Dr. Georgina Paul

Biography

Georgina Paul works primarily in the field of contemporary German literature, specializing in literature from East Germany (GDR) and literature post-unification. She has published important essays on Christa Wolf and holds a lively interest in gender issues, focusing on how gender is theorized and represented in literary texts. Additionally, she is a published translator and engages with scholarship on contemporary poetry. Her teaching covers German language and literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, with particular interests in the politics of literature in the post-1945 period, including works from the Federal Republic, GDR, Austria, and literature by women. Modern authors she teaches include Christa Wolf, Elfriede Jelinek, and W. G. Sebald. Paul has supervised successful doctoral theses on women writers from the Expressionist period and contemporary writing, including figures such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Anne Duden. Currently, she supervises DPhil students researching pop-feminist writing in the UK and Germany and responses to contemporary German poetry, particularly in the context of 20th-century avant-garde traditions.

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