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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Scottish-German Cultural Relations, German Literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, Disability, Literary Translation
Dr. Eleoma Bodammer (née Joshua) was promoted to the position of Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. She holds a PhD in German Literature from the University of Manchester (awarded in 2000), which was fully funded by the British Academy. She also completed a BA Hons in German Studies at the University of Manchester.
Dr. Bodammer has held a number of managerial positions in the School, Department and Section:
She is course organiser for:
Dr Bodammer won the EUSA Teaching Award for Best Assessment Feedback in 2018, and is one of just two members of the DELC academic staff who have won a EUSA award in its ten year history.
She has been nominated for the following EUSA Teaching Awards:
She has also been nominated for the Principal’s Teaching Award in 2011 in the following categories: Best Feedback; The KPMG Teaching Employable Skills Award; The Campbell Award for Teaching in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; The Endsleigh Overall High Performer
Dr Bodammer works in the field of eighteenth and ninteeenth-century German Literary Studies. Her current research interests focus on literary representations of disability in early nineteenth-century German literature.
In the past she has published on the German-language engagement with Robert Burns, German Romanticism, and nineteenth-century German literary landscapes. She has published a monograph on the works of Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750-1819), and journal articles and book chapters on Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Stolberg, Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Schiller.
In 2011-12, Dr. Bodammer was awarded a major research grant of £81,664 for a full-time AHRC Fellowship on the research theme "Scottish-German Cultural Exchange".
She also launched the first volume of the German Department's academic journal, the Edinburgh German Yearbook, with an edited book on Cultural Exchange in German Literature (2007), and hosted a two day international conference on this theme in 2006. In 2010, she edited and contributed to the book Disability in German Literature, Theater and Film, which is the fourth volume of the Edinburgh German Yearbook.
Dr. Bodammer is co-leader and co-founder of the DELC research strand Cultural Encounters - Cultural Dialogues, together with Dr. Alexandra Smith.
I would welcome potential PhD projects in the following fields of eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature:
I am currently supervising the following PhDs:
Karin Bosshard: Linguistic heterogeneity in Scottish novels in translation: Translating A Book of Death and Fish by Ian Stephen (Translation Studies)
Judith Drake: The Case of Disability Theatre in Contemporary Scotland (English Literature)
Joanna Neilly, The Image of the Orient in the Works of E. T. A. Hoffmann (awarded in 2013 and funded by the AHRC)
I recently supervised the following Postgraduate Masters dissertations:
Jonathan Drake, Translating Faust I and II (2018) (MSc Translation Studies - German)
Emilie Kiermeier, Translation and Commentary of Scottish FolkTales (2017) (MSc Translation Studies - German)
Ellie Thornton, Genre, Identity and Film Adaptation: German Folk and Fairy Tales (2017) (MSC Comparative Literature)
Thomas Reid, A Typology of Boredom in German Romantic Literature and its Relationship with Creativity and Artistic Production (2016) (Masters by Research)
DELC Research Strand Co-Leader: Cultural Encounters - Cultural Dialogues
German Literature, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and the German Romantics, University of Manchester
Award Date: 1 Jun 2000
German Studies, Bachelor of Arts, University of Manchester
External Examiner, University of Kent
Oct 2013 → Jun 2018
External Examiner, Durham University
2013 → 2015
External Examiner, Newcastle University
2012 → 2013
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Eleoma Bodammer (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Eleoma Bodammer (Advisor)
Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy
Eleoma Bodammer (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Eleoma Bodammer (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Eleoma Bodammer (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
Bodammer, Eleoma (Recipient), 1 Sept 2023
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Bodammer, Eleoma (Recipient), 17 Nov 2021
Prize: Fellowships awarded competitively
Bodammer, Eleoma (Recipient), 30 Sept 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
British Academy & Learned & Prof Socs
1/02/11 → …
Project: Research
Other Competitive Uk Charity Sources
1/07/09 → …
Project: Research
Katherine Inglis, Eleoma Bodammer & Sakie Chiba-Mooney
1/05/18 → 22/10/18
2 items of Media coverage, 2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Project or Organisational News Item