Dr Colette Lawson, Teaching Fellow
Contact Details
ll38@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 462953
Office: Buchanan 304
Research and Teaching
My research interests lie broadly in post-1945 German literature and film, especially its relation to politics, history and memory. In particular I have worked on the memorialisation of the Second World War and the problem of representing German suffering in German culture and from 2005-2008 held a studentship with a major AHRC-funded research project on Discourses of German Victimhood. Last year I completed my PhD on the memory of the Allied bombings in German literature and the writer W.G. Sebald.
At St Andrews I teach an honours module on ‘East German Cinema’ as well as literature and history from the 19th and 20th centuries and 1st year language for both beginners and post-A Level students.
Recent Publications
2009; C Lawson; “The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings”; Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic; Karina Berger, Stuart Taberner (ed); Camden House; 29-41.