Dr. Deirdre byrnes 

                                                              
Deirdre Byrnes is a graduate of University College Cork (BA in German and French, Higher Diploma in Education, MPhil) and University College Dublin (PhD). She studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg (DAAD undergraduate scholarship), the University of Konstanz, the University of Potsdam and the Freie Universität Berlin (DAAD postgraduate scholarship).

She is programme director of Legal German at NUI Galway.                                                    

From 2007 to 2010 she was Vice-Dean for the First Arts Experience in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway.

Contact Details

Room 303, Arts Millennium Building
Tel.: 00 353 9l 492014, Fax: 00 353 91 750572
Email: deirdre byrnes

Consultation Times: Monday 10-11, Wednesday 11-12, or by appointment

Teaching 

Undergraduate
Legal German Programme Director

• GR 106  First Year Legal German
• GR 208  Second Year Legal German
• GR 317  Third Year Legal German

Final Year BA                                 

• Seminar: Memory in Contemporary German Writing
• Contributor to the lecture series History of German Literature and Culture IV

Postgraduate

• MIC500 From Division to Unification: Literary Texts and their Political Contexts (MA International Contemporary Literatures and Media)

Publications

Book

Rereading Monika Maron: Text, Counter-Text and Context (Peter Lang, 2011):

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vLang="E&vID=11422

Articles

• "Writing on the Threshold: Memory, Language and Identity in Kathrin Schmidt's novel Du stirbst nicht", in Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German Language Literature, ed. by Valerie Heffernan and Gillian Pye, German Monitor (forthcoming)
• "The Triumph of the Transferable: Fostering Transferable Skills in the Foreign Language Classroom", in Traditions and Transitions: Curricula for German Studies, ed. by John L. Plews and Barbara Schmenk, Wilfried Laurier Press (forthcoming"
• "Berlin in the Writing of Monika Maron", in  Berlin's Culturescape in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Thomas Bredohl and Michael Zimmermann (University of Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2008), pp. 229-43
• "Monika Marons Beiträge zur Wochenpost: Eine Analyse", in Denkbilder: Festschrift für Eoin Bourke, ed. by Hermann Rasche und Christiane Schönfeld (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004), pp. 248-56
• "Exposing the Gaps in Memory: Forgetting and Remembering in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe", in Cultural Memory: Essays on European Literature and History, ed. by Edric Caldicott and Anne Fuchs (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 147-59
• "Der Körper als Symptom, die Gefühle als Metaphern: Monika Marons Roman Stille Zeile Sechs", in Sentimente, Gefühle, Empfindungen: Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Affektiven von 1770 bis heute, ed. by Anne Fuchs  and Sabine Strümper-Krobb (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003), pp. 221-26

Review Essay

• "Fathers and Sons", Review of Eugen Ruge's novel In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts, Dublin Review of Books, Issue Number 22, Summer 2012, http://www.drb.ie/more_details/12-06-22/Fathers_And_Sons.aspx

Conference Papers

• "Was ist früher?: Recovering Lost Time in Kathrin Schmidt's novel Du stirbst nicht", About Time: Conceptualising and Representing Temporality in German, Swiss and Austrian Culture, University College Dublin, June 2012
• "Presenting the Past: Photography, Memory Gaps and Postmemory in Monika Maron's Family Story Pawels Briefe", Family Ties: Recollection and Representation, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, March 2012
• "Confronting Vater Staat: Constructing and Deconstructing the Nation-State in Monika Maron's Novel Stille Zeile Sechs", Gender, Nation, Text: NUI Galway - UL Gender ARC Symposium, organised by the Gender, Discourse, Identities Thematic Group, NUI Galway, May 2011
• "The Triumph of the Transferable: Teaching Applied German in the Twenty-First Century", German Curricula: Transitions and Traditions, University of Waterloo, Ontario, August 2010
• "Confronting Vater Staat: Politics and Paternity in Monika Maron’s Stille Zeile Sechs", Precarious Parenthood: The Performativity of Family, NUI Galway, June 2009
• "Berlin in the Writing of Monika Maron", Berlin’s Culturescape in the Twentieth Century, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, September 2006
• "Mending a Fractured Family Biography: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Monika Maron’s Pawels Briefe", Contemporary European Women Writers: Gender and Generation, University of Bath, April 2005
• "Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand gehen: Physical and Imaginary Spaces in Monika Maron’s novel Die Überläuferin", Borders and Margins: (Re)defining Space and Place in European Literary and Cultural Discourses, NUI Galway, January 2005 
• "Versteckte Botschaften: Biographers and Biographies in Monika Maron’s novel Endmoränen", 16^th Women in German Studies Annual Conference, Selwyn College, Cambridge, November 2004
• "Rewriting History: Monika Maron’s Stille Zeile Sechs", Hystorical Fictions: Women, History and Authorship, University of Wales, Swansea, August 2003
• "Der Körper als Symptom, die Gefühle als Metaphern: Monika Marons Roman Stille Zeile Sechs", Sentimente, Gefühle, Empfindungen: Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Affektiven von 1770 bis heute, Goethe Institute, Dublin, July 2001  

Research Interests

Deirdre is a member of the NUIG-UL research network Gender ARC (Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society): http://www.genderarc.org/

Membership of Professional Associations

• Secretary of the German Studies Association of Ireland                      
• Member of the Business German in Ireland Group

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