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Dr Michaela Schrage-Frueh

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Contact Details

Lecturer in German
Arts Millennium Building
University Road
Galway
T: +353 91 493602
E: Michaela.Schrage-Frueh@nuigalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Michaela Schrage-Frueh joined NUI Galway as Lecturer in German in 2017. Prior to this she was a Lecturer in 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 NUI Galway she is Course and Erasmus 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. She is a founding member of WARN (Women and Ageing Research Network; https://womenandageing.network/) and a member of the Network of Cultural Dream Studies (http://www.culturaldreamstudies.eu/).
Currently she is part of the research team 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/).
Michaela is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate work on any aspect of ageing in literature and culture.








Research Interests

  • women 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
  • comparative literature
  • 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 [ARAN Link] [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 [ARAN Link] [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
(2021) 'Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney's Minor Monuments'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2021) 'Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's Der alte König in seinem Exil and Ian Maleney's Minor Monuments' In: Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives. London: Bloomsbury. [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2020) 'Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing'
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2020) 'Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing' In: The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies. :435-447 London: Routledge. [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2020) 'The Aging Contemporary: Aging Families and Generational Connections in Irish Writing'
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2020) 'The Aging Contemporary: Aging Families and Generational Connections in Irish Writing' In: The New Irish Studies. :177-191 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2019) 'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2019) 'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy' In: Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR. :57-71 Trier: WVT. [ARAN Link] [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. :55-71 Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details]
(2017) 'Introduction'
McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2017) 'Introduction' In: Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. :1-20 Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [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. :150-169 Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag. [Details]
(2015) 'Introduction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Farago, Borbala (2015) 'Introduction' In: The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems By Medbh McGuckian. :xiii-xxxvii 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. :121-141 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. :163-175 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). :3-10 Trier: WVT. [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. :111-127 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. :137-146 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. :156-171 Berlin: De Gruyter. [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. :95-114 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. :22-44 Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
(2009) 'Jackie Kay'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'Jackie Kay' In: Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First Century Black British Writers. :166-176 Sumter, S.C: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman. [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. :151-172 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. :123-143 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. :167-178 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. :365-390 Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
(2020) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives.
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (Ed.). (2020) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. London: Routledge. [Details]
(2019) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives.
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, MIchaela (Ed.). (2019) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. London: Taylor and Francis. [Details]
(2018) Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film.
O'Neill, Margaret and Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (Ed.). (2018) Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film. 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.
McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (Ed.). (2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
(2015) Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Farago, Borbala (Ed.). (2015) Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems. 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
(2021) Virtual Exchange in Higher Education: Charting the Irish Experience,
Michaela Schrage-Frueh and Jürgen Wehrmann (2021) Using Autoethnography in e-Tandems for Fostering Glocal Cultural Awareness. [Conference Paper], Virtual Exchange in Higher Education: Charting the Irish Experience, University College Cork and University of Limerick , 17-SEP-21 - 17-SEP-21. [Details]
(2021) Within and Without: Representations of Ageing,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2021) Burst into Song: Healing and Growth through Intergenerational Friendships in Siri Hustvedt's The Summer without Men. [Invited Oral Presentation], Within and Without: Representations of Ageing, University of Lisbon, Portugal , 11-MAY-21 - 11-MAY-21. [Details]
(2021) Analyzing Social Constructions of Ageing Masculinities and Their Cultural Representations in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2021) Ageing, Dementia and Masculinity in Recent Irish Fiction. [Oral Presentation], Analyzing Social Constructions of Ageing Masculinities and Their Cultural Representations in Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas, Södertörn University, Sweden , 24-FEB-21 - 24-FEB-21. [Details]
(2021) Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela and Tracy, Tony (2021) Webinar. [Organising Chair], Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema, NUI Galway , 11-MAR-21 - 11-MAR-21. [Details]
(2020) Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela and Tracy, Tony (2020) Webinar. [Organising Chair], Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Culture, NUI Galway , 20-NOV-20 - 20-NOV-20. [Details]
(2020) Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela and Tracy, Tony (2020) Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature. [Oral Presentation], Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society, NUI Galway , 18-SEP-20 - 18-SEP-20. [Details]
(2020) Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2020) Webinar. [Organising Chair], Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society, NUI Galway , 18-SEP-20 - 18-SEP-20. [Details]
(2020) Webinar: Narratives of Dementia and Ageing in the Time of COVID-19,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2020) Dementia Narratives and Covid-19. [Invited Oral Presentation], Webinar: Narratives of Dementia and Ageing in the Time of COVID-19, University of Huddersfield; University of Aston , 21-JUL-20 - 21-JUL-20. [Details]
(2019) Madrid Mascage Conference,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2019) My Unwanted Widowerhood: Older Widowers in John Banville, Sebastian Barry and Anne Griffin. [Oral Presentation], Madrid Mascage Conference, Madrid, Spain , 29-NOV-19 - 01-DEC-19. [Details]
(2019) IASIL 2019 The New Critical Ground,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2019) Representations of 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) Ageing and Gender in Nuala O'Faolain's Almost There. [Oral Presentation], Women, Ageing and Life Narrative, NUI Galway , 10-MAY-18 - 10-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.”. [Oral Presentation], Traum und Psychoanalyse. Zur Geschichte einer komplizierten Beziehung. (5th workshop of the DFG-funded network Das nächtliche Selbst / The Nocturnal Self), LMU München , 24-NOV-17 - 26-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: Representations of 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: Ageing in Irish Women's Poetry. [Conference Paper], IASIL 2016 “Change”, University College Cork , 25-JUL-16 - 29-JUL-16. [Details]
(2015) GDI (German Teachers’ Association of Ireland) Fortbildungstag,
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) Lyrik im DaF-Unterricht. [Invited Oral Presentation], GDI (German Teachers’ Association of Ireland) Fortbildungstag, University of Limerick , 04-MAY-15 - 04-MAY-15. [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) 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) 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]
(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]

Blog

  Year Publication
(2020) Happy In? Ageing and Ageism in the Age of Coronavirus and Cocooning.
Michaela Schrage-Frueh and Tony Tracy (2020) Happy In? Ageing and Ageism in the Age of Coronavirus and Cocooning. Moore Institute Blog Blog [Details]
(2020) Ageing and Ageism in the Age of Coronavirus and Cocooning.
Michaela Schrage-Frueh and Tony Tracy (2020) Ageing and Ageism in the Age of Coronavirus and Cocooning. RTE Brainstorm Blog [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). ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60(1) 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). ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 58. Book Review [Details]

Encyclopedia Entry

  Year Publication
(2009) Eavan Boland (Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Eavan Boland (Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon). Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Craig Raine (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Craig Raine (Facts on File Companion). New York: Facts on File Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Fleur Adcock (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Fleur Adcock (Facts on File Companion). New York: Facts on File Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Seamus Heaney, Digging (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Seamus Heaney, Digging (Facts on File Companion). New York: Facts on File 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: Facts on File Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Medbh McGuckian (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Medbh McGuckian (Facts on File Companion). New York: Facts on File Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2009) Medbh McGuckian, Eavesdropper (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) Medbh McGuckian, Eavesdropper (Facts on File Companion). New York: Facts on File 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: Facts on File 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: Facts on File Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
(2008) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Facts on File Companion).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2008) Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Facts on File Companion). New York: Facts on File 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: Facts on File 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
2020 Research Support Scheme College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
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

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
German Studies Association of Ireland Ordinary Member /
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Ordinary Member /
Centre for Irish-German Studies (UL) External member /
Women and Ageing Research Network Founding Member /
Business German in Ireland Working Group Ordinary Member /
Network of Cultural Dream Studies Ordinary Member /

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Teaching and Learning Committee, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Member, Plagiarism Advisor (German) 03-FEB-20 /
Research Committee, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures member 01-FEB-19 / 30-JUN-20

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
National University of Ireland, Galway Lecturer (above the bar) 01-SEP-19 /
National University of Ireland, Galway Lecturer (below the bar) 01-MAY-17 / 31-AUG-19
University of Limerick DAAD Lecturer 01-SEP-12 / 30-APR-17
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin 01-SEP-02 / 31-AUG-12

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2020 National University of Ireland, Galway PG Cert Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2004 Johannes Gutenberg-Universiät Mainz Dr. phil English Literature
1999 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Magister Artium English Literature, German Literature, American Studies

Teaching Interests

Business German; German language and German-speaking cultures; literature in German and English; women's writing; dream and literature; literary animal studies; Franz Kafka

Recent Postgraduate Students

  Graduation Name Degree Primary Supervisor
2020 Lisa Heuchemer Master of Arts Y
2019 Joshua O'Regan Master of Arts Y
2013 Patrick Finbar Craig Master of Arts Y

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
Semester 2 (2017/2018) Skills for Studying German GR1101/GR1102 Introduction to German History
Semester 2 (2020/2021) German Cultural Studies GR339 Literature and Dream
Semester 2 (2020/2021) The Art of Reading MIC504 Gender and Ageing
Semester 2 History of German Literature and Culture GR235 Franz Kafka's Animal Stories
Semester 2 (2018/2019) Resisting through Culture MIC6100 Anna Burns, Milkman
Semester 1 and Semester 2 First Year Commerce with German GR141 German culture, society and economy
Semester 1 and Semester 2 Second Year Commerce International with German GR222/GR223 German culture, society and economy; Erasmus preparation; advanced language (B1+); Business German
Semester 1 (2017/2018) Worlds of Fantasy: Literature, Film, Computer Games MIC6101 Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
Semester 1 (2017/2018) German Cultural Studies I GR337 Women's Dreams in German Literature
Semester 1 and 2 Final Year Commerce International with German GR355/GR356 German economy in a global context; post-Erasmus reflective practice and wrap-up; translation (English to German )

Internal Collaborators

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

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country Description of Collaboration
Dr Jürgen Wehrmann Gymnasium GAG Oldenburg GERMANY
Didactic Project: Digital Intercultural Student Exchange