Research output per year
Research output per year
PROF
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Recent and current PhD topics supervised:
German and Austrian Romani writing and the Holocaust
GDR literary responses to the 17 June 1953 uprising
Memory and Heimat in the work of Jenny Erpenbeck and Monica Maron
Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes
Avant-garde manifesto
Heiner Müller's democratic theatre
Trauma and memory in German and French Holocaust literature
Decadence at the German and Scandinavian fin-de-siecle
BA Hons (Manchester), Ph.D (Manchester)
Professor Davies' research specialisms include:
He is happy to discuss supervision of topics in German, Holocaust writing, Translation Studies, comparative literature with German, myth and literature, gender and the body in the period 1880-1945.
In 2004-5 Professor Davies was a Research Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, conducting research into matriarchal myths in German-language culture.
From 2000-2003 he co-directed the AHRB Major Research Project “The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German Literature, 1930-1960” with Professor Stephen Parker and Dr Matthew Philpotts, Manchester
From 1998-2000 he was Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, conducting research into Stalinism and Literature in the GDR.
Taught postgraduate courses
Undergraduate courses
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
1/09/22 → 31/08/24
Project: Research