Newcastle University

Background

After graduating with a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (German and Russian) at New Hall, Cambridge, I completed an MA in Modern German Literature and Theory at UCL and a PhD at Warwick University. I previously taught German Studies at Warwick University and Oxford Brookes University.

Roles and Responsibilities

Personal Tutor - *Consultation hour for students Wednesdays 11-12*

Degree Programme Director for German Studies (R220)

Assistant Chair of Board of Examiners

Qualifications

BA (Hons)in German and Russian (Cambridge), 1994.
MA in Modern German Literature (London), 1995.
Postgrad. Cert. in Teaching in Higher Education (Warwick), 1999.
PhD German Studies (Warwick), 2002.

Previous Positions

2003-2004: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in German, Oxford Brookes University.
2001-2003: Temporary Lecturer in German, University of Warwick.
1997-2001: Graduate Teaching Assistant,University of Warwick.

Memberships

Women in German Studies

Research Interests

Literature and philosophy; contemporary German literature; cultural and critical theory and European philosophers, especially Adorno, Benjamin, contemporary French philosophy, Sigrid Weigel, Adriana Cavarero; women's writing.

Current Work

Thomas Bernhard's novels and silencing; common motifs in Lyotard and Adorno's philosophies of difference; Adorno's aesthetic theory.

Research Roles

Member of the Literary Studies group, SML; RGFM, Faculty of Humanities

Postgraduate Supervision

Willing to supervise on 20th Century German literature and theory

Esteem Indicators

Invited paper at the conference 'Philosophy and the Uses of Narrative', Centre for Research into Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick (November 2004).

Organiser of Women in German Studies 2006 conference

Undergraduate Teaching

GER4007 Misfits and Miscreants in Contemporary German/Austrian Fiction.
GER4008 Cabaret, Catastrophe, Capital: A Cultural History of 20th Century Berlin.
GER4061 German Level D Language
GER2036 Die Bundesrepublik bis 1990
SML499 Dissertation
FMS2004 Film Practical 2
SML1016 Film Practical 1
SML1020 Introduction to European and Latin American Cinema

Postgraduate Teaching

FMS8014 MA Film Studies

• Ludden T. Hearing the Silences in Thomas Bernhard's Ja: Difference, Narrative and Lyotard's Concept of the Differend. German Life and Letters 2010,63 1 6-19.
• Ludden T. 'Das Undarstellbare darstellen' : Kulturkritik and the Representation of Difference in the works of Anne Duden. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2006.
• Ludden T. Birth and the Mother in Materialist Feminist Philosophy and Contemporary German Texts. Women: A Cultural Review 2006, 17(3), 341-354.
• Ludden T. Nature, Bodies and Breakdown in Anne Duden's 'Das Landhaus' and Karen Duve's Regenroman. In: Bartel, H; Boa, E, ed. Pushing at Boundaries: Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 41-55.
• Ludden T. History, memory and montage in Anne Duden's Das Judasschaf. German Life and Letters (special issue on Memory and Contemporary Germany, eds. Mary Cosgrove and Anne Fuchs) 2006, 59(2), 249-265.
• Ludden T. Female Allegory and the Critique of German History in Helma Sanders-Brahms's Deutschland Bleiche Mutter. In: Hipkins, D; Plain, G, ed. War-Torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II. Oxford, Berne etc.: Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 239-258.
• Ludden T. "Getting back to the umbilical cord": Psychoanalysis, feminism and The Tin Drum. In: Shafi, M, ed. Approaches to Teaching Grass's The Tin Drum. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008, pp. 425-452.
• Ludden T. Die Revolte der Schlange: Differenz/Differánce bei Anne Duden. In: Gruber, B; Preußer, H-P, ed. Weiblichkeit als politisches Programm? Sexualität, Macht und Mythos. Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2005, pp. 153-166.
• Ludden T. Writing Differences: Bodies and Modes of Relationality in Works by Anne Duden. New Readings 2004, 7.
• Ludden T. Allegories of Cultural Relations: Anne Duden’s Reading of Representations of St. George and the Dragon in Der Wunde Punkt im Alphabet. German Life and Letters 2004, 57(1), 69-90.
• Ludden T. Material Movements in texts by Anne Duden. In: Boa, E; Bartel, H, ed. Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words. Approaches to her Fiction, Poetry and Essays. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003, pp. 72-87.