Professor Andrew J. Webber
College:
Churchill College
Positions:
Head of Department
Professor of Modern German and Comparative Culture
Department of German and Dutch
Postal Address:
Churchill College
Storey's Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DS
Email:
ajw12@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
(+44) (0)1223 336211
Fax
(+44) (0)1223 336180
Andrew Webber undertakes research in German and Austrian culture in the modern period, with special interests in narrative writing, film, and cultural theory and analysis. Much of his published work, including the book
The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature (Oxford, 1996), is concerned with issues of identity, both personal and social. He has an active interest in psychoanalysis and in theories of gender and sexuality, with many publications in these areas. He has also published a translation of the 'Schreber Case' for the new Penguin edition of the works of Freud. His work also embraces comparative perspectives, and his book
The European Avant-Garde 1900-1940 appeared in the Polity Press Cultural History of Literature series in 2004. His most recent work has been concerned with urban space, and in particular Berlin. From 2004-2007 he held a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to work on the city, and the resulting book,
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.
Teaching Interests
Andrew Webber teaches across many areas of literary, cultural and intellectual history from 1800 to the present day. Film is a particular interest, and he teaches German cinema at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He also has strong comparative interests and teaches on the Faculty's comparative courses on The Body and European Film as well as convening the MPhil module on The Modern City. He supervises essays and dissertations over a wide range for the MPhils in both European Literature and Culture and Screen Media and Cultures. He also supervises PhD students across a variety of literary, cinematic and other cultural topics, many of them with a particular interest in theoretical approaches to the analysis of cultural objects and developments.
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