Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
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Tara Talwar Windsor is Postdoctoral Research Associate in EU Horizon/UKRI project ‘The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe’ and co-leads the Cambridge-based research group ‘Cultural Production and Social Justice’. From 2021-23, she was Schröder Research Associate in German at Cambridge with a special remit for Equality and Diversity in German Studies. She specialises in German literary, cultural and intellectual politics from the early 20th century to the present, with particular interest in the role played by creative writers as public intellectuals. Before taking up her post in Cambridge, Dr Windsor was Research Fellow in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham and has also held positions as Research Associate in Modern History at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut) Essen, as Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University and as Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century Continental European History at Trinity College Dublin. She completed her BA (2006), MPhil (2008) and PhD (2013) at the University of Birmingham and was doctoral research fellow at the Institute for European History in Mainz from 2011 to 2012. She has received research awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Historical Institute in Paris and the German Academic Exchange Service.
• German language and literature
• German-English translation
• Translation Studies
• Contemporary German society, politics and memory
• Modern German, European and International History
• German cultural and literary politics (20th century to present)
• Creative intellectuals, civil society and the state
• Exile and (post-)migration
• Cultural responses to war and dictatorship
• History of gender and emotions
- 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/researc...
- 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)
• 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.
