Staff Profile

Consultation and feedback hours in Semester Two:

Tuesday 10.00-12.00 and Friday 11.00-12.00, either in person in OLB4.31 or online. If you would like to meet online please email me and I will send you a Zoom link.

Background:

I graduated with a BA in German and French from Lancaster University, and subsequently completed a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Since 2005 I have been teaching at Newcastle University on a range of German language, translation and literature modules. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Roles and responsibilities:

Year Abroad Officer for Germany and Austria 

Undergraduate Teaching

GER1065 and GER1066 (Level A German)

TRI1002 (Translation Theory and Practice, Stage 1)

TRI2002 (Translation Theory and Practice, Stage 2)

GER4083 (Level D Translation)

SML1018 (Introduction to Literature)

Postgraduate Teaching

SML8012 and SML8013 (Translation Practice and Principles)

MA Translation Project and Dissertation supervision

• Articles

  • 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.

• Authored Book

  • 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.