Tara Windsor
Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Mainz, Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Research Fellow 2011-2012
I am currently Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music at the University of Birmingham, where I am contributing to a comparative project on Inner and Outer Exile in Fascist Germany and Spain.
Before re-joining Birmingham, where I also completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I was Assistant Professor in 20th-Century Continental European History at Trinity College Dublin.
From 2013 to 2015, I was research associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) Essen where I was part of an international research and editorial project entitled ‘World War II – Everyday Life under German Occupation’.
My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Dichter, Denker, Diplomaten: German Writers and Cultural Diplomacy after the First World War (1919-1933)’. The thesis investigates the role played by German writers as intercultural ambassadors after the First World War (WW1). It explores the activities of the German branch of the International PEN Club, an association established to encourage co-operation amongst writers in Europe and beyond after the devastating effects of WW1. The dissertation then examines the international engagement of four writers from across the Weimar Republic’s political and cultural spectrum: Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Ernst Toller and Hans Friedrich Blunck. It compares their representation(s) of Germany and the agendas they pursued on the international stage by analysing the speeches they gave and the institutional frameworks within which they operated. These case studies are viewed in the context of wider developments in cultural diplomacy after WW1, at a time when cultural means were considered increasingly important in Germany’s international relations.
Before re-joining Birmingham, where I also completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I was Assistant Professor in 20th-Century Continental European History at Trinity College Dublin.
From 2013 to 2015, I was research associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) Essen where I was part of an international research and editorial project entitled ‘World War II – Everyday Life under German Occupation’.
My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Dichter, Denker, Diplomaten: German Writers and Cultural Diplomacy after the First World War (1919-1933)’. The thesis investigates the role played by German writers as intercultural ambassadors after the First World War (WW1). It explores the activities of the German branch of the International PEN Club, an association established to encourage co-operation amongst writers in Europe and beyond after the devastating effects of WW1. The dissertation then examines the international engagement of four writers from across the Weimar Republic’s political and cultural spectrum: Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Ernst Toller and Hans Friedrich Blunck. It compares their representation(s) of Germany and the agendas they pursued on the international stage by analysing the speeches they gave and the institutional frameworks within which they operated. These case studies are viewed in the context of wider developments in cultural diplomacy after WW1, at a time when cultural means were considered increasingly important in Germany’s international relations.
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