Dr Tara Talwar Windsor

Research interests: 

• German cultural and literary politics (20th century to present)
• Cultural production and social justice
• Exile and (post-)migration
• Creative intellectuals, civil society and the state
• History of gender and emotions

Recent research projects: 

• The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (UKRI/Horizon, University of Cambridge, 2023-2026): https://caponeu.eu/
• Knowing the Secret Police: Secrecy and Knowledge in East German Society (University of Birmingham, 2019-2021): https://research.ncl.ac.uk/secretsstasi/
• Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order (Institute for German and European Studies, Birmingham, 2019-2021) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/research/projects/exile-fascist-germany-spain.aspx
• Societies under German Occupation: Experiences and Everyday Life in World War II (Bergische Universität Wuppertal / KWI Essen, 2013-2015): http://www.societies-under-german-occupation.com/
• Dichter, Denker, Diplomaten: German Writers and Cultural Diplomacy after the First World War (doctoral thesis, 2013)

Published works: 

• 2024. ‘Schwarze deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur – Radikale Vielfalt & Kaleidoskopische Öffentlichkeit’, in Sharon Dodua Otoo, Patricia Eckermann & Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (eds.), Resonanzen. Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival. Eine Dokumentation (Berlin: Literarische Diverse).
• 2024. ‘A Woman Between Exiles: Gender, Emotions and Non-Conformity in Irmgard Keun’s Private and Fictional Writings, 1933-1936’ in Elisenda Marcer (ed.), Culture in Exile: Comparative Perspectives on Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 97-123.
• 2024. ‘Epistolary Interventions, Epistemic Insurrections: Creative Writers, Open Letters, and Solidarity with the “Womxn, Life, Freedom” Movement in Contemporary Postmigrant Germany’ in Selma Rezgui, Laura M. Sturtz & Tara T. Windsor (eds.) Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions (Rochester NY: Camden House), pp. 209-240.
• 2024. ‘Introduction’, with Laura Marie Sturtz & Selma Rezgui, in Selma Rezgui, Laura M. Sturtz & Tara T. Windsor (eds.) Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions (Rochester NY: Camden House), pp. 1-33.
• 2024. ‘Introduction: Literature, Politics, Possibility’, with Sarah Colvin, German Life & Letters, 77:1, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12396
• 2024.  '"Visionen vom idealen Geschichte-Schreiben und Geschichte-Machen”: Epistemic (In)Justice and Insurrection in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Historical and Memory Activism’, German Life & Letters. 77:1, 10-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12398
• 2022. ‘Literature as Knowledge: Samizdat and Underground Revelation’, with Sara Jones, in Aoife Ní Chroidheáin (ed.) Dangerous Creations: Papers from a Roundtable Discussion (Oxford: Taylor Institution Library), pp. 24-33.
• 2021. ‘Extended Arm of Reich Foreign Policy? Literary Internationalisms, Cultural Diplomacies and the First German PEN Club in the Weimar Republic’, Contemporary European History, 30:2, 181-197 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777320000600. 
• 2020. ‘Empire, Authorship and Völkisch Fairy Tales: Hans Friedrich Blunck and the Re-invention of Tradition after World War I’, Oxford German Studies, 49:4, 363-379 https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2020.1840814. 
• 2020. ‘Aftermath: German Culture in the Wake of World War I’, with Catherine Smale, Oxford German Studies, 49:4, 329-335 https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2020.1840809. 
• 2020. ‘Marginalized Memories & Multi-layered Narratives of the Great War in Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone (2014)’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 56:2, 229-246 https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa005. 
• 2018. ‘“The domain of the young as the generation of the future”: Student Agency and Anglo-German Exchange after the Great War’ in Marie-Eve Chagnon & Tomas Irish (eds.), The Academic World in the Era of the Great War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 163–187 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95266-3_8. 
• 2014. ‘Between Cultural Conflict and Cultural Contact: German Writers and Cultural Diplomacy in the Aftermath of the First World War’ in Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton & Pierre Purseigle (eds.), Aftermath - Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989 (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 109–127.
• 2014. ‘Rekindling Contact: Anglo-German Academic Exchange after the First World War’ in Heather Ellis & Ulrike Kirchberger (eds.), Anglo-German Scholarly Relations in the Long Nineteenth Century (Leiden: Brill), pp. 212–231.