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Dr. Gilbert Carr

Fellow Emeritus (German)
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Dr. Gilbert Carr

Fellow Emeritus (German)
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 gcarr@tcd.ie

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Born in London, I became an Irish citizen in 2017. I studied German and Russian at Durham University, U.K. (B.A. 1966, Ph.D. in 1972), including one year of study at the University of Würzburg and one year of postgraduate research in Vienna. I was a lecturer in German at Trinity College, Dublin from 1969 to 1984 (awarded an M.A. juris officii in 1973). I am an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (University of Munich 1980, University of Göttingen 1992), and was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Essen in 1987. At Trinity, I was Senior Lecturer in German from 1984 to 2008, and was elected a Fellow in 1999. From 1996 to 1999 I was Director of European Studies, and from 2006 to 2008 I was Head of the Department of Germanic Studies. I retired in September 2008.
  First World War literature and propaganda   German and Austrian culture c. 1890-1930   Literary journalism   Manuscript edition   Satire   Theatre history
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Peer reviewer of academic monographs for Yale U. P. 1985, 1990, 2005.
Peer reviewer for the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria. 1999, 2008, 2010
Extern assessor for Lectureships at UCD and DIT. 1996-1999
Member of assessment panels for Government of Ireland Scholarships. 1998-2002
Guest lecturer at the Universities of Groningen and Nijmegen, Netherlands, as part of the Ireland/ Netherlands cultural exchange programme. 1990
Editorial board of 'Austrian Studies' Yearbook 2003-
Extern examiner at the Universities of Edinburgh, Sussex, Hamburg and at University College Cork. 2000-2006
Peer Reviewer for Austrian Studies Yearbook and for Germanistik in Ireland 2011-2015
Peer reviewer for Austrian Academy of Sciences 2019-2021
Peer reviewer for Musil-Forum, University of Salzburg, Austria, 2020
Peer reviewer for Berghahn Books 2018
Peer reviewer for Edinburgh German Yearbook 2019
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Fluent Medium Medium
German Fluent Fluent Fluent
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Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland 1972 present
Irish Mensa 1988 1991
Association of Third Level German Teachers in Ireland 2001 present
Alexander von Humboldt Association of Ireland 2008 present
Gilbert Carr, Ernst Toller: A Youth in Germany. Translated by Eoin and Eva Bourke. Edited and introduced by Christiane Schönfeld and Lisa Marie Anderson, with appendix materials compiled and translated by Christiane Schönfeld, Lisa Marie Anderson and Eva Bourke. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2024., Review of A Youth in Germany., by Ernst Toller. Translators: Eoin and Eva Bourke. Editors: Christiane Schönfeld and Lisa Marie Anderson. , Germanistik in Ireland., 18, 2024, p163-165. , Notes: [German Studies and the Medical/Health Humanities. Special Issue], Review, PUBLISHED
The German syllabus at Trinity College Dublin from 1873 to 1972 and beyond in, editor(s)Gisela Holfter , Rückblicke und Reflektionen " A History of German Studies in Ireland. , Trier, WVT, 2023, pp33-47 , [Gilbert Carr], Notes: [Series: Irish-German Studies, vol 16 ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Gilbert Carr, Robert Scheu's `Englische Reise' (1898), Austrian Studies:: Austrian Travel Writing, ed. by Florian Krobb and Caitriona Leahy, 31, 2023, p68-87 , Journal Article, IN_PRESS
Bildungsweg in, editor(s)Katharina Prager, Simon Ganahl. , Karl Kraus-Handbuch. Leben - Werk - Wirkung, , Berlin, Metzler, 2022, pp29-39 , [Gilbert Carr], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Gilbert Carr, Review of Musil-Forum. Studien zur Literatur der klassischen Moderne. Vol. 36 (2019/2020) [De Gruyter 2021], by Norbert Christian Wolf and Rosemarie Zeller (Eds.) , Austrian Studies 30: Anthropocene Austria. , 30, 2022, p208-210 , Review, PUBLISHED
Gilbert Carr, Review of Songs for a Revolution. The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany (Camden House 2020)., by Eckhard John and David Robb. , Germanistik in Ireland 17: Explorations in Literary History / Literatur-geschichtliche Erkundungen. Festschrift in Honour of Florian Krobb., 17, ( ), 2022, p239-241 , Review, PUBLISHED
Ice and Fire: From Christoph Ransmayr to Ernst Weiß. in, editor(s)Caitríona Leahy, Marcel Illetschko , Mapping Ransmayr. Kartierungsversuche zum Werk von Christoph Ransmayr, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021, pp135 - 149, [Gilbert Carr], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Gilbert Carr [with Judith Beniston, Deborah Holmes and Ulrike Tanzer], Obituary: W. E. (Gar) Yates 1938-2021, Austrian Studies, 29, 2021, p161-165 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Gilbert Carr , Review of Jens Malte Fischer: Karl Kraus. Der Widersprecher. Biografie (2020) and Ari Linden: Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity (2020), Austrian Studies, 29, 2021, p188-192 , Review Article, PUBLISHED
Gilbert Carr, Review of Berthold Viertel. Eine Biografie der Wiener Moderne. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag. 2018., by Katharina Prager , Austrian Studies , 28, 2020, p198-200 , Review, PUBLISHED
  

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Gilbert Carr, 'Female Figure', Beyond the Frustrated Self. Overcoming Avoidant Patterns and Opening to Life, London, Karnac Books, 2014, - Illustration on Book Cover , Visual art production, PUBLISHED
"Oskar Panizza's suppressed satire Die Unbefleckte Empfängnis der Päpste: The Festschrift of a blasphemer" in, editor(s)Gaby Behrens, Deirdre Byrnes, Hermann Rasche, Michael Shields , A Schriftfest for Róisín Ní Néill, Galway, Dept of German, NUI Galway, 2010, pp105 - 114, [Gilbert Carr], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
"Lion's heads - or just bricks and tiles? On satirical motifs and chance" in, Hermann Rasche, Christiane Schönfeld , Denkbilder. Festschrift für Eoin Bourke., Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2004, pp179 - 190, [Gilbert Carr], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
"Bertolt Brechts 'Sonett Nr. 19' und das Examen: (un)gelernter Chor mit verteilten Rollen" in, editor(s)Hugh Ridley & Karen McPherson , Feste Freundschrift. Short essays in honour of Peter Johnson, Dublin, [U.C.D.], 1997, pp92 - 100, [Gilbert Carr], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
"Leó Popper's review of György Lukács - The Soul and the Forms" in, editor(s)Eoin Bourke, Róisín Ní Néill & Michael Shields , Schein und Widerschein. Festschrift für T. J.Casey, Galway, Galway Univesity Press, 1997, pp260 - 269, [Gilbert Carr, Julia Tomkin], Notes: [ ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
"'Das Kriterium des Lyrischen' und die Lyriker der Vorkriegs-Fackel " in, Festschrift für Christian Wagenknecht zum 60. Geburtstag, Göttingen (Seminar für Deutsche Philologie), 1995, pp107 - 115, [Gilbert J. Carr], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
In prison in a Prussian pub: 'Siberia' in 'Prussia'? in, editor(s)Peter Skrine, Rosemary Wallbank-Turner, Jonathan West , Connections. Essays in honour of Eda Sagarra on the occasion of her 60th birthday, Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 281, 1993, pp37 - 46, [Gilbert Carr], Notes: [On Bruno Wille's 'Sibirien in Preussen' and 'Das Gefängnis zum Preußischen Adler'], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


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My main research interests are in German and Austrian culture c. 1890-1930, especially the Viennese fin de siècle, First World War literature and propaganda, satire, literary journalism, literature and thought, theatre history and reception studies, textual and discourse analysis, text philology (editing archival sources).