Anne Fuchs
Anne Fuchs, is an academic specialist on Post-War German literature.Career
Fuchs studied German and English Literature at the University of Konstanz, obtaining her M.A. in 1988 and her doctorate in 1991. Her doctoral dissertation on humour in the prose of the Swiss writer Robert Walser was published as Dramaturgie des Narrentums. Das Komische in der Prosa Robert Walsers.
She went on to work at University College London, and from 1992 to 2010 at University College Dublin, where she became Professor of Modern German Literature and Culture. She moved to the University of St Andrews in 2011 and then to the University of Warwick, as Professor of German Studies, in 2012. In 2016 she returned to University College Dublin as Director of the UCD Humanities Institute.
In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanitiesand social sciences.Publications
- "Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte": Zur Poetik der Erinnerung in W.G. Sebalds Prosa. Weimar, Vienna, Cologne: Böhlau, 2004.
- Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse: The Politics of Memory. Basingstoke, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- After the Dresden Bombing: Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present. Basingstoke, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
