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Roger Woods

Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts

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Teaching Summary

I teach on German life-writing/autobiography in the Twentieth Century, looking at individuals' accounts of their lives during turning points in German history: the First World War, the Second World… read more

Research Summary

Dissidents and intellectuals in the GDR; East German intellectuals looking back on the GDR; the extreme right in present-day Germany; conservative intellectuals in the 1920s.

Recent Publications

  • 2011. Introduction: The Purposes and Problems of German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century. In: BIRGIT DAHLKE, DENNIS TATE and ROGER WOODS, eds., German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century Camden House.
  • ROGER WOODS, 2009. ‘This new theory of war is nothing but an uninhibited transfer of the principle of art for art’s sake to war.’ Ernst Jünger, Walter Benjamin, and the New Right Journal of War and Culture Studies. 2(1), 53-64
  • 2009. Retold Lives: East German Autobiography after East Germany. In: AXEL GOODBODY, POL O DOCHARTAIGH and DENNIS TATE, eds., Dislocation and Reorientation Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics Rodopi. 245-255
  • WOODS, R.A., 2007. Germany's new Right as culture and politics Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

I teach on German life-writing/autobiography in the Twentieth Century, looking at individuals' accounts of their lives during turning points in German history: the First World War, the Second World War and the Nazi period, the rise and fall of the GDR, and German Unification.

  • 2011. Introduction: The Purposes and Problems of German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century. In: BIRGIT DAHLKE, DENNIS TATE and ROGER WOODS, eds., German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century Camden House.
  • ROGER WOODS, 2009. ‘This new theory of war is nothing but an uninhibited transfer of the principle of art for art’s sake to war.’ Ernst Jünger, Walter Benjamin, and the New Right Journal of War and Culture Studies. 2(1), 53-64
  • 2009. Retold Lives: East German Autobiography after East Germany. In: AXEL GOODBODY, POL O DOCHARTAIGH and DENNIS TATE, eds., Dislocation and Reorientation Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics Rodopi. 245-255
  • WOODS, R.A., 2007. Germany's new Right as culture and politics Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • WOODS, R.A., 2006. On forgetting and remembering: the New Right since German unification. In: FUCHS, A., COSGROVE, M. and GROTE, G., eds., German memory contests: the quest for identity in literature, film and discourse since 1990 Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. 271-286
  • WOODS, R.A., 2006. Ernst Jünger, the new nationalists, and the memory of the First World War. In: LEYDECKER, K., ed., German novelists of the Weimar Republic: intersections of literature and politics Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. 125-140
  • WOODS, R.A., 2005. Affirmative past versus cultural pessimism: the New Right since German unification German Life and Letters. 58(1), 93-107
  • WOODS, R.A., 2004. Die Leiden der jungen Werte: die Neue Rechte als Kultur und Politik. In: GESSENHARTER, W. and PFEIFFER, T., eds., Die neue Rechte: eine Gefahr für die Demokratie? Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 95-105
  • WOODS, R.A., 2004. ÂWhen New Right Culture meets New Right Politics'. In: GöRNER, R., ed., Politics in literature : studies on a Germanic preoccupation from Kleist to Améry 1. 9. München : Iudicium. 156-170
  • WOODS, R.A., 2004. ÂThe New Right: GermanyÃs New Conservative Revolution?Ã, Deutsch Lehren und Lernen Autumn, 2-5
  • WOODS, R.A., 2001. Nationalismus ohne Selbstbewußtsein: von der konservativen Revolution zur Neuen Rechten Baden Baden: Nomos.
  • WOODS, R.A., 1999. 'East Germany in Search of a Voice' East Central Europe. 19(No. 2), 165-178
  • WOODS, R.A., 1999. `THIS NEW THEORY OF WAR IS NOTHING BUT AN UNINHIBITED TRANSFER OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ART FOR ART'S SAKE TO WAR.' ERNST JUNGER, WALTER BENJAMIN, AND THE NEW RIGHT Renaissance and Modern Studies. VOL 42, 82-94
  • WOODS, R.A., 1999. The Culture of the New Right in Germany Today: New Start or Same Old Story?. In: GöRNER, R. and KELLY-HOLMES, H., eds., Vermittlungen. German Studies at the Turn of the Century München : Iudicium. 151-161
  • WOODS, R.A., 1998. Ostdeutsche Literatur und DDR-Vergangenheit. In: ECKART, K., HACKER, J. and MAMPEL, S., eds., Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands. Festschrift zum 20jährigen Bestehen der Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung Berlin : Duncker und Humblot. 189-204
  • WOODS, R.A., 1997. Zwischen politischem Programm Aktivismus und Negation: "Konservative Revolution", Nationalsozialismus und "Neue Rechte". In: EICKHOFF, V. and KOROTIN, I., eds., Sehnsucht nach Schicksal und Tiefe. Der Geist der Konservativen Revolution Wien : Picus Verlag. 40-54
  • WOODS, R.A., 1996. The Conservative revolution in the Weimar Republic Basingstoke : Macmillan.

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