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DR HEATHER MERLE BENBOW



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.german-swedish.unimelb.edu.au/staff/Heather_Benbow/index.html
Work: 8344 5102
Room: 626
Level: 06
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
German Literature and Film Germany
History of Ideas Germany
Gender Studies and Postcolonial Approaches to German Culture Germany

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1997
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2003

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
Saving the appearances: vision & reason in the european enlightenment Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003

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 2008

Books

  • Multilingual Europe: Reflections on language and identity


    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Book Chapters

  • "The only thing Turkish about me is my name and my face": Language and identity in Doris Dörrie's Happy Birthday, Türke!


    Year: 2008
    Book: Multilingual Europe: Reflections on language and identity
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • "Weil ich der raschen Lippe Herr nicht bin": Oral transgression as enlightenment disavowal in Kleist's Penthesilea


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Women in German Yearbook
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 145-166
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  • Ethnic drag in the films of Doris Dörrie


    Year: 2007
    Journal: German Studies Review
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 517-536
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  • Review of Odradeks Lachen: Fremdheit bei Kafka


    Year: 2007
    Journal: The German Quarterly
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 402-403
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Figuring National Character in Kant's Beobachtungen Uber Das Gefuhl Des Schonen Und Erhabenen 
    Year: 2006
    Book: Figuration- Defiguration: Beitrage zur transkulrellen Forschung
    Publisher: Iudicium Verlag GmbH(Munich)
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Journal Articles

  • "Was auf den Tisch kam muβte aufgegessen[...] werden": Food, Gender, and Power in Kafka's Letters and Stories
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The German Quarterly
    Volume: Summer 2006
    Page numbers: 347-365
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  • 'The Woman Should Reign and The Man Should Govern': Gendering Kant's body politic


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Melbourne Journal of Politics
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 80-96
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • "False tolerance" or false feminism? Hijab controversies in Australia and Germany
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 181
    Page numbers: 10-15
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the problem of feminine orality
    Year: 2003
    Book: Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe
    Publisher: Rodopi(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • "This lady was as educated as she was thin": hunger and gender in Wilhelm Raabe's novel Der Hungerpastor.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 109-125
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  • Ways in, ways out: Theorizing the Kantian Body
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Body & Society
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-72
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Hungry one: Penthesilea and the outrageousness of Feminine Hunger
    Year: 2003
    Event name: V.Frankfurther Kleist-Kolloquium
    Conference Publication: Frankfurter Kleist-Kolloquium
    Page numbers: 121-131
    Publisher: Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag(Stuttgart)
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