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Dr Michaela Schrage-Frueh

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Biography

Michaela Schrage-Frueh joined NUIG as Lecturer in German in 2017. Prior to this she taught English Literature at Mainz University (where she was awarded her MA and PhD) and spent five years as DAAD-Lecturer at the University of Limerick.
At NUIG she is  Erasmus and course coordinator of BCommerce International with German and teaches classes on German language, literature and culture to Commerce and Arts students. Her main research interests include gender and ageing studies; cultural, literary and philosophical dream studies and German-Irish Studies and she has published widely in these areas. She is a founding member of WARN (Women and Ageing Research Network; https://womenandageingnetwork.wordpress.com/) and a member of the Network of Cultural Dream Studies (http://www.culturaldreamstudies.eu/).
Currently she is a research team member of the Gender-Net Plus ERA-Net project "MASCAGE - Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas" (2019-2022) (https://www.mascage.eu/).








Research Interests

  • gender and ageing in literature and culture
  • cultural, literary and philosophical dream studies
  • poetry and fiction in German and English
  • women's writing from the eighteenth century to the present
  • Irish literature and culture
  • German-Irish cultural connections



Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2019) 'Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives (Editorial)'
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2019) 'Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives (Editorial)'. Life Writing, :1-8 [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'Introduction: Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film'
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2018) 'Introduction: Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film'. Nordic Irish Studies, 17 (1):1-12 [Details]
(2018) 'Reimagining the Fourth Age: The Ageing Mother in the Poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2018) 'Reimagining the Fourth Age: The Ageing Mother in the Poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan'. Nordic Irish Studies, 17 (1):77-93 [Details]
(2017) 'Blurring the Boundaries: Dreaming Children in Katherine Mansfield's Sun and Moon and Daphne du Maurier's The Pool'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2017) 'Blurring the Boundaries: Dreaming Children in Katherine Mansfield's Sun and Moon and Daphne du Maurier's The Pool'. Journal of the Short Story in English, 69 :15-36 [Details]
(2013) 'Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2013) 'Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction'. Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 6 (2):59-74 [Details]
(2009) 'Transforming that Past: The Healing Power of Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'Transforming that Past: The Healing Power of Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry'. An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture and the Arts, 5 (1):114-126 [Details]
(2009) 'My Heart Beats as Though It Were Hers: Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'My Heart Beats as Though It Were Hers: Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage'. Nordic Irish Studies, 8 :43-56 [Details]
(2005) 'An Interview with Medbh McGuckian'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2005) 'An Interview with Medbh McGuckian'. Contemporary Literature, 46 (1):1-17 [Details]

Books

  Year Publication
(2016) Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2016) Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]
(2004) Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian. Trier: WVT. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2019) 'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy'
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2019) 'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy' In: Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR. Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2017) 'Embarking, Not Dying: Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2017) 'Embarking, Not Dying: Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman' In: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Introduction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret (2017) 'Introduction' In: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]
(2016) 'Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2016) 'Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs' In: Das nächtliche Selbst: Traumwissen und Traumkunst im Jahrhundert der Psychologie. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag. [Details]
(2015) 'Introduction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Farago, Borbala (2015) 'Introduction' In: The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems By Medbh McGuckian. Winston, Salem: Wake Forest Univesity Press. [Details]
(2015) 'Foreigners Within: Identitity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) 'Foreigners Within: Identitity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things' In: The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film. New York et al: Peter Lang. [Details]
(2014) 'Like a Foreigner / in My Native Land: Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First-Century Irish Poetry'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2014) 'Like a Foreigner / in My Native Land: Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First-Century Irish Poetry' In: Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]
(2013) 'Recent Ireland: Visions and Revisions of Irishness from the 1990s to Today: Introduction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Heinz, Sarah; Kirchhofer, Anton; Rennhak, Katharina (2013) 'Recent Ireland: Visions and Revisions of Irishness from the 1990s to Today: Introduction' In: Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings (Section: Recent Ireland). Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2012) 'Aren't We Citizens of the World? Irish Diaspora and Its Discontents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) 'Aren't We Citizens of the World? Irish Diaspora and Its Discontents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You' In: Ireland in / and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges. Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2012) 'The Roots of Art Are in the Dream: Dreams, Literature and Evolution'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) 'The Roots of Art Are in the Dream: Dreams, Literature and Evolution' In: Telling Stories: Literature and Evolution. Berlin: De Gruyter. [Details]
(2012) '(Un-)Writing the Self: Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-century Religious Prophecy'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) '(Un-)Writing the Self: Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-century Religious Prophecy' In: Anglistentag Freiburg 2011: Proceedings. Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2011) 'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk: Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2011) 'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk: Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan' In: The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]
(2010) 'Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2010) 'Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian' In: The Interior of Words: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
(2009) 'So Much Psychic Land to Reclaim: Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'So Much Psychic Land to Reclaim: Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry' In: Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture. New York et al: Peter Lang. [Details]
(2006) 'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate: The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry'
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2006) 'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate: The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry' In: The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
(2005) 'Listening to All: Facetten der englischen Gegenwartslyrik. Ein Nachwort'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2005) 'Listening to All: Facetten der englischen Gegenwartslyrik. Ein Nachwort' In: Wozu Vögel, Bücher, Jazz: Gedichte aus England. Heidelberg: Wunderhorn. [Details]
(2004) 'Subversive Weiblichkeit? Die Frau als Muse, Geliebte und Künstlerin im Werk Friedrich Schlegels und Karoline von Günderrodes'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) 'Subversive Weiblichkeit? Die Frau als Muse, Geliebte und Künstlerin im Werk Friedrich Schlegels und Karoline von Günderrodes' In: Subversive Romantik. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
(2019) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives (Special Issue of Life Writing).
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, MIchaela (Ed.). (2019) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives (Special Issue of Life Writing). London: Taylor and Francis. [Details]
(2018) Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film (Special Issue of Nordic Irish Studies).
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (Ed.). (2018) Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film (Special Issue of Nordic Irish Studies). Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies: Nordic Irish Studies Review 17.1 (2018). [Details]
(2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret (Ed.). (2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
(2015) The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Farago, Borbala (Ed.). (2015) The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian. Winson, Salem: Wake Forest University Press. [Details]
(2013) Anglistentag Potsdam 2012: Proceedings (Section: Recent Ireland).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Heinz, Sarah; Kirchhofer, Anton; Rennhak, Katharina (Ed.). (2013) Anglistentag Potsdam 2012: Proceedings (Section: Recent Ireland). Trier: WVT. [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(2009) 'The Multiplicity of What I Am: Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'The Multiplicity of What I Am: Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay' Folia Litteraria Anglica, 8 :67-78. [Details]

Conference Contributions

  Year Publication
(2019) IASIL 2019 The New Critical Ground,
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2019) Ageing in Recent Irish Poetry. [Conference Paper], IASIL 2019 The New Critical Ground, Trinity College Dublin , 22-JUL-19 - 26-JUL-19. [Details]
(2018) Women, Ageing and Life Narrative,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela and O'Neill, Margaret (2018) Interdisciplinary Symposium. [Organising Chair], Women, Ageing and Life Narrative, NUI Galway , 10-MAY-18 - 11-MAY-18. [Details]
(2018) Women, Ageing and Life Narrative,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2018) No one had asked me, the ageing woman, to write about me: Ageing and Gender in Nuala O'Faolain's Almost There. [Conference Paper], Women, Ageing and Life Narrative, NUI Galway , 10-MAY-18 - 11-MAY-18. [Details]
(2017) Traum und Psychoanalyse. Zur Geschichte einer komplizierten Beziehung. (5th workshop of the DFG-funded network Das nächtliche Selbst / The Nocturnal Self),
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2017) The Cognitive Turn in Dream Studies: Calvin S. Hall and His View of the Freudian Theory of Dreams. [Conference Paper], Traum und Psychoanalyse. Zur Geschichte einer komplizierten Beziehung. (5th workshop of the DFG-funded network Das nächtliche Selbst / The Nocturnal Self), LMU München, Germany , 24-NOV-17 - 25-NOV-17. [Details]
(2017) Irish-German Relations 2017: Between Böll and Brexit. 17th International Conference in German-Irish Studies,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2017) Lyrical Links: Germany in Irish Poetry. [Conference Paper], Irish-German Relations 2017: Between Böll and Brexit. 17th International Conference in German-Irish Studies, University of Limerick , 14-SEP-17 - 16-SEP-17. [Details]
(2016) IASIL 2016 “Change”,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2016) Poems to Grow Old in: Women and Ageing in Irish Poetry. [Conference Paper], IASIL 2016 “Change”, University College Cork , 22-JUL-16 - 24-JUL-16. [Details]
(2015) Traumwissen um 1900. (2nd workshop of the DFG-funded network “Das nächtliche Selbst”),
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im Viktorianischen Traumdiskurs. [Conference Paper], Traumwissen um 1900. (2nd workshop of the DFG-funded network “Das nächtliche Selbst”), Université de Haute-Alsace, Moulouse , 11-SEP-15 - 12-SEP-15. [Details]
(2015) Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) The Theme of Ageing in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian. [Conference Paper], Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives, University of Limerick , 20-MAY-15 - 22-MAY-15. [Details]
(2015) Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela, Cathy McGlynn, Margaret O'Neill (2015) International Conference. [Organising Chair], Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives, University of Limerick , 20-MAY-15 - 22-MAY-15. [Details]
(2015) Consuming Crime: Consumption, Commodification and Consumerism in Crime Fiction, Film and Television,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) Consumerism and Gender in Recent Irish Crime Fiction: Declan Hughes’ The Wrong Kind of Blood and Niamh O’Connor’s Taken. [Conference Paper], Consuming Crime: Consumption, Commodification and Consumerism in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, University of Limerick , 26-JUN-15 - 27-JUN-15. [Details]
(2015) GDI (German Teachers’ Associatioin of Ireland) Fortbildungstag,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) Lyrik im DaF-Unterricht. [Invited Oral Presentation], GDI (German Teachers’ Associatioin of Ireland) Fortbildungstag, University of Limerick , 04-MAY-15 - 04-MAY-15. [Details]
(2014) 15th Limerick Conference in German-Irish Studies (25 Jahre Mauerfall: Reflections on GDR Literature, its Legacy and Connections between the GDR and Ireland,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2014) Reflections of the GDR in Hugo Hamilton’s Fiction. [Conference Paper], 15th Limerick Conference in German-Irish Studies (25 Jahre Mauerfall: Reflections on GDR Literature, its Legacy and Connections between the GDR and Ireland, University of Limerick , 07-NOV-14 - 08-NOV-14. [Details]
(2014) Cognitive Futures in the Humanities,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2014) Dreaming Minds and Their Relevance for Cognitive Literary Studies. [Conference Paper], Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, University of Durham, UK , 23-APR-14 - 26-APR-14. [Details]
(2013) IASIL 2013 “Urban Cultures”,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2013) “Plural Proper Noun: Narrating Dublin in Recent Irish Fiction. [Conference Paper], IASIL 2013 “Urban Cultures”, Queen’s University Belfast, NI , 22-JUL-13 - 26-JUL-13. [Details]
(2013) EFACIS “Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2013) The Migrant Other in Recent Irish Fiction. [Conference Paper], EFACIS “Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands, NUI Galway , 05-JUL-13 - 07-JUL-13. [Details]
(2012) Anglistentag Potsdam,
Schrage-Frueh, MIchaela, Heinz, Sarah, Kirchhofer, Anton, Rennhak, Katharina (2012) Recent Ireland Panel. [Organising Chair], Anglistentag Potsdam, Uniersität Potsdam , 19-SEP-12 - 22-SEP-12. [Details]
(2012) AEDEI conference,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) Celtic Others: Interethnic and Multicultural Encounters in Contemporary Irish Literature: Roundtable. [Conference Paper], AEDEI conference, University of Huelva, Spain , 30-MAY-12 - 01-JUN-12. [Details]
(2012) Symposium: Immersion and the Storyworld,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) Dreaming Fictions, Writing Dreams: Cognitive Immersion in Dreamworlds and Storyworlds. [Conference Paper], Symposium: Immersion and the Storyworld, St. John’s College, University of Oxford, UK , 25-JUN-12 - 26-JUN-12. [Details]
(2011) Anglistentag Freiburg,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2011) Women’s Religious Prophecy: A Distinct Seventeenth-Century Genre?. [Conference Paper], Anglistentag Freiburg, Universität Freiburg, Germany , 18-SEP-11 - 21-SEP-11. [Details]
(2010) Anglistentag Saarbrücken,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2010) The Land of the Luas’: Dublin’s ‘Fast City’ in Contemporary Irish Writing. [Conference Paper], Anglistentag Saarbrücken, Univerität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany , 19-SEP-10 - 21-SEP-10. [Details]
(2010) Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Violence, Trauma and Loss,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2010) The Irish Trauma Novel. [Conference Paper], Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Violence, Trauma and Loss, JGU Mainz , 17-SEP-10 - 18-SEP-10. [Details]
(2010) IASIL 2010 “New and Old Knowledges”,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2010) Famine as Metaphor and Memory in Contemporary Irish Fiction. [Conference Paper], IASIL 2010 “New and Old Knowledges”, University of Maynooth , 26-JUL-10 - 27-JUL-10. [Details]
(2010) Bringing Dreams and Community Together, International Association for the Study of Dreams, Conference 2010,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2010) Dreams and the Literary Imagination. [Conference Paper], Bringing Dreams and Community Together, International Association for the Study of Dreams, Conference 2010, Asheville, NC, USA , 27-JUN-10 - 30-JUN-10. [Details]
(2009) Ireland in / and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges, EFACIS Conference,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Aren’t We Citizens of the World?’ Diaspora and Its Discontents in Contemporary Irish Literature. [Conference Paper], Ireland in / and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges, EFACIS Conference, University of Vienna, Austria , 03-SEP-09 - 06-SEP-09. [Details]
(2009) Earth Dreaming: 25 Years of Carrying the Dream Forward”, International Association for the Study of Dreams, Conference 2009,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Dreaming Fictions, Writing Dreams: Intersections Between Dreams and Literature. [Conference Paper], Earth Dreaming: 25 Years of Carrying the Dream Forward”, International Association for the Study of Dreams, Conference 2009, Chicago, USA , 26-JUN-09 - 30-JUN-09. [Details]
(2009) Playfulness, Light(ness) and Air in Irish Literature and Culture,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry. [Keynote Address], Playfulness, Light(ness) and Air in Irish Literature and Culture, University of Lodz, Poland , 04-JUN-09 - 05-JUN-09. [Details]
(2009) (“Into the Heartland of the Ordinary,” Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) The ‘Ordinary Woman’ in Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You. [Conference Paper], (“Into the Heartland of the Ordinary,” Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009, NUI Galway , 10-JUN-09 - 13-JUN-09. [Details]
(2009) Evolution und Literatur – Evolution der Literatur,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'The Roots of Art Are in the Dream’: Dreams, Literature and Evolution. [Conference Paper], Evolution und Literatur – Evolution der Literatur, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany , 22-MAY-09 - 24-MAY-09. [Details]
(2008) Third Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2008) The Science of Dreams in Early Modern Literature and Culture. [Conference Paper], Third Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science, Keele University, UK , 27-MAR-08 - 29-MAR-08. [Details]
(2007) Irish Women Writers: National and European Contexts,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2007) My Heart Beats As Though It Were / Hers: Medbh McGuckian’s Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi’s Cottage (1991). [Conference Paper], Irish Women Writers: National and European Contexts, University of Leuven, Belgium , 24-OCT-07 - 25-OCT-07. [Details]
(2005) Gravity Regulated: Spatializing and Localizing Selves in Cultures,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2005) Speaking as the North: Self and Space in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian. [Conference Paper], Gravity Regulated: Spatializing and Localizing Selves in Cultures, JGU Mainz , 13-MAY-05 - 14-MAY-05. [Details]
(2005) 5. Mainzer Workshop Frauen- und Genderforschung, Maskulinität,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2005) “Obsolete, Dinosaurs, Yesterday’s News? Die Krise der Maskulinität in Peter Cattaneos The Full Monty. [Conference Paper], 5. Mainzer Workshop Frauen- und Genderforschung, Maskulinität, JGU Mainz , 22-JAN-05 - 22-JAN-05. [Details]
(2004) ASNEL Conference,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) The Multiplicity of What I Am’: Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay. [Conference Paper], ASNEL Conference, University of Frankfurt/Main , 01-MAY-04 - 03-MAY-04. [Details]
(2004) Liminal Borderlands: Ireland Past, Present and Future, Nordic Irish Studies Conference,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) The Otherworld as Psychic Space in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. [Conference Paper], Liminal Borderlands: Ireland Past, Present and Future, Nordic Irish Studies Conference, University of Dalarna, Sweden , 21-APR-04 - 24-APR-04. [Details]
(2004) 4. Mainzer Workshop Frauen- und Genderforschung, “Gender und Intermedialität”,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) Manderley in Hollywood: Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca und Alfred Hitchcocks Verfilmung im Vergleich. [Conference Paper], 4. Mainzer Workshop Frauen- und Genderforschung, “Gender und Intermedialität”, JGU Mainz , 24-JAN-04 - 24-JAN-04. [Details]
(2003) 3. Mainzer Workshop Frauen- und Genderforschung, “Gender und Globalisierung,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2003) Globale Identitäten? Gender und Diaspora im irischen Kontext. [Conference Paper], 3. Mainzer Workshop Frauen- und Genderforschung, “Gender und Globalisierung, JGU Mainz , 17-JAN-03 - 17-JAN-03. [Details]
(2002) Beyond Sex and Gender: The Future of Women’s Studies? Women’s Network Association UK Conference,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2002) 'She is Hope’s Brother’: Medbh McGuckian’s Paradoxes of Sex and Gender in the Context of Postcolonialism. [Conference Paper], Beyond Sex and Gender: The Future of Women’s Studies? Women’s Network Association UK Conference, Queen's University Belfast , 01-SEP-02 - 03-SEP-02. [Details]

Book Review

  Year Publication
(2015) Review of Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity. University of Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2012, Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014, and Borbála Faragó, Medbh McGuckian. Cork: Cork UP, 2014.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) Review of Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity. University of Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2012, Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014, and Borbála Faragó, Medbh McGuckian. Cork: Cork UP, 2014. Irish University Review 45.2: Book Review [Details]
(2012) Review of Ruth Barton, ed. Screening Irish-America (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) Review of Ruth Barton, ed. Screening Irish-America (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009). Book Review [Details]
(2000) Review of Bianca Ross, Britannia et Hibernia: Nationale und kulturelle Identitäten im Irland des 17. Jahrhunderts (Heidelberg: Winter, 1998).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2000) Review of Bianca Ross, Britannia et Hibernia: Nationale und kulturelle Identitäten im Irland des 17. Jahrhunderts (Heidelberg: Winter, 1998). Book Review [Details]

Encyclopedia Entry

  Year Publication
(2009) Jackie Kay (Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century Black British Writers).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Jackie Kay (Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century Black British Writers). Sumter, S.C: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Eavan Boland (Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Eavan Boland (Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon). Stuttgart and Weimar: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Craig Raine (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Craig Raine (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Fleur Adcock (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Fleur Adcock (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Seamus Heaney, Digging (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Seamus Heaney, Digging (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’ (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’ (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Medbh McGuckian (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Medbh McGuckian (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Medbh McGuckian, Eavesdropper (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Medbh McGuckian, Eavesdropper (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Medbh McGuckian, Open Rose (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Medbh McGuckian, Open Rose (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Medbh McGuckian, The Seed-Picture (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Medbh McGuckian, The Seed-Picture (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2008) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2008) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2008) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Marvellous Grass (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2008) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Marvellous Grass (Facts on File Companion). New York: Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

Invited Lectures

  Year Publication
(2018) Gegen die Unsichtbarkeit: Weibliches Altern und autobiographisches Erzählen.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2018) Gegen die Unsichtbarkeit: Weibliches Altern und autobiographisches Erzählen. Invited Lectures [Details]
(2018) Mother Ireland? Reimagining the Mother in Recent Irish Poetry.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2018) Mother Ireland? Reimagining the Mother in Recent Irish Poetry. Invited Lectures [Details]
(2009) Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry (Invited Plenary Lecture).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry (Invited Plenary Lecture). Invited Lectures [Details]
(2007) Rewriting Cathleen: Irish Women Poets’ Revisionary Strategies.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2007) Rewriting Cathleen: Irish Women Poets’ Revisionary Strategies. Invited Lectures [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2019 Research Support Scheme College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
2017 Research Support Scheme College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
2016 Book Completion Award University of Limerick, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
2016 IRC New Foundations Scheme Award (co-applicant) Irish Research Council
2015 IRC New Foundations Scheme Award (lead applicant) Irish Research Council
2004 Doctoral Dissertation Award Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2000 Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland Pfalz Rheinland Pfalz

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Research Committee, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures member 01-FEB-19 /

Teaching Interests

Business German, German language and German-speaking cultures, literature in German and English, women's writing, dream and literature

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
Semester 1 and Semester 2 Second Year Commerce International with German GR222/GR223
Semester 2 Resisting through Culture MIC6100 Anna Burns, Milkman
Semester 1 (2017/2018) Worlds of Fantasy: Literature, Film, Computer Games MIC6101 Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
Semester 1 Final Year Commerce International with German GR355
Semester 2 (2017/2018) Skills for Studying German GR1101/GR1102 Introductiom to German History
Semester 1 and Semester 2 First Year Commerce with German GR141
Semester 2 History of German Literature and Culture GR235 Franz Kafka's Animal Stories
Semester 1 (2017/2018) German Cultural Studies I GR337 Women's Dreams in German Literature

Internal Collaborators

  Name Description of Collaboration
Dr Anthony Tracy
MASCAGE - Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas
Dr Margaret O'Neill
Women and Ageing Research Network