This page is intended as a voluntary registry of work in progress on the UK academic scene in Austrian Studies,
offering a useful point of contact between researchers, publishers, departments and professors, and a
springboard to collaborative work, profile-building and the dissemination of research. Listings
are broken down by category.
THESES IN PROGRESS
Michael Carter-Sinclair, King's College, London: 'Viennese Culture And Politics, 1861 To 1938: Everyday Expressions Of
"German" Identity'
Supervised by Dr Michael Rowe.
[contact: e-mail]
Raymond Coffer, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies: Richard Gerstl and Arnold Schönberg.
Supervised by Rüdiger Görner and Charmian Brinson.
[contact: e-mail]
Nicolas De Costa, University of Birmingham: 'Sisyphus and Dried Peas:
The Occupation of Austria by the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Negotiations for the State Treaty,
1945-1955'
[contact: e-mail]
Wolfgang Deicke, University of Warwick (currently Tutor in Politics, Ruskin College, Oxford): Austrian Political Parties, Viennese Politics, FPÖ/BZÖ,
Populism, Nationalism and Identity Politics [contact: e-mail]
Béatrice Harding, University of Essex: Representations of the Alps, 1900-45 (cultural history, painting, architecture, photography and film). Supervised by Professor Peter Vergo
[contact: e-mail]
Aine Mcmurtry, University of Oxford: 'Problems of language and form in the late work of
Ingeborg Bachmann'. Supervised by Georgina Paul and Charlie Louth.
[contact:
e-mail]
Anthony Murphy, part-time lecturer in Sociology, University of Bradford: the rise of Right-wing Populism in Austria in the 1990s
[contact: e-mail] ¦ [Departmental page]
WORKING PAPERS
Ernest Schonfield: Franz Kafka's influence on Thomas Bernhard
[Web page]
Dr Leslie Topp (project leader), and others: AHRC-funded, 4-year research project, Madness and Modernity: Architecture, Art and Mental Illness in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire, 1890-1914 [show details]
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity: Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38 by Robert Pyrah (Oxford:
Legenda, 2007), forthcoming ISBN-13: 9781904350675
show details
The Camden House History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000, edited by Katrin Kohl and Ritchie Robertson
(part of the Camden House History of German Literature).
Besides the editors, the contributors are Andrew Barker, Judith Beniston, Anthony Bushell, Allyson Fiddler, Murray Hall, Jonathan Long, Dagmar Lorenz, Janet Stewart and Juliane Vogel. The volume is scheduled to appear in 2006.
