Professor Andrew J. Webber FBA

Modern German and comparative textual and visual culture; film and screen studies, urban studies, cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalytic studies and digital humanities
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Modern languages

Current post

Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture, University of Cambridge; Vice-Master, Churchill College

Past appointments

Tübingen Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair in Global Literary Studies

2015 - 2016

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Acting Director

2009 - 2010

University of Cambridge Reader

2004 - 2010

University of Cambridge University Assistant Lectureship

1994 - 2004

Publications

Arthur Schnitzler digital

Andrew Webber and Others - Published in 2018 by Digital Critical Edition

General co-editor

South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations

Edited by Kerry Bystrom, Ashleigh Harris and Andrew J. Webber - Published in 2018 by Routledge

Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin

Edited by Andrew J. Webber - Published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press

Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites

Andrew Webber, Uta Staiger and Henriette Steiner - Published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan

Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography

Andrew Webber - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press

Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis

Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson - Published in 2008 by Wallflower Press

The European Avant-garde 1900-1940

Andrew Webber - Published in 2004 by Polity Press

The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature

Andrew Webber - Published in 1996 by Clarendon Press

Sexuality and the Sense of Self in the Works of Georg Trakl and Robert Musil

Andrew Webber - Published in 1990 by MHRA, University of London

Online media

Public Lecture

So, What?

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Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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Professor Hilary Owen FBA

The literatures, cultures and cinema of Portugal and Lusophone Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries; feminist theory and gender studies; women's writing and filmmaking; postcolonial theory

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Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA

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