Dagmar Ingela Paulus

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Department of German, University College London

HIGHER EDUCATION_______________________________________________________

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PhD: German Studies, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2013)

 M.A.: Theatre Studies, German Literature and Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin (2005)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS_________________________________________________

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Language Coordinator in German, Department of German Studies, University College London, United Kingdom (2019)

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Senior Teaching Fellow in German, Department of German Studies, University College London, United Kingdom (2017)

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Teaching Fellow in German, Department of German Studies, University College London, United Kingdom (2013)

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Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in German, Department of German Studies, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2009)

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DAAD Language Teaching Assistant in German, Department of German, State University Tomsk, Russia (2007)

RESEARCH INTERESTS______________________________________________________

Nationalism and national identity, landscape and ideology, cultural memory, gender, travel writing, German literature and history of the nineteenth century.

PUBLICATIONS_____________________________________________________________

Monograph

 Abgesang auf den Helden. Geschichte und Gedächtnispolitik in Wilhelm Raabes historischem Erzählen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2014, 254 p.

Edited volume

 Nationalism Before the Nation. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition 1756-1871, eds.

Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth. Leiden: Brill 2020

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

 Remembering Two Mad Women: Female Madness and Society in Adalbert Stifter’s Turmalin and Wilhelm Raabe’s Im Siegeskranze. In: Germanistik in Ireland 12/2017, pp. 18-32

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 Literarische Gedächtnispolitik und der Mythos vom Alten Reich: Wilhelm Raabes Novelle

„Des Reiches Krone“. In: Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft 2013, pp. 20-37

Book chapters

 Introduction. In: Nationalism Before the Nation. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition 1756-1871, eds. Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth. Leiden: Brill 2020

 Femininity, Nature and Nation: Fanny Tarnow’s Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg. In: Nationalism Before the Nation. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition 1756- 1871, eds. Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth. Leiden: Brill 2020

 „Geh jetzt hin und zieh dir Pantoffeln an“: Alltag und Idylle in Wilhelm Raabes ‚Die Akten des Vogelsangs‘. In: Das Abenteuer des Gewöhnlichen. Alltag in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Moderne, eds. Thorsten Carstensen and Mattias Pirholt. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2018, pp. 27-44.

 Politik und Poetik in Gutzkows ‚Der Königsleutnant‘ (1849) und Laubes ‚Die Karlsschüler‘

(1846). Zum vormärzlichen Bild von Goethe und Schiller. In: Goethe als Literatur-Figur, eds.

Hans-Jürgen Schrader and Alexander Honold. Göttingen: Wallstein 2016, pp. 57-77

Peer-reviewed online publications

 From Charlemagne to Hitler. The Imperial Crown and its Symbolism. Peer-reviewed academic website of the Leverhulme-funded project Charlemagne. A European Icon, University of Bristol. http://www.charlemagne-icon.ac.uk/further-reading/articles/

Handbook contributions

 Der Spiegel des Cyprianus; Marthe und ihre Uhr; Eine Halligfahrt. In: Storm-Handbuch.

Leben – Werk – Wirkung, eds. Christian Demandt and Philipp Theisohn. Stuttgart/Weimar:

Metzler 2017, pp. 108-111; pp. 127-128; pp.175-176

 Historische Novellen; Else von der Tanne. In: Raabe-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, eds. Dirk Göttsche, Florian Krobb and Rolf Parr. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2016, pp. 117- 124; p. 103-106

Reviews

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 Ben Hewitt: Byron, Shelley, and Goethe’s ‘Faust’. An Epic Connection. In: Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 13 (3), pp. 397-400

 Frank-Lothar Kroll, Martin Munke (eds.): Deutsche Englandreisen/German Travels to England 1550-1900. In: Francia-Recensio (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; online publication). URL:

http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/francia/francia- recensio/2016-4/fn/kroll_paulus

 Maria Lang: Alles im Wanken. Chaos und Ordnung in Novellen des bürgerlichen Realismus.

In: Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft 2016, pp. 178-183

 German Studies: Literature, 1830–1880. In: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol. 76, eds. Stephen Parkinson and Susan Wharton. London: Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) 2016, pp. 375-383

 As above, Vol. 75, 2015, pp. 455-464

 As above, Vol. 74, 2014, pp. 340-349

GRANTS___________________________________________________________________

 2016: Funding from the Octagon Small Grants Fund, UCL, for the conference Nationalism before the Nation (£758.60)

 2016: Funding from the UCL School of European Languages and Cultures for the conference Nationalism before the Nation (

£200)

 2016: Funding from the School of European Languages and Cultures for the research colloquium German Practices of (Anti-) Authority, Representation and Resistance (

£140)

 2015: Travel Subsidy from Women in German Studies (£100)

 2013: Publication Subsidy from the Association for German Studies (AGS) for the publication of my PhD thesis (£500)

 2011: University of Nottingham Graduate School Travel Prize for travel to the US to give a paper at Brown University (£600)

 2009: European Union Research Scholarship and a University of Nottingham, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies PhD Scholarship (

£10.170; £36.000)

HONOURS AND AWARDS___________________________________________________

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 Nomination for the UCL Students’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2016)

 Nomination for the University of Nottingham Endowed Postgraduate Award (2012)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS___________________________

INVITED:

 ‘The First World War I, Collective Memory, and German Nationalism’, Making sense of WWI remembrance and current nationalism in Europe: Italy, France and Germany, student-led discussion forum, University College London (November 2018)

 ‘Femininity, Nature and Nation: Fanny Tarnow’s Briefe aus Sankt Petersburg’, Annual Meeting of the DAAD Lektoren, Cumberland Lodge, United Kingdom (2018)

 ‘Hero, Anti-Hero, or Just Plain Dull? Adalbert Stifter’s Witiko’, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Comparative Literature (ACLA), Utrecht, Netherlands (2017)

 ‘Der Königsleutnant vor dem Hintergrund des vormärzlichen Goethe-Bilds’, Annual meeting of the Swiss Goethe Society, University of Basel, Switzerland (2015)

 ‘Literarische Gedächtnispolitik und der Mythos vom alten Reich: Wilhelm Raabes Novelle Des Reiches Krone‘, Annual Meeting of the Raabe Society, Eschershausen, Germany (2013)

 ‘Der Held und das Vergessen: Raabes Novelle Sankt Thomas’, Annual Meeting of the Raabe Society, Braunschweig, Germany (2010)

OTHER:

 ‘Death as Atonement in Fate Plays’, Death and Dying in the Long Eighteenth Century, Conference at the Institute for Modern Language Research, London (2018)

 ‘”Geh jetzt hin und zieh dir Pantoffeln an“: Alltag und Idylle in Wilhelm Raabes Die Akten des Vogelsangs’, Jahrestreffen des Fontane-Kreises, German Historical Institute London, United Kingdom (2018)

 ‘From Charlemagne to Hitler: The Imperial Crown and its Symbolism’, German Practices of (Anti-) Authority, Representation and Resistance, University College London, United Kingdom (2016)

 ‘The Apple of Resistance: The Life and Works of Korbinian Aigner’, Festival of Cultures, University College London, United Kingdom (2016)

 ‘“Nein, das kann der gerechte Kaiser nicht wissen”: Politics and Prejudice in Travel Writing to Russia in the Early Nineteenth Century’, Association for German Studies conference, Limerick, Ireland (2015)

 ‘Unfinished Business. Ghosts and Collective Memory in the Works of Wilhelm Raabe’, Jahrestreffen des Fontane-Kreises, London, United Kingdom (2013)

 ‘Die Wunde Rotpeter: Kafka’s Ein Bericht für eine Akademie with an Adornian lens’, DAAD Summer School of German Studies, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2013)

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 ‘Remembering Two Mad Women: Adalbert Stifter’s Turmalin and Wilhelm Raabe’s Im Siegeskranze’, Women in German Studies Annual Conference, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (2011)

 ‘Mountains, Myths and the German Nation: Historical Discourse in Wilhelm Raabe’s Novel Nach dem großen Kriege’, Graduate Conference (Re)Making Myths, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

CONFERENCE AND PANEL ORGANIZATION__________________________________

 Co-Organizor of the second UK-wide German ab initio Forum, University of Warwick (2019)

 Co-Organizor of the second UK-wide German ab initio Forum, Aston University Birmingham (2018)

 Co-Organizor of the international academic conference Nationalism before the Nation, University College London (2017)

 Organizor of a UK-wide workshop for teachers of German ab initio, University College London (2017)

 Co-Organisor of a research colloquium at University College London, German Practices of (Anti-) Authority, Representation and Resistance (2016)

 Chair and organisor of the panel Travel Writing at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies, Newcastle, United Kingdom (2016)

 Co-Organisor, DAAD Summer School of German Studies, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2013)

TEACHING INTERESTS______________________________________________________

German literature, history, and culture 1800-1945, Realism, Nationalism 1806-1945, theories of cultural memory, travel writing, the uncanny in literature and film

COURSES TAUGHT_________________________________________________________

At University College London:

 German ab initio for first-year students

 Post-Beginner’s German for 2^nd-year students

 Introduction to German Literature for first-year students

 Translation and Intercultural Communication for second-year students

At the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom:

 Reading German Culture: Images of Berlin, 1^st year

 German Language 1, 1^st

 German Oral Practice, 4^th year

 Reading German Literature, 1^st year.

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 Beginner’s German, 1^st year

 Post-Beginner’s German, 2^nd year

 Inter-Faculty German, 4^th year

 German Translation, 2^nd year

 Advanced Essay Writing, 4^th year

At Tomsk State University, Russia:

 German conversation, 1^st to 4^th year

 German poetry from the Baroque to the present, 4^th year

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE_____________________________________________

 Module administration at UCL

 Processing assessment, University of Nottingham and UCL

 Enrolling students at the Language Centre, University of Nottingham

 Chair of the PG Forum, Department of German, University of Nottingham

SERVICE TO PROFESSION___________________________________________________

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Reviewer,

Comparative Critical Studies, 2012

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT_____________________________________________

 Workshop ‘Media in the Classroom’, Cumberland Lodge, United Kingdom (2018)

 Online Course ‘Providing Pastoral Care to Students’, University College London (2016)

 Award of Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2015)

 Online Course ‘Teaching and Marking’, University College London (2015)

 Workshop ‘Teacher Training’, University of Nottingham (2012)

 Workshop ‘Teaching Translation’, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (2011)

 Workshop ‘Teaching German Literature’, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2011)

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES_______________________________________

 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

 Association for German Studies (AGS)

 Women in German Studies (WIGS)

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 Internationale Raabe-Gesellschaft