Prof Alison Lewis
School of Languages and Linguistics
Deputy Director of CERC - German Studies
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Qualifications
MA (The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), PhD (University of Adelaide).
Research interests and areas of supervision
Modern German literature, especially 20th century, Gender Studies, German Cultural Studies, East German Secret Police (Stasi), Literature since German Reunification, German cinema, European Studies.
Biography
Alison completed her undergraduate studies and her PhD at the University of Adelaide and obtained an MA degree (Magister Artium) from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has worked at various universities in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane before coming to Melbourne in 1995. Alison is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Selected publications
Book
- Lewis, A. M. (2009) Eine schwierige Ehe: Liebe, Geschlecht und die Geschichte der deutschen Wiecervereinigung im Spiegel der Literatur Rombach, Freiburg: 345 pp.
- Lewis, A. M. (2003) Die Kunst des Verrats: Der Prenzlauer Berg und die Staatssicherheit.Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg: 272 pp.
- Lewis, A. M. (1995) Subverting Patriarchy: Feminism and Fantasy in the Works of Irmtraud Morgner. Berg Publishers, Oxford: x + 315 pp.
Edited Books
- Lewis, A.M., Deiters, F.-J., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., Weller, C. (Eds.) (2010): Limbus 3: Nach der Natur / After Nature. Freiburg. Rombach (Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies)
- Lewis, A., F.-J. Deiters, A. Fliethmann, B. Lang, C. Weller (Eds.) (2009): Limbus 2: Narrative der Arbeit in der deutschen Literatur und Kultur von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart / Narratives of Work in German Literature and Culture from 1800 to the Present Freiburg: Rombach (Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies)
- Lewis, A., F.-J. Deiters, A. Fliethmann, B. Lang, C. Weller (Eds.) (2008): Limbus 1: Erinnerungskrisen/Memory Crises Freiburg: Rombach
Articles and book chapters
- Lewis, A.M. (forthcoming) "Adultery, work and modern "elective affinities" in Sigrid Damm's Ich bin nicht Ottilie and Dieter Wellershoff's Der Liebeswunsch." Festschrift für Philip Thomson. Eds. Christiane Weller, Axel Fliethmann and Franz-Josef Deiters. Röhrig. St Ingbert.
- Lewis, A.M. (forthcoming in 2011) "My dear Erwin has been writing short stories of late; we are infectious': The romancing of collective creativity in the Bitterfelder Weg in Brigitte Reimann's letters and diaries." In: Collective Creativity: Collaborative Work in the Sciences, Literature and the Arts. Ed. Gerhard Fischer and Florian Vassan, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York.
- Lewis, A.M. (forthcoming in 2011) "Karen Duve's This is not a love song." In: The German Language Novel since 1990. Ed. Stuart Taberner, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Commission
- Lewis, A.M. (2011) "Vom Traum zum Trauma: Die Liebe und die 'Ehe' zwischen Ost und West in Monika Marons Animal Triste". In: Intrakulturelle Fremdheit: Inszenierung deutsch-deutscher Differenzen in Literatur, Film und Theater nach der Wende. Ed. Ortrud Gutjahr, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg.
- Lewis, A.M. and A. W. Hurley. (forthcoming) "Love, Popular Culture and "Technologies of Gender" in Karen Duve's Dies ist kein Liebeslied. New German Critique
- Lewis, A.M. (2009): "Work, family and passion and the aporias of socialist women's lives in Sigrid Damm's Ich bin nicht Ottilie (1992)." In: Limbus 2: Narrative der Arbeit in der deutschen Literatur und Kultur von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Birgit Lang, Alison Lewis, Christiane Weller,Rombach, Freiburg: pp. 101-117.