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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

A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney

Telephone +61 2 9351 3146

Research interests

  • Comparative literature: literature and dance: dance at the beginning of the 20th century and the motif of dance in Expressionist literature (Else Lasker-Schüler); literature and film.
  • 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)
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Teaching and 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

Interviews

2011 "Australia's first production of Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek's play". Jennifer Bowen talks to André Bastian, Andrea Bandhauer, Ulrike Garde, Dion Mills, Melodie Reynolds and Andrea Swift, 27 June Interview on ABC RadioNational.

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Selected publications

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Edited Books

  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2009). Migration and cultural contact: Germany and Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Bandhauer, A., Boss, B., Dunne, K., Mehigan, T., Möllering, M., Veber, M. (2005). New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity. Dunedin: University of Otago.

Book Chapters

  • Bandhauer, A. (2012). 'Wenn nicht du es bist, wer bist du dann?': Wasser, Weiblichkeit und Metamorphosen in Tawadas Schwager in Bordeaux ('If it is not you who is it, then?': Water, Womanhood and Metamorphoses in Yoko Tawada's Schwager in Bordeaux). In Ortrud Gutjahr (Eds.), Yoko Tawada Fremde Wasser: Vorlesungen und wissenschaftliche Beitrage, (pp. 203-217). Tubingen, Germany: konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2012). (Post-)koloniale Perspektiven in Yoko Tawadas Schwager in Bordeaux. In Grucza, Franciszek (Eds.), Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Warschau 2010: Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit, (pp. 115-119). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2009). Missionary love and duty: Frieda Keysser's and Carl Strehlow's letters of courtship 1894-95. In Veber, Maria; Bandhauer, Andrea (Eds.), Migration and cultural contact: Germany and Australia, (pp. 113-127). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2009). Some ideas about forms of cultural contact resulting from German-Australian migration. In Veber, Maria; Bandhauer, Andrea (Eds.), Migration and cultural contact: Germany and Australia, (pp. 1-11). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2007). "Contact Zone" - Frieda Strehlow in Hermannsburg. In Hans-Gert, Roloff (Eds.), Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005, Germanistik im Konflikt der Kulturen, (pp. 29-36). Bern: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2005). Situating gender Studies in a Changing German Studies/Germanistik: Overview. New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity, (pp. 43-49). Dunedin: University of Otago.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2004). Margret Kreidls ''In Allen Einzelheiten. Katalog'' Als Autobiographisches Experiment. In Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete & Saur, Pamela S. (Eds.), Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film, (pp. 77-92). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Borgert, U., Bandhauer, A. (2001). Introduction. In Udo Borgert (Eds.), Women's Words, Women's Works: An Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Plays by Women, (pp. 3-50). United States: Ariadne Press.

Journals

  • Bandhauer, A. (2011). Terror in Elfriede Jelineks Bambiland. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fur germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies), 4, 139-149.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2010). Ambiguity and Morality in Jelinek's Bambiland. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 12(4), 1-7.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2009). Review of Monika Albrecht's "Europa ist nicht di Welt: (post)-kolonialismus in literatur und geschichte der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit". Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fur germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies), 2, 283-287.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2008). Eine Poetologie der Fremde: Emine Sevgi Ozdamars transkulturelle Erinnerungen. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 2008 (1), 199-211.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2007). Dramatische Auftritte: Selbst- und Korperinszenierungen in Margaret Kreidls Ich Bin Eine Konigin und Unter Wasser. Seminar-A Journal of Germanic Studies, 43(4), 469-481.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2006). Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste: An Adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher. Literature and Aesthetics, 16(2), 215-224.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2005). An introduction to the Work of Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 7(1), 1-8.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2005). German Studies Today: Gender and Intercultural Studies. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 13, 75-85.

2012

  • Bandhauer, A. (2012). 'Wenn nicht du es bist, wer bist du dann?': Wasser, Weiblichkeit und Metamorphosen in Tawadas Schwager in Bordeaux ('If it is not you who is it, then?': Water, Womanhood and Metamorphoses in Yoko Tawada's Schwager in Bordeaux). In Ortrud Gutjahr (Eds.), Yoko Tawada Fremde Wasser: Vorlesungen und wissenschaftliche Beitrage, (pp. 203-217). Tubingen, Germany: konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2012). (Post-)koloniale Perspektiven in Yoko Tawadas Schwager in Bordeaux. In Grucza, Franciszek (Eds.), Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Warschau 2010: Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit, (pp. 115-119). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing.

2011

  • Bandhauer, A. (2011). Terror in Elfriede Jelineks Bambiland. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fur germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies), 4, 139-149.

2010

  • Bandhauer, A. (2010). Ambiguity and Morality in Jelinek's Bambiland. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 12(4), 1-7.

2009

  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2009). Migration and cultural contact: Germany and Australia. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2009). Missionary love and duty: Frieda Keysser's and Carl Strehlow's letters of courtship 1894-95. In Veber, Maria; Bandhauer, Andrea (Eds.), Migration and cultural contact: Germany and Australia, (pp. 113-127). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2009). Review of Monika Albrecht's "Europa ist nicht di Welt: (post)-kolonialismus in literatur und geschichte der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit". Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fur germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies), 2, 283-287.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2009). Some ideas about forms of cultural contact resulting from German-Australian migration. In Veber, Maria; Bandhauer, Andrea (Eds.), Migration and cultural contact: Germany and Australia, (pp. 1-11). Sydney: Sydney University Press.

2008

  • Bandhauer, A. (2008). Eine Poetologie der Fremde: Emine Sevgi Ozdamars transkulturelle Erinnerungen. Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 2008 (1), 199-211.

2007

  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2007). "Contact Zone" - Frieda Strehlow in Hermannsburg. In Hans-Gert, Roloff (Eds.), Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005, Germanistik im Konflikt der Kulturen, (pp. 29-36). Bern: Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Bandhauer, A. (2007). Dramatische Auftritte: Selbst- und Korperinszenierungen in Margaret Kreidls Ich Bin Eine Konigin und Unter Wasser. Seminar-A Journal of Germanic Studies, 43(4), 469-481.

2006

  • Bandhauer, A. (2006). Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste: An Adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher. Literature and Aesthetics, 16(2), 215-224.

2005

  • Bandhauer, A. (2005). An introduction to the Work of Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 7(1), 1-8.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2005). German Studies Today: Gender and Intercultural Studies. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 13, 75-85.
  • Bandhauer, A., Boss, B., Dunne, K., Mehigan, T., Möllering, M., Veber, M. (2005). New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity. Dunedin: University of Otago.
  • Bandhauer, A., Veber, M. (2005). Situating gender Studies in a Changing German Studies/Germanistik: Overview. New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity, (pp. 43-49). Dunedin: University of Otago.

2004

  • Bandhauer, A. (2004). Margret Kreidls ''In Allen Einzelheiten. Katalog'' Als Autobiographisches Experiment. In Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete & Saur, Pamela S. (Eds.), Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film, (pp. 77-92). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

2001

  • Borgert, U., Bandhauer, A. (2001). Introduction. In Udo Borgert (Eds.), Women's Words, Women's Works: An Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Plays by Women, (pp. 3-50). United States: Ariadne Press.
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