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Professor Allyson Fiddler
Professor of German and Austrian Studies
Degree: B.A.(Hons) and Ph.D. (Southampton)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Dynamics of Memories
Current Teaching
GERM 100/101: German Studies Part I
GERM 233: Becoming German: identity-formation in modern German society and culture
DELC 212: Cinema and Society in Europe and Latin America: Thematic and Formal Perspectives
DELC 213: The Writer and the Text in 20th-Century World Literature
DELC 352: Images of Austria: National Identity and Cultural Representation
DELC 320: Dissertation supervision
Research Interests
My research interests encompass contemporary German-speaking culture in a number of forms - literary, filmic, and more broadly socio-political. I'm very interested in the Nobel-prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek and continue to publish articles and chapters on her work, most recently an investigation of the three different formats of her material, Die Ausgesperrten (as novel, film, and radio play).
My main research focus currently is towards a monograph entitled Resisting Haiderisation. This will contextualise and analyse various different forms of cultural resistance to the populist right-wing in Austria. The impetus is presented by the rise to instutional power of Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ) in 2000 when it formed a coalition government with the People's Party. Since that time there have been a great number of works, texts, performances, films, essays, songs and so on that have consciously expressed resistance and criticism of this turn to the right. My book will provide a context for reading some of the more important examples.
Recent publications have focused on intercultural themes in contemporary, Austrian culture, dealing, for example, with Austrian-Slovenian cultural topics and conflicts (see GLL 2005 below) and with multicultural influences in twenty-first century literature and film (see Studies in European Cinema 2006 and A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000, 2006).
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Contemporary German Cultural and Literary Studies, including film studies, single-author/playwright/film-maker studies, women's studies, and especially interested in Austrian Studies
Editorial and International Boards
I am a member of the following international advisory and editorial boards: Modern Austrian Literature, Austrian Studies, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre (based at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, London) and the Elfriede Jelinek Forschungszentrum, Vienna.
Modern Austrian Literature is a journal that comes out of the organisation Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association and this can be visited at: http://malca.org/.
The Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre in Vienna is on line at: http://www.praesens.at/elfriede-jelinek-forschungszentrum/.
Publications
The list below only contains some recent publications, but stops at 2011. Lancaster now lists full publications lists at https://pure.lancs.ac.uk/workspace.xhtml, and this will feed into web pages in due course. In the meantime, do contact me with any specific enquiries.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Allyson Fiddler has 10 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Fiddler, Allyson (2011) Of political intentions and trivial conventions : Erika Pluhar's Die Wahl (2003) and Marlene Streeuwitz's Jessica, 30. (2004). German Life and Letters, 64 (1). pp. 133-144. ISSN ISSN (printed): 0016-8777. ISSN (electronic): 1468-0483
Fiddler, Allyson (2010) A political 'brief': performativity and politicians in short works of Austrian satire. In: Aesthetics and politics in modern German culture : Festschrift in honour of Rhys W. Williams. Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 179-193. ISBN 978-3-03911-355-2
Fiddler, Allyson and Gürtler, Christa and Honegger, Gitta and Janke, Pia and Jürs-Munby, Karen and Clar, Peter (2010) Wie aktuell sind Elfriede Jelineks feministische Theatertexte der 70er und 80er Jahre? In: Jelinek[Jahr]Buch. Praesens Verlag, Vienna, pp. 177-185. ISBN 978-3-7069-0606-7
Fiddler, Allyson (2010) Wie lange bleiben blaue Flecke? Erinnerungen und Gedanken aus Großbritannien zum 10. Jahrestag der schwarz-blauen Koalition. In: Die beschämte Republik. 10 Jahre nach Schwarz-Blau in Österreich. Czernin Verlag, Vienna, pp. 71-77. ISBN 978-3-7076-0313-2
Fiddler, Allyson (2007) Die Ausgesperrten. Intermediale Blickpunkte und Hörweisen. In: Elfriede Jelinek: “Ich will kein Theater”: Mediale Überschreitungen. Diskurse, Kontexte, Impulse (3). Praesens Verlag, Vienna, pp. 307-319. ISBN 978-3706904568
Fiddler, A. L. (2006) Im Netz der Moral : Monologe, Massenmedien und Mythology in Elfriede Jelineks 'Babel'. In: Das Analoge straubt sich gegen das Digitale? Materialitaten des deutschen Theaters in einer Welt des Virtuellen. Theater der Zeit, pp. 101-112.
Fiddler, A. L. (2006) Jelinek : 'Burgtheater'. In: Landmarks in German comedy. Britische und irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (35). Peter Lang, Hamburg, pp. 227-242. ISBN 3039101854 (pbk.)
Fiddler, A. L. (2006) 'Remember me, but ah! forget my fate': Goran Rebic's Picture of 'Balkan Vienna' in Jugofilm (1997). Studies in European Cinema, 3 (3). pp. 201-210. ISSN 1741-1548
Fiddler, A. L. (2006) Shifting boundaries : responses to multiculturalism at the turn of the twenty-first century. In: A history of Austrian literature. Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture . Camden House, Rochester, N.Y., pp. 265-289. ISBN 1571132767 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Fiddler, Allyson (2005) Carinthia, interculturalism, and Austrian national identity : cultural reflections on 10 October 1920. German Life and Letters, 58 (2). pp. 195-210. ISSN 0016-8777
Other Interests and Hobbies
My interests include singing, sailing, swimming and cinema (I do like to alliterate).
Associated Keywords: Austria, Contemporary literature, European, European identity, European languages, Feminist perspectives, Film studies, German, German language, culture and society, Literature and gender, Literature and migration, Literature and politics, Memory, Theatre
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Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 592471
Room: Bowland North, B 82
Office Hour: Monday 11-12(or email to fix a time)
My Events
Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher'; screening and intro
Jelinek in the arena: sport, cultural understanding and translation to page and stage
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