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Professor Mary Cosgrove

Professor in German (German)
ARTS BUILDING

 cosgroma@tcd.ie

 3531896 2415


Biography

Mary Cosgrove (FTCD, MRIA) is a graduate of University College Dublin where she was Lecturer in German from 2002-2004. She was appointed Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh in 2005 and was promoted to Reader in German in 2012. In 2014 she was appointed Professor of German at the University of Warwick. In 2015 she was appointed Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (2014, Choice recommended title); (with Anna Richards, ed.), 'Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture,' Edinburgh German Yearbook VI (2012); (with Anne Fuchs and Georg Grote, eds.), German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in German Literature, Film and Discourse since 1990 (2006, paperback 2010; winner Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007); Grotesque Ambivalence: Melancholy and Mourning in the Prose Work of Albert Drach (2004). Research and teaching interests include representations of neoliberal culture in contemporary German-language literature and film, pathologies of the modern subject in fin-de-siècle culture, German-Jewish literature from the 19th century to the present, post-1945 and contemporary German literature, German memory debates since the 1960s, Holocaust historiography, psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and European melancholy traditions, and Medical Humanities. Current projects include'Framing Ageing', a collaboration between TCD Medical Humanities and UCD's Humanities Institute, and 'The Aesthetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary German Culture'. Professor Cosgrove is interested to discuss postgraduate supervisions on any of the above topics. Her various research projects have attracted funding from the IRCHSS (IRC), the AHRC, the British Academy, the DAAD, the ÖAD, the Wellcome Trust, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. In 2011 and 2012 she organised and hosted public engagement events on the topics of melancholy and sleep under the auspices of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, continuing this impact work at TCD through the collaborative project (with TCIN) 'Melancholia and the Brain' (TLRH, March 2019). From 2011-2013 she led the University of Edinburgh Modern Languages REF 2014 submission. In 2014 she was Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. From January 2016-2020 she was Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review, from 2011-2021 a member of the German Monitor's Editorial Board; since 2020 she is Co-Editor of new Camden House book series 'Culture and Power in German-Speaking Europe, 1918-1989'.

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Committee member and trustee: Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS) German Studies Association (North America) (GSA) German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI)
Mary Cosgrove, Anne Fuchs, Julia Langbein, Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research, First, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, 1 - 264pp, Book, IN_PRESS
The Meaning of Midlife in Terézia Mora's Darius-Kopp Trilogy in, editor(s)Julia Langbein, Mary Cosgrove, Anne Fuchs , Framing Ageing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research, London, Bloomsbury Publishing (Open Access), 2024, pp139 - 154, [Mary Cosgrove], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Kopp auf Tour: Mobilität als Immobilität in Terézia Moras Darius-Kopp-Trilogie in, editor(s)Peter C. Pohl, Michael Pilz , Ver-)Fahren. Dimensionen literarischer Mobilität (Festschrift für Thomas Wegmann), Berlin, De Gruyter (Open Access Gold), 2024, [Mary Cosgrove], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Oxford German Studies, Double Special Issue: 'Relationality in Contemporary German Literature and Culture', 53, I (Part 1), (2024), 1 - 132p, Mary Cosgrove, Anne Fuchs, Journal, PUBLISHED  URL  URL
Mary Cosgrove, The Grotesque Aesthetics of Relationality in Sibylle Berg's GRM Brainfuck (2019), Oxford German Studies, 53, (I (Part 1)), 2024, p78 - 92, p24 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Mary Cosgrove, Introduction: Manifesto for a Relational Turn, Oxford German Studies, 53, (I (Part 1)), 2024, p1 - 12, p12 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ode to the Secret Atomic Flow of the World: Mein Hiddensee (2015) in, editor(s)Karen Leeder, Lyn Marven , Ulrike Draesner: A Companion, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023, pp217 - 233, pp16 , [Mary Cosgrove], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
'Cultural Responses to the Crisis of Democracy in Germany: The Center for Political Beauty and "Sucht nach uns!"' in, editor(s)Laura Zuntini de Izzara, Thiago Moyano , Transatlantic Crises of Democracy: Cultural Approaches, São Paulo, Editora FFLCH, 2022, pp156 - 182, pp26 , [Mary Cosgrove], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
'"Never an Innocent Game": The Center for Political Beauty and "Search for us!"' in, editor(s)Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, Katya Krylova, Myrto Aspioti , Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today, Rochester NY, Camden House (Boydell & Brewer), 2021, pp58 - 74, [Mary Cosgrove], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Mary Cosgrove, The Slothful Protest: Acedia in Terézia Mora's Darius-Kopp Trilogy and Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche Das , German Life and Letters, 74, (1), 2021, p47 - 66, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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