Dr Geoff Wilkes

Dr Geoff Wilkes
Dr Geoff Wilkes

BA DipEd (Syd), PhD (Macq)

Lecturer in German
 
Coordinator of First Year German (on leave Sem 1, 2013) 

Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (32), 437
Phone: +61 (7) 3365 3135
Email: geoff.wilkes@uq.edu.au
Teaching:
  • Introductory German Language 1 & 2,
  • Continuing German Language 1 & 2,
  • Translation from German,
  • Where East Meets West,
  • German Literature Since 1945,
  • Books the Nazis Burned.
Research interests:
  • German literature and society since 1870 (particularly during the Weimar Republic and since reunification)
  • translation.
Current research projects:
  • "Weimar, Nazism and Exile: Continuities in the Novels of Irmgard Keun".
Selected recent publications:
  • "On a Railroad to Nowhere: Irmgard Keun's D-Zug dritter Klasse," German Studies Review 28 (3), 2005
  • "Innere Emigration und innere Grenzen in Altes Herz geht auf die Reise," Hans-Fallada-Jahrbuch 4, 2003
  • "Hans Fallada's Crisis Novels 1931-1947", Berne 2002.
  • "Die beschatteten Brueder des kleinen Mannes Pinneberg: Einige unbeachtete Aspekte von 'Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst", Hans-Fallada-Jahrbuch 3, 2000.
Other activities and service:
  • Zertifikat Deutsch, schools liaison

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