Dr Michael Minden
- Reader in Modern German Literature and Culture
Contact
Location
- Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL
About
Michael Minden is a graduate of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He teaches German literature, film and culture. He is a Fellow, and erstwhile President, of Jesus College. His books include The German Bildungsroman (1997) and A Cultural History of Modern German Literature (2011), and he has edited books and written articles on a wide range of subjects including Adalbert Stifter, Fritz Lang and Thomas Mann.
Research
Research interests:
European Modernism
Recent research projects:
Literature and Experience
Published works:
‘Social Hope and the Nightmare of History: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster and Stadt der Engel’, Publications of the English Goethe Society, 80, 2011, 196-203
‘ “Grass auseinandergeschrieben:” Günter Grass’s Hundejahre and Mimesis’, German Quarterly, 86.1 (Winter 2013), 25-42
‘Modernism’s Struggle for the Soul: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge and Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina’, German Life and Letters, NS, 47, 3 (July 2014), 320-340