Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
BA Hons (Manchester), Ph.D (Manchester)
- Chair of Modern German Studies
- REF Unit of Assessment Coordinator for UoA26
Research Interests
Professor Davies' research specialisms include:
- Holocaust writing and translation
- Translation and Interpreting Studies
- Myth, modernity and literature
- Myths of matriarchy in German culture
- Gender and the body
- German-language literature and culture, 1880-1945
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.
Research activity
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.
Teaching
Taught postgraduate courses
- MSc in Comparative Literature (Holocaust writing)
- MSc Translation Studies
Undergraduate courses
- The Third Reich in Literature and Testimony (final year honours option)
- Antisemitism in literature
- German 1b literature (Franz Kafka)
- Diaspora, Migration, Exile (second year half course)
- Honours Translation
- German Language Paper 1
Keywords
- PT Germanic literature
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‘The Interpreter of Horrors’: The interpreter Wera Kapkajew at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-65)
Davies, P., 20 Jul 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Interpreting and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Christian art, masculine crisis, and the threat of Jewish conversion in Bertha Pappenheim's short stories
Davies, P., Oct 2020, In: German Life and Letters. 73, 4, p. 581-602 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"Neutrale" Instanz - Quelle der Wissensproduktion - Interpretatoren: Bemerkungen zur Rolle der Dolmetscher im Gericht
Davies, P., 5 May 2020, Der Auschwitz-Prozess auf Tonband: Akteure, Zwischentöne, Überlieferung. Steinbacher, S. & Katharina, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, p. 35-62 28 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Holocaust Zeugnis Literatur: 20 Werke wieder gelesen. Ed. by Markus Roth and Sascha Feuchert.
Davies, P., Apr 2019, In: Modern Language Review. 114, 2, p. 412-413 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Persistent Questions: Translation and Holocaust Testimony
Davies, P., 2019, Boydell and Brewer.Research output: Other contribution
Activities
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Knowledge, testimony, translation: interpreters at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
9 Apr 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Translating Cultural Memory in Fiction and Testimony
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
10 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Whose words, whose voices? What thinking about translation can tell us about the Holocaust'
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
22 Jan 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Juridical Testimonies after 1945 – Expectations, Contexts and Comparisons
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
8 Apr 2019 → 9 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Only loss? What thinking about translation can tell us about the Holocaust'
Peter Davies (Invited speaker)
16 Jul 2019Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk