Dr. Andrew Webber

Biography

Andrew Webber is a Professor of Modern German Comparative Culture at the University of Cambridge, specifically in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He completed his PhD on Austrian Modernist writing at Cambridge in 1986 and has since held various positions including Lecturer in German at Queen Mary University of London, and Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. Webber was appointed as University Assistant Lecturer in 1994, was promoted to Readership in 2004, and became a Professor in 2010. He served as Acting Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) during the 2009-2010 academic year, and was a Distinguished International Visitor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2014. He has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. His teaching and research interests cover a range of topics including Modern German literature and culture, performance studies, and comparative culture with a specific focus on film and visual culture. He is engaged in ongoing research examining contemporary German language culture and has been involved in significant research projects such as the Cultural Topography of Berlin and the Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works by Arthur Schnitzler. His scholarly contributions include public lectures and teachings on various aspects of modern German culture and visual studies.

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