German DAAD Lektorin (2005 - 2010)

Room: Arts Building 2.06
Tel: (+44) 020-7882.8301
Fax: (+44) 020-8980.5400
email: s.frane@qmul.ac.uk

Office hours:
Tuesdays: 16.00-17.00
Thursdays: 13.00-14.00
& by appointment

Dr Susanne Frane was educated at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, at the University of Reading (UK) and Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, where she read German Literature and English and American Studies. Her M.A. thesis (Magisterarbeit) was on “Beseelte Kunst – entseelte Körper: Die Metamorphosen des Pygmalion-Mythos in der anglo-amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts und des Fin de Siècle“, which focused mainly on Gender and Cultural Studies. She completed her PhD in English and American Literature in 2007. She is currently working on a new monograph on acts of reading in English literature.

Prior to that she worked for a news magazine in Munich, then for the arts programme at the head office of the Goethe-Institut in Munich (Media Art and Film and Television). Before she was appointed DAAD Lektorin at QM, she acted as head of the English Department at the Volkshochschule Reutlingen. She has been working as a freelance journalist for several newspapers such as the Nürnberger Zeitung and the Nürnberger Nachrichten.

Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

I organise the Writers-in-Residence Programme in the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

I am co-founder and co-editor of the postgraduate e-journal in cultural studies eTransfers.

Undergraduate teaching

I organise(d) the following courses:

• GER064 German Play
• GER067 Germany Today

I also teach the following courses, or parts of them,
or I am examiner for the following courses:

• COM200 - The Scene of Reading
• GER212 - German II – Oral/Aural Classes,
  Guided Composition and Translation
• GER051 - German I – Oral/Aural Classes
• GER061 - German III – Oral/Aural Classes,
  Guided Composition
• GER107 - Germany Then and Now
• GER103 and 203 - German I and II Intensive -
  Oral/Aural Classes
• GER117 - Foundations of German Studies
• GER615 - Introduction to German Studies
• GER619 - Advanced Translation and Précis

I am co-founder and co-project leader of the German podcast radio station Campus Soundscapes.

Supervision

I supervise undergraduate research projects.

Postgraduate teaching

I teach on the MA Programme in Anglo-German Cultural Relations
MA in Anglo-German Cultural Relations

Organised Conferences / Events

2005-2010
numerous readings, interviews, creative writing workshops along the lines of the Writer in Residence Programme at the CAGCR
(see events listings)

2005
German Day at SML

2006

• German Day at SML
• Conference "The Implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in UK Higher Education Institutions – Chances and Challenges", co-organised with Dr Falco Pfalzgraf

2007
"Rhythm & Poetry Workshop for Teachers and Students of German", funded by the Goethe-Institut London

2009
One-day workshop "eTransfers: Academic and Creative Writing", co-organised with Dr Angus Nicholls

2010

• one-day Languages Event "Making Languages Work for You", co-funded by the Goethe-Institut London and the DAAD as well as the Careers Service and SLLF at QM
• one-day DAAD Workshop "Making Languages Work for You", co-funded by the DAAD

Research Interests

• Gender and Cultural Politics in Literature
• Victorian Studies
• Anglo-German Cultural Relations
  
• Cultural Studies
• Comparative Literature
• Contemporary German and English Drama
• Film and Media Studies

Publications

• Frauen aus Männerhand: Ein Paradigma in der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Trier: WVT, 2008.
  
  
• "Literary Review: Jon McGregor. Nach dem Regen". Nürnberger Zeitung 29. April 2005, p. 8.
• "Literary Review: Edward Thomas.
  Die Unbekümmerten". Nürnberger Zeitung 23. September 2005, p. 24.
• "Literary Review: Rick Moody. Wassersucher". Nürnberger Zeitung 2.August 2006, p. 12.

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