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Dr Andrea Bandhauer

PhD (Dr phil Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Senior Lecturer, Director of the International and Comparative Literary Studies Program
Room 520, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 3146

Dr Andrea Bandhauer is a lecturer for German and the Director of the International and Comparative Literature Program

Research areas

  • Comparative literature: literature and dance: dance at the beginning of the 20th century and the motif of dance in Expressionist literature (Else Lasker-Schüler)
  • Identity and alterity: ‘Foreignness in contemporary German literature’ (e.g. Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Yoko Tawada)
  • Migration: Germany to Australia (Carl and Frieda Strehlow)
  • Contemporary Austrian literature (Elfriede Jelinek, Marlene Streeruwitz, Margret Kreidl)

Selected publications

Books (ed)

  • Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber (eds), Intercultural Migrations: Germany Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009.
  • Andrea Bandhauer, Bettina Boss, Kerry Dunne, Tim Mehigan, Martina Möllering and Maria Veber (eds), New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity. Dunedin: University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures. German Section, 2005.

Book Chapters

  • Andrea Bandhauer. "'Wenn nicht du es bist, wer bist du dann?' Wasser, Weiblichkeit und Metamorphose in Yoko Tawadas Schwager in Bordeaux." Korkursbuch-Verlag, Tübingen. (Forthcoming in spring 2012.)
  • Andrea Bandhauer. "(Post)-koloniale Perspektiven in Yoko Tawadas Schwager in Bordeaux.“ In: Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit. Akten vom XII. Kongress der IVG, Warschau, 30.7.-7.8.2010.
  • Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “Some ideas about Forms of Cultural Contact resulting from German-Australian Migration.” In: Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber (eds), Intercultural Migrations: Germany Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009, 1-13.
  • Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “Missionary Love and Duty: Frieda Keysser’s and Carl Strehlow’s Letters of Courtship 1894-1895". In: Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber (eds), Intercultural Migrations: Germany Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009, 131-147.
  • Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “Situating Gender Studies in Changing German Studies/Germanistik. Overview.” In: Andrea Bandhauer, Bettina Boss, Kerry Dunne, Tim Mehigan, Martina Möllering and Maria Veber, New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity. Dunedin: University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures. German Section, 2005, 43-50.
  • Andrea Bandhauer: “Margret Kreidls In allen Einzelheiten. Katalog als autobiographisches Experiment.” (Margret Kreidl’s In Full Detail. A Catalogue as an Autobiographical Experiment). In: Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film. Eds. Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete and Pamela S. Saur. New York: Peter Lang, 2004, 77-92.
  • Andrea Bandhauer and Udo Borgert: “Introduction.” In: Women's Words, Women's Works. An Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Plays by Women. Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2001, 3-49.

Refereed Articles

  • Andrea Bandhauer. “Terror in Elfriede Jelineks Bambiland.” in: Terror und Form/Terror and Form. Limbus-Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft/Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. 4 (September, 2011): 139-149.
  • Bandhauer, Andrea. "Ambiguity and Morality in Jelinek's Bambiland." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 12.4 (2010): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol12/iss4/12
  • Andrea Bandhauer: Eine Poetologie der Fremde: Emine Sevgi Özdamars transkulturelle Erinnerungen. In: Erinnerungskrisen – Memory Crises. Limbus-Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft/Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. Franz-Josef Deiters et al. (eds.) Freiburg i. Br., Berlin, Wien: Rombach, 2008: 199-211.
  • Andrea Bandhauer: “Dramatische Auftritte: Selbst- und Körperinszenierungen in Margret Kreidls Ich bin eine Königin und Unter Wasser” Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, (November 2007): 469-481.
  • Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “Frieda Strehlow: Eine Missionarsfrau in Australien.” Akten des internationalen Germanistenverbandes. (Paris 2007): 29-36.
  • Andrea Bandhauer: “Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste: An Adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Player.” Literature and Aesthetics 2 (2006): 269-289.
  • Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “German Studies Today: Gender and Intercultural Studies” for Modern Greek Studies, 13 (2005): 75-85.
  • Andrea Bandhauer: “An Introduction to the Work of Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004.” CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal. Purdue University Press, 7.1 (March 2005), pp. 11. (http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb05-1/contents05-1.html)
  • Andrea Bandhauer: "Dichterin und Tänzerin: Tanz als poetologischer Entwurf in Else Lasker-Schülers Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad", Seminar 35:2 (May 1999): 107-21.
  • Andrea Bandhauer "Virtuelle Landeskunde oder die Grenzen des globalen Dorfes", Fremdsprache Deutsch, 1 (1998): 51-53.
  • Andrea Bandhauer Inge Stocker: "Australische Sprachpolitik und Deutsch in Australien", ÖDaF Mitteilungen, 2 (1997): 4-10.
  • Andrea Bandhauer: "'Unermüdlicher tanzte nie der Tanz': Else Lasker-Schülers moderne Tanzbilder', Seminar, 32:2 (1996): 129-42.

Book reviews

  • Ulrike Garde and Anne-Rose Meyer (eds.) Belonging and Exclusion: Case Studies in Recent Australian and German Literature, Film and Theatre. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Reviewed by Andrea Bandhauer for Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft/Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol. 2 (2009)
  • Monika Albrecht. "Europa ist nicht die Welt." (Post)-Kolonialismus in Literatur und Geschichte der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2008. Reviewed by Andrea Bandhauer for Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft/Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol. 3 (2010)
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Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

  • Coordinator of all junior units of study
  • GRMN2632 - Early 20th Century German Culture
  • GRMN4011 - Hons A: Film Adaptations of German Language Literature

Supervision areas

  • Contemporary Literature in German
  • Comparative literature:
    International and Comparative Literature Studies
  • Literary theory
  • Gender theory
  • German as a Foreign Language
  • Literature and dance: Body images in modern literature (esp. Else Lasker-Schuler)
  • Austrian literature (Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Marlene Streeruwitz, Margret Kreidl, etc.)
  • "Inszenierte Autobiographien": Fiction and autobiography (e.g. Margret Kreidl)
  • Identity and alterity: Foreignness in contemporary German literature (e.g. Yoko Tawada, Emine Sevgi Özdamar)
  • Language policies
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