The Department of German Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Cosgrove as Professor of German Studies from January 2015

Mary Cosgrove completed all of her degrees at University College Dublin where she was Lecturer in German from 2002-2004. She was appointed Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh in 2004 where she has been Reader in German since 2012. Her publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (2014); (with Anna Richards, ed.), ‘Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture,’ Edinburgh German Yearbook VI (2012); (with Anne Fuchs and Georg Grote eds.), German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in German Literature, Film and Discourse since 1990 (2006, 2^nd ed. 2010); Grotesque Ambivalence: Melancholy and Mourning the Prose Work of Albert Drach (2004). Research and teaching interests include 20th century German-Jewish literature, post-1945 and contemporary German literature, recent German memory debates, Holocaust historiography, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and European melancholy traditions. Her next project explores the connections between literature, culture and pathology with a particular focus on boredom, sloth, laziness and idleness.

See for more information Professor Cosgrove's webpage on the German Department's website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/german/people/marycosgrove