Newcastle University

Introduction

Dr Beate Müller is Reader in Modern German Studies. She teaches and researches on modern German literature. Areas of expertise include parody, censorship, modernism, postmodernism, GDR literature (esp. Jurek Becker) and narrative representations of the Holocaust.

Office Hours: Thursdays, 10-12

Roles and Responsibilities

UoA/REF-Coordinator for German;

member of University Disciplinary Committee & Fitness to Practise Panel;

Chair of the School's UG Framework group;

PDR Reviewer;

Quality Officer;

Chair of the Board of Examiners in SML (semester 2 only) 

Qualifications

first degree from Bochum University, Germany (1988);
MA from Bochum University (1989);
PhD from Bochum University (1993)

Previous Positions

Research Assistant in English Dpt of Bochum University (1988-92);
DAAD Lektorin for German at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1992-95);
Assistant Professor at Flensburg University, Germany (1995-97)

Memberships

MHRA; WIGS; Deutscher Germanistenverband; AGS

Honours and Awards

prize for PhD thesis from Bochum University

Languages

German, English, French, modern Hebrew

Research Interests

Dr Müller's research interests lie in censorship studies; GDR literature (esp. Jurek Becker); narrative represenations of the Holocaust (in fictional and non-fictional texts); the role of child figures in Holocaust narratives; parody; modernism (Kafka; Thomas Mann); as well as postmodernism and contemporary German literature

Other Expertise

literary theory and comparative literature

Current Work

• 'Let it not be Forgotten': Child Holocaust Testimonies from the Hebrew School in Polish Bytom – monograph cum critical edition, to be co-authored with Dr Boaz Cohen (Western Galilee College, Israel)

Future Research

• Child Voices in Holocaust Narratives (book project, single-authored)

Research Roles

Field Leader of Literature Group in SML
UoA Coordinator for UoA 53 (German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies)
Research Mentor in SML

Postgraduate Supervision

censorship; GDR literature; Jurek Becker; parody; modernism; postmodernism; Kafka; Thomas Mann; Holocaust representations

Esteem Indicators

monograph on parody (1994) reviewed in important journals;
invitation to give a public lecture on Jurek Becker at the Berlin Academy of Arts (April 2003);
invitation to give a keynote address at the conference on "Re)ecritures: parodie et pastiche" (Durham, March 2005);
invitation to deliver public lecture at IGRS in November 2006;
promotion to a personal readership in 2007;
member of AHRC Peer Review College (2007-10);
member of AHRC Peer Review Panel D (2009);
reader for Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Australia), Camden House, and Critical, Cultural and Communications Press;
visiting scholar at Haifa's Bucerius Institute (Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010);
public lecture: "Of Wolves and Lambs: The Holocaust in East and West German Literature" (Bucerius Institute, Haifa University, 29 December 2009; bucerius.haifa.ac.il/);

Funding

awards from the British Academy and from internal Newcastle sources to support conference on censorship held at Newcastle in 2000; cf.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/censorship.conference/

AHRB Research Leave Award to support my monograph on Jurek Becker (2001/02)

British Academy Small Grant Award to support archival research on child Holocaust narratives in Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and the Wiener Library (London)

HaSS Faculty REF Fund Awardto support editorial book project on Shlomo Czam's collection of Yiddish chld Holocaust testimonies (2011) 

Keywords

none

Undergraduate Teaching

SML1018 - Texts and Contexts;
GER2005 - Metamorphosis in German Literature;
GER2007 - Dangerous Knowledge
GER4008 - Berlin
GER4012 - World War II and the Holocaust in German Literature

Postgraduate Teaching

Mlitt and PhD supervisions:
• Gary Jenkins (FT, year 1): Mediation in Repression and Remembrance. Post-Holocaust Generation Cinema and the Construction of Collective Memory
• Cecilia Gil (writing up, year 4): New Representations of the Body by Contemporary French Women Authors

• Muller BS. Die grausame Schrift: Zur Ästhetik der Zensur in Kafkas 'Strafkolonie' (The cruel Scripture: The Aesthetics of censorship in Kafka's "Penal Colony). Neophilologus 2000, 84(1), 107-125.
• Muller B. Die Grausame Schrift: Zur Asthetik der Zensur in Kafkas 'Strafkolonie' (The cruel script: On the aesthetics of censorship in Kafka's 'Strafkolonie'). Neophilologus 2000, 84(1), 107-125.
• Muller B, Cohen B. 'Let it not be Forgotten': Shlomo Czam's Collection of Early Post-War Child Holocaust Testimonies at Bytom School. 2014. In Preparation.
• Muller B. Framing the Family: Visual Material in Holocaust Diaries about, for, and by Children. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2012. In Press.
• Muller B. Trauma, Historiography and Polyphony: Adult Voices in the CJHC's Early Post-War Child Holocaust Testimonies. History and Memory 2012. Submitted.
• Müller B. Zensurforschung: Paradigmen, Konzepte, Theorien. In: Rautenberg, U, ed. Buchwissenschaft in Deutschland: Ein Handbuch. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2010, pp.321-360.
• Muller B. Cenzura a kulturni regulace: mapovani terenu. Ceska literatura 2009, 57(4), 503-530.
• Muller B. La censura y la regulacion cultural: Cartografiando el territorio. Criterios. Revista internacional de teoria de la literatura las artes, y la cultura 2009, 36, 18-51.
• Müller B. Jurek Becker im Visier des MfS: Textsorten und Textwelten im OV 'Lügner'. In: Barker, P; Ohse, M-D; Tate, D, ed. Views from Abroad: Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 2007, pp.199-210.
• Müller B. Stasi - Zensur - Machtdiskurse : Publikationsgeschichten und Materialien zu Jurek Beckers Werk. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2006.
• Müller B. 'Zeit der Nichtübereinstimmung': Censorship Discourses about and in Jurek Becker's Schlaflose Tage. German Life and Letters 2005,58 1 55-74.
• Müller B, ed. Censorship & Cultural Regulation in the Modern Age. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004.
• Müller B. Censorship and Cultural Regulation: Mapping the Territory. In: Müller, B, ed. Censorship & Cultural Regulation in the Modern Age. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004, pp. 1-31.
• Müller B. Hinter verschlossenen Türen auf der Bühne deutsch-deutscher Öffentlichkeit: Publikationsgeschichten über Jurek Beckers 'Schlaflose Tage'. In: Müller, B, ed. Zensur im modernen deutschen Kulturraum. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003.
• Müller B, ed. Zensur im modernen deutschen Kulturraum. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003.
• Müller B. Spannung durch Zensur: Zur Phänomenologie eines Motivs der Gegenwartsprosa in Ost und West. In: Borgmeier, R; Wenzel, P, ed. Spannung: Studien zur englischsprachigen Literatur : für Ulrich Suerbaum zum 75. Geburtstag. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001, pp. 213-233.
• Müller B. Sea Voyages into Time and Space: Postmodern Topographies in Umberto Eco's 'L'isola del giorno prima' and Christoph Ransmayr's 'Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis'. Modern Language Review 2000, 95(1), 1-17.
• Müller B. Academia Pranca: Die Wissenschaftsparodie als Provokation der Wissenschaft? Zum Beispiel die Sokal-Affäre. In: Böhn, A, ed. Formzitate, Gattungsparodien, ironische Formverwendung: Gattungsformen jenseits von Gattungsgrenzen.. St. Ingbert: Röhrig, 1999, pp. 135-173.
• Müller B. Hamlet at the Dentist's: Parodies of Shakespeare. In: Müller, B, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Amsterdam, Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1997, pp. 127-153.
• Müller B, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Amsterdam, Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1997.
• Müller B. '...über den Sprachen ist die Sprache': Mythogene narrative Strukturen in Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Erwählte'. Weimarer Beiträge 1996, 42(2), 207-230.
• Müller B. Komische Intertextualität: Die literarische Parodie. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994.
• Müller B. 'See how it's done?' Zur Funktionsweise von Lyrikparodien. In: Koch, WA, ed. Die Welt der Lyrik. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1994, pp. 170-192.
• Muller B, Baer B J, St-Pierre P, Ó Cuilleanáin C. Translation Studies Forum: Translation and Censorship. Translation Studies 2012, 5(1), 95-110.
• Müller B. Über Zensur: Wort, Öffentlichkeit und Macht. Eine Einführung. In: Müller, B, ed. Zensur im modernen deutschen Kulturraum. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2003, pp.1-30.