Heide Kunzelmann
German Language Teacher, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
Since Sept 2009
Sessional teacher for German at Nottingham University
Since Sept 2011
Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature
Institute of Germanic Studies, School of Advanced Studies
University of London
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/staff/heide-kunzelmann.html
Expertise Summary
Heide Kunzelmann's main research interests lie in Austrian literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with special emphasis on Austrian post-war literature and Austrian post-war avantgarde literature, surrealism, fantastic literature and literary identity-formation. Her recent research also focuses on theories of multiple authorship, in particular author/reader and author/text relationships in the context of systematic complexity and crosses into the field of comparative literature and intertextuality. Her publications include: Kontinuitäten und Brüche. Österreichs literarischer Wiederaufbau nach 1945 (co-edited with Martin Liebscher and Thomas Eicher; 2006); Posthumer Epitext. Die Bibliothek H.C. Artmann (In: Schuster, M.O. (ed.): Aufbau wozu. Neues zu H.C. Artmann [2010]) and Zuhälter der Wörter. H.C. Artmanns erotische Poetologie. (In: Ruthner, C.;Whitinger, R. (eds.): Contested Passions. Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Austrian Literature [2011]). Dr Kunzelmann is Director/Co-Ordinator of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre at the Institute.