Biography

BA Sussex (Linguistics with German)

MA Sussex (Contemporary European Literature)

MA Thesis Title: "The Concept of Memory in W. G. Sebald"

Conference paper (Sussex; "A Virtuoso of the Gaze: The Emergence of a New Historical Consciousness in W. G. Sebald")

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (December 2012)

Andrea is currently translating Walter Benjamin's Das Fieber (1933) for the online journal 'The Public Domain Review'

Role

• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (University of Sussex, December 2012)
• Associate Tutor of German
• Lecturing on a number of European content courses
• Final year dissertation supervisor
• Year abroad dissertation supervisor
• Curator for German VLE, Sussex University
• Associate Tutor Representative
• Research Student
• Temporary course co-ordinator (History department, University of Sussex)
• Student Mentor (UG/PG)
• Andrea is currently a researcher (again)

Contemporary German literature, especially the work of W.G. Sebald. Intertextuality, photography and ideology. Literature that includes detailed narrative case histories, particularly the works of Oliver Sacks and A.R. Luria. Andrea has been instrumental in the organisation of 'Boundaries', an annual conference in the Graduate Centre for the Humanities (Sussex) and has presented a paper titled 'A Virtuoso of the Gaze: The Emergence of a New Historical Consciousness in the Works of W.G. Sebald'

Seminars

• German Language Elective, Year 1
• German Language Elective, Year 2
• German Proficiency, Year 2
• German Language, Advanced, Year 1
• German Proficiency, Ab Initio
• German Proficiency, Intermediate

Lectures

• Europe 1890 - 1945, Year 1
• Europe 1945 - Date, Year 2
• Genres in European Literature, Final Year
• Themes in European Theatre and Cinema A, Final Year
• Guest Lectures: ELT Pre-sessionals

Content Courses

• Introduction to Germany, Year 1
• Aspects of Germany, Year 2
• German Special Subject, Final Year

• German Language, Final Year

Open Language Courses (German)

      Stages 1 - 4

Student Consultation

Andrea Dalton

Office Hour: Tuesdays 11.00 - 12.00

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