Newcastle University

Introduction

Consultation Hour (Semester One): Monday 13.00-14.00, Merz Room (Level 3, OLB)

Background

I teach on undergraduate German language modules at all levels and I also teach post-graduates on the MA in Professional Translating and the German Extension Course at Newcastle. In addition to language teaching, my particular interest is nineteenth and twentieth-century German-Jewish literature. I have a PhD in German from Yale University, a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a BA in German and French from Lancaster University. I also do freelance translation work.

Previous Positions

Before teaching at Newcastle, I taught undergraduate German language courses (beginners, intermediate and advanced) as well as some literature seminars at Yale University for six years.

Undergraduate Teaching

GER1062 and 1063 (Level A)
GER2061 (Level C Grammar Lecture)
GER4061 (Level D Translation into English)
SML1018 (Texts and Contexts)

Postgraduate Teaching

SML8012 and SML8013 Translation Practice and Principles

MA Translation Project and Dissertation supervision
German Extension Course

• Ferstenberg H. Meditations on Jewish Creative Identity: Representations of the Jewish Artist in the Works of German-Jewish Writers from Heine to Feuchtwanger. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004.
• Ferstenberg H. German-Jewish Creative Identity in the Age of Lessing and Beyond: Berthold Auerbach’s Dichter und Kaufmann. Focus on Literatur 1998, 5, 1-11.
• Ferstenberg H. Heinrich Heine und George Canning. Heine-Jahrbuch 1996, 35, 113-127.