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German staff

For further details on our German researchers’ areas of specialisms and their publications, click on the links below.

Professor Gertrud Reershemius, Professor in German Linguistics  

Specialisms: German non-standard varieties, West-Germanic minority languages (Yiddish and Low German), language contact, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, teaching and learning German as a second or other language, German-Jewish Studies. g.k.reershemius@aston.ac.uk


Professor Christina Schäffner, Professor in Translation Studies

Specialisms: Translation and politics, critical discourse analysis, political discourse analysis, metaphor in translation, translation didactics. c.schaeffner@aston.ac.uk

Dr Uwe Schütte, Reader in German Literature

Specialisms: 20th century German and Austrian literature, extremism in the arts and politics, psychopathology, popular culture, history of socialism u.schutte@aston.ac.uk.

Dr Stefan Manz, Senior Lecturer in German History

Specialisms: Migration studies, Anglo-German relations, German history/politics/area studies. s.manz@aston.ac.uk

Dr Claudia Gremler, Lecturer in German

Specialisms: Modern German literature, film, representations of the North in literature and film, cultural relations between Germany and Scandinavia, Thomas Mann, German business environment. C.Gremler@aston.ac.uk.