue: Spring/Summer 2002
    Page numbers: 103-134
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • The imaginary community of the German Nation: Tales of a failed East-West encounter in two east German novels
    Year: 2001
    Book: Writings after the Wende: a decade of German Literature
    Publisher: Stauffenburg Verlag(Tubingen)
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Journal Articles

  • The Prenzlauer Berg between autonomous underground and Stasisimulation
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Internationales Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 58-87
    Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag(Tubingen)
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