People

Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

Professor Angus Nicholls
Interim Director

Professor Emeritus Rüdiger Görner
Founding Director

If you wish to be added to the Mailing List to hear about upcoming events, please email Jana at j.riedel@qmul.ac.uk

Research Section Convenors

Professor Astrid Köhler
Literature

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf
Language / Linguistics

Professor Angus Nicholls
Intellectual History

Visiting Research Fellows 

Dr Kaltërina Latifi
e. k.latifi@qmul.ac.uk
Website: http://www.latifi.org/

Ms Andrea Meyer Ludowisy
e. andrea.meyerludowisy@london.ac.uk

Dr Nazli Nikjamal
e. nazli.nikjamal@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Jana Riedel
e. j.riedel@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Josh Torabi (Convenor of the Oscar Levy Forum for Nietzsche Studies in the Centre)
e. j.torabi@qmul.ac.uk

Thyssen Fellow (2022 - 22)

Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow (2020–21)

Former Visiting Research Fellows

Angela Villaron Garcia (Leipzig)

Maren Scheurer  (Frankfurt am Main)

Current PhD Students

Rebecca Bourne – ‘Francis Stuart and Sir Roger Casement as Cultural Mediators and Proponents of an Independent Ireland: An Examination of Identity, Irishness, and Independence’
e. r.e.bourne@qmul.ac.uk

Patrick Chester – 'Tremors of Thought: Conceptions of disaster and negativity in Empedoclean Romanticism'
e. p.chester@qmul.ac.uk

Catherine Mason – ‘Idealism and Ideology in the Language-Learning Classroom: A comparative study of the fading canon of English and German literature set for study 1900 to the present’
e. catherine.mason@qmul.ac.uk

Anchit Sathi – ‘Queer parenthood in European modernism: Reflections on Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust’
e. a.a.sathi@qmul.ac.uk

Matthew Shaul – ‘Colour my Dreams? Colour Photography and the Invention of German Identity’
e. m.shaul@qmul.ac.uk

Melanie Xang-Er Tang – ‘Nietzschean Aestheticism in Early Twentieth-Century Literature’
e. m.x.tang@qmul.ac.uk 

Former PhD Students

Dr Margit Dirscherl – 'Heinrich Heines Poetik der Stadt'

Dr John Goodyear – 'Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: Urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism'

Dr Annette Grötler – 'Pikturales Erzählen. Thomas Mann und die bildende Kunst'

Dr Patricia Kemmer – 'Conceptualizing Encounters with Objects: Texts by Neil MacGregor, Edmund de Waal, and Aanchal Malhotra as paradigms of personalized historiography'

Dr Jana Riedel – 'Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Collector, Educator and Cultural Transferant'
e. j.riedel@qmul.ac.uk

Dr Richelle Whitehead – 'Nietzsche's Conception of Comprehension'
e. r.whitehead@qmul.ac.uk