Dr Claudia Siebrecht

Biography

Dr Claudia Siebrecht joined the faculty at Sussex as lecturer in modern European history in September 2011. Her research and teaching interests focus on the cultural history of war and violence in 20^th Germany and Europe; First World War history and Visual history and her first book The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women’s Art of the First World War will be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Dr Siebrecht was educated at the University of Hamburg and Trinity College Dublin, where she completed her doctoral studies as a Government of Ireland Scholar and was awarded her Ph.D in 2007. She subsequently lectured at the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2008 to 2011 she held a post-doctoral research fellowship and worked on an Irish Research Council funded project on the International History of Concentration Camps convened by Professor Alan Kramer at the Centre for War Studies (CWS) at Trinity College. During her final year at Trinity, she acted as Associate Director of the CWS. In 2010, Dr Siebrecht was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Historical Institute in Washington to work on her current research project on colonial concentration camps and violence in colonial warfare in the early 20^th century.

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Siebrecht, Claudia (2013) The aesthetics of loss: German women's art of the First World War. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199656684 (In Press)

Siebrecht, Claudia (2012) The image of the soldier: portrayals and concepts of martial masculinity from the Wars of Liberation to the First World War in Germany. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 5 (3). p. 261. ISSN 1752-6272

Siebrecht, Claudia (2011) Imagining the absent dead: rituals of bereavement and the place of the war dead in German women's art during the First World War. German History, 29 (2). pp. 202-223. ISSN 0266-3554

Siebrecht, Claudia (2010) Identity, mortality and memory of the self: German soldiers' self-portraits during the First World War. Textuel (Paris), Special Issue De La Guerre dans l'Art, de l'Art dans la Guerre. pp. 205-216.

Siebrecht, Claudia (2008) The Mater Dolorosa on the battlefield: Mourning mothers in German women's art of the First World War. In: Untold war: New perspectives in First World War studies. History of Warfare (49). Brill, pp. 259-291. ISBN 9789004166592

Siebrecht, Claudia (2007) Martial spirit and mobilisation myths: bourgeois women in Germany and their 'ideas of 1914'. In: The Women's Movement in Wartime. International Perspectives, 1914-1919. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 38-52. ISBN 9780230019669