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Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
- Professor of Modern German Studies
- President, British and Irish Association for German Studies
BA Hons German and Russian (Manchester), Ph.D (Manchester)
Research Interests
Professor Davies' research specialisms include:
- Holocaust writing and translation
- Translation and Interpreting Studies
- German-language literature and culture, 1880-1945
He is happy to discuss supervision of topics in German, Holocaust writing, Translation Studies, German literature and comparative literature with German, in the period 1880 to the present.
Research activity
2022-24: Leverhulme Trust research fellow with the project "How are victims’ voices heard? Interpreting and translation at a Holocaust trial"
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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Konsekutivdolmetschen beim Ersten Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess: Schwierigkeiten der Kommunikation über genozidale Gewalt
Translated title of the contribution :Consecutive interpreting at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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On a First Viewing of the New Film of Peter Weiss’ “Die Ermittlung” (“The Investigation”)
Davies, P., 25 Aug 2025Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
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The First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965
Davies, P., 12 Aug 2025, The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Cushman, S., Pettitt, J. & Williams, D. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Voices in the dark: German radio dramas and the gas chambers
Davies, P., 25 Jul 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History'.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Interpreters at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: How is a Witness Heard?
Davies, P., 12 Jun 2025, 1st ed. Bloomsbury . 312 p. (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Activities
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Who speaks and who hears? Networks, gatekeeping, voices, translation
Davies, P. (Assessor)
9 Jan 2026Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies Online Conference
Davies, P. (Organiser)
2 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Tonbandaufnahmen aus NS-Prozessen als Quellen der Holocaust-Forschung
Davies, P. (Invited speaker)
6 Dec 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The Testimonies of Olga Lengyel
Davies, P. (Speaker) & Holtschneider, H. (Speaker)
8 Nov 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Interpreting at the The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Davies, P. (Keynote speaker)
21 Sept 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Interdisciplinary interpretations of multiple testimonies of female physicians in Auschwitz
Holtschneider, H. (Principal Investigator) & Davies, P. (Co-investigator)
1/10/24 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Holocaust Writing and Translation
Davies, P. (Principal Investigator)
Other Competitive Uk Charity Sources
1/09/10 → …
Project: Research
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How are Victims' Voices Heard? Interpreting and Translation at a Holocaust Trial
Davies, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/22 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
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How are Victims' Voices Heard? Interpreting and Translation at a Holocaust Trial
Davies, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/22 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
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Holocaust writing and translation
Davies, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/10 → 30/04/11
Project: Research