Andrea Hammel
Andrea Hammel
On 1 March 2004 Dr Hammel was appointed AHRC Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for the AHRC-funded project to create an online Database of British Archival Resources Relating to German-speaking Refugees, 1933-1950 (BARGE). Previously, Andrea Hammel had been the Research Coordinator for a pilot study funded under the British Academy larger grants scheme entitled 'The Kindertransport Children: Identity, Adaptation and Trauma', also located at the Centre. Andrea Hammel studied English, German and Comparative Literature and Sociology at the University of Essex and Sussex. Her DPhil dissertation on 'Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing: The Novels of Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen' is currently prepared for publication with Peter Lang at the end of 2005. Her research interest include Exile Studies, women’s writing in English and German and autobiographical texts. She has organised numerous conferences and teaches German and Cultural Studies.
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
2004 Kindertransporte 1938/39. Rescue and Intergration, Special issue of Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 23, No.1, guest edited by Wolfgang Benz, Claudia Curio and Andrea Hammel
2003 Die Kindertransport e1938/39. Rettung und Integration, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, co-edited with Wolfgang Benz und Claudia Curio
2001 Writing after Hitler: the Work of Jakov Lind, University of Wales Press, co-edited with Silke Hassler and Edward Timms
2005 'Between adult narrator and narrated child: autobiographical writing by former members of the Kindertransport' in Journal of Holocaust Studies, (forthcoming)
2004 'The Destabilisation of Personal Histories: Rewriting and Translating Autobiographical Texts by German-Jewish Survivors' in Comparative Critical Studies, Volume 1, Issue 3
2003 'Familienbilder im Spannungsfeld: Autobiographische Texte von ehemaligen Kindertransport-Teilnehmern' in Wolfgang Benz, Claudia Curio, Andrea Hammel (eds) Die Kindertransporte 1938/39, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
2002 'Gender and Migration' in Jon Hughes and Edward Timms (eds), Intellectual Migration and Cultural Transformation, Springer Verlag, Vienna and New York
2002 'Selma Kahn - A Provincial Exile Writer' in Anthony Grenville (ed), Exile Studies Yearbook, Vol.4
2002 'Politisches Schreiben als Frau: Hermynia Zur Mühlen als "proletarisch revolutionäre Schriftstellerin"' in Ernst-Toller-Jahrbuch, Königshausen & Neumann
Contact: a.hammel@sussex.ac.uk