The University of Leeds

Department Member, German

Academic Fellow

About

Helen Finch is a native of Dublin, where she took her undergraduate degree in German and Russian at Trinity College. Her master’s degree in Modern German Thought was attained at the University of Glasgow. She then returned to Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed a PhD comparing W. G. Sebald's novels with works by his contemporaries Botho Strauß and Peter Handke, in 2007. Currently, she is preparing a monograph on masculine identity in the work of W. G. Sebald based on this research.

Together with Professor Frank Finlay, she is embarking on a major research project on the work of the scholar and writer H. G. Adler.

Her other research interests also include gender in German culture, hybrid Irish identities and the work of Günter Grass, and she is preparing a further project on transgressive queer identities in German culture.

She has also taught as an assistant lecturer at the universities of Ulster and Liverpool, and rejoined the German Department at Leeds in 2009.

Her personal webpage is here: http://helenfinch.wordpress.com/

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