Anthony Bushell (Germanist)

Anthony Bushell (* 1951 ) is a German studies scholar from the United Kingdom who is a professor at Bangor University in Wales.

Bushell received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ulster and his Master of Arts from the University of Warwick . He published his first essay on Marie Luise Kaschnitz in 1981 . In 1989 Bushell received his doctorate from the University of Birmingham with a thesis on the emergence of poetry in West Germany in the early post-war period (title: The Emergence of West German Poetry from the Second World War into the Early Post-War Period: A Study in Poetic Response ). He then received the Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Oxfordshire, which qualifies for the teaching profession . He has been Professor of Modern Languages, and in particular German, at the University of Wales , Bangor , since 1995 . From 1998 to 2005 he was head of the School of Modern Languages there.

Anthony Bushell has published mainly on German-language literature from the post-war period , focusing on short forms such as poetry and Austrian literature and culture . He has written about Hans Lebert , Peter Henisch and Anna Mitgutsch , among others , and has also written handbooks and lexicon entries on the subject. In 2013 he published his monograph Polemical Austria , in which he examines the rhetoric of Austrian national identity from the Austrian Empire to the Second Republic based on the Waldheim affair and on the basis of a wide range of sources.

Bushell was a visiting scholar at St John's College at the University of Oxford . He heads a British-Slovak research group on contemporary Austrian literature and is the general editor of the book series Austrian Studies in Context . He spent four years as editor of the English edition of the journal Foreign Policy ( "German Foreign Affairs Review"), which appeared in 1998. In 2010, he joined the UK debate on the decline in foreign language learning by addressing the dangers of British "linguistic isolationism" in a controversial essay.

Publications

A full list of publications and lectures is available on Bushell's website. Among them in selection:

Monographs

• Emergence of West German Poetry from the Second World War into the Early Post-War Period: A Study in Poetic Response (= Europäische Hochschulschriften. Vol. 1). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1989, ISBN 3-631-41670-9 .
• Poetry in a Provisional State. The Austrian Lyric 1945–1955. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2007, ISBN 978-0-7083-2080-8 .
• Polemical Austria: The Rhetorics of National Identity. From Empire to the Second Republic. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 2013, ISBN 978-0-7083-2604-6 ( review ).

Editorships

• Ed .: Austria, 1945–55. Studies in Political and Cultural Re-emergence. University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1996, ISBN 0-7083-1339-6 .
• Edited with Dagmar Košt'álová: Viewed from the outside. Austria and the Austrian literature in the mirror of the foreign reception (= interactions. Vol. 13). Peter Lang, Bern et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-03-910961-6 .

Web links

• Prof Anthony Bushell. In: Bangor.ac.uk .
• Bushell, Anthony. In: The Writers of Wales Database .
• Entry in the directory of Germanists at the University of Erlangen , last updated on August 12, 2011.

supporting documents

1. ↑ For information on the course of study, see the entry in the directory of Germanists at the University of Erlangen , last updated on August 12, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Vita , in: Katrin carbon, Ritchie Robertson (ed.): A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000. Camden House, Rochester NY 2006, ISBN 1-57113-276-7 , p. 309.
3. ^ Anthony Bushell: Writing in Austria after 1945. The Political, Institutional, and Publishing Context. In: Katrin Kohl, Ritchie Robertson (eds.): A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000. Camden House, Rochester NY 2006, ISBN 1-57113-276-7 , pp. 163-180.
4. ^ John Sandford (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Routledge, Abingdon 1999, ISBN 0-415-12448-4 , various entries.
5. ↑ polemical Austria. ( Memento of the original of December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Book presentation. In: University of Wales Press (website).  
6. ^ About the Author. In: University of Chicago Press (website).
7. ↑ Information on the journal: ISSN  0587-3835 .
8. ↑ Bushell, Anthony. ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Writers of Wales Database .  
9. ^ Anthony Bushell: Linguistic Isolationism. The Decline of Modern Languages ​​in the UK Threatens Our Place in the European Conversation. In: Times Higher Education , May 13, 2010.
10. ↑ Complete list of publications and conference papers. In: Bangor.ac.uk .