Prof Stephen Parker - research
Research areas
- Bertolt Brecht: A literary biography
- Poetics and biography in 20th-century Germany, especially Brecht and Peter Huchel
- Literary journals, especially Sinn und Form
- 20th-century German literary historiography, particularly 1930-1960
- 20th-century German literature and cultural politics
Research awards
- 1991-2, Research Fellow, John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester
- 1993-4, Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, held at the Free University, Berlin
- 2000-4, Director, AHRC Project 'The Modern Restoration: The discourses of style in German Literature 1930-1960'
- 2009-12, Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust
Current/recent research projects
- Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Biography (supported by the Leverhulme Trust)
- With Matthew Philpotts, Sinn und Form: The Anatomy of a Literary Journal (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2009)
- With Peter Davies and Mathew Philpotts, The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960 (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2004)
