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Dr Simon Ryan

German Programme

Office Arts 3S1
Tel +64 3 479 8691
Email simon.ryan@otago.ac.nz

Dr Simon Ryan teaches courses in German language, literature, European Studies, German cinema and digital culture. He studied German language and literature at the universities of Auckland, Tübingen, Graz and Cambridge. His recent publications include two books on the contemporary Austrian author and photographer Gerhard Roth, and articles on the spatiality and political economy of computer games; on neoliberalism and the fate of collectives in recent German cinema; assimilation in Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and on the international reception of 'The Metamorphosis'. He is currently investigating the aesthetic, intellectual, cultural and historical concepts and assumptions that constitute the organising principles of Roth's second narrative cycle Orkus.


Current/Recent Postgraduate Supervision

PhD

  • Peter Barton (Languages and Cultures – German: co-supervision) Vocal texts: voice as productive obstruction in the early prose of Thomas Bernhard (2015)
  • Jeannie Carey (Languages and Cultures – German and Art History: co-supervision) Animal Images - Franz Marc
  • Alexandra Dumitrescu (Languages and Cultures – French) Towards A Metamodern Literature (completed 2014)
  • Lin Zeng (Languages and Cultures – Chinese: co-supervision) Rewriting in Literary Translation (completed 2014)
  • Anita Perkins (Languages and Cultures - German) Travel Texts and Moving Cultures (completed 2013)
  • Margi MacMurdo-Reading (Languages and Cultures - German) Surveillance in Visual Culture (completed 2013)
  • Garth Cartwright (co-supervision with Media, Film and Communication) The Films of David Lynch (completed 2012)


MA

  • Tama Braithewaite-Westoby (Languages and Cultures - German) The Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen and the Discourse of Modernity (2015)
  • Natasha Stillman (Languages and Cultures, German) The Leipziger Notenspur as a UNESCO World Heritage Project (2015)
  • Kevin Fletcher (Languages and Cultures - German) Neoliberalism and Border Crossings in Recent German Cinema (2013) MSciComm thesis
  • Max Segal (Master of Science Communication) Werner Herzog's Science Films (2011)


Research Proposals Welcome in

  • c20th and c21st German and Austrian literature
  • German cinema
  • Digital and screen culture
  • Comparative literature

Publications

Ryan, S. (2019). Cosmopolitanism, gnosis and longue durée in Gerhard Roth’s Egyptian novel Der Strom (2002). In A. Lewis, K. Sutton & C. Weller (Eds.), Kosmopolitische Gedankenwelten / Cosmopolitan Imaginings. (pp. 209-221). Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann. Chapter in Book - Research

Ryan, S. (2018). Gerhard Roth’s Fotonotizen: The early years, 1972–1980. Seminar, 54(1), 40-65. doi: 10.3138/seminar.54.1.3 Journal - Research Article

Ryan, S. (2016). Locura, sentido y búsqueda del paraíso: Reflejos hispanos en el El laberinto (2005) de Gerhard Roth. In R. Guedea (Ed.), Países en tránsito: Estudios de literatura comparada. (pp. 103-121). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang. Chapter in Book - Research

Ryan, S. (2015). «Damals im Kino ...»: Re-reading Peter Handke's cinephilia. Cinéphilie: Augenblick: Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft, 64, 61-71. Journal - Research Article

Ryan, S. (2014). Writing a counter-history: Velázquez, Pessoa and the Habsburg world in Gerhard Roth's Das Labyrinth (2005). In A. Corkhill & A. Lewis (Eds.), Intercultural encounters in German studies. (pp. 139-156). St. Ingbert, Germany: Röhrig Universitätsverlag. Chapter in Book - Research

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