Professor Anne Fuchs
Contact Details
af37@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463659
Office: Buchanan 206
Full research profile
Anne Fuchs - complete publications list (PDF, 187 KB)
Research and Teaching
My research addresses German cultural memory since 1945, German literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, German-Jewish literature, modernism, and travel writing from the 18th century. For a number of years I have been particularly concerned with “German memory contests”, i.e. a series of intensely fought public debates about German cultural identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II. More recently, the growing distance to the Nazi past and unification have led to a new memory contest that concerns the legacy of the GDR and of the old Federal Republic in the context of globalisation. My new forthcoming monograph investigates these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective with reference to the local, national and global memory of the bombing of Dresden.
At St Andrews I co-teach a broad curriculum of courses, covering German literature from the 18th to 21st centuries. My current honours modules concern aspects of gender and generational identities in recent German literature and modernism (Kafka). I also teach on W.G. Sebald in the comparative literature programme. I have an established track record as PhD and postgraduate supervisor with 7 completed PhD supervisions in areas such as German-Jewish literature, modernism, contemporary German and Austrian Literature, European Cinema, Melancholy in post-Wende German.