Dr Haines is Head of Modern Languages and Director of GENCAS, the Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society.

 
Dr Haines has been Treasurer of Women in German Studies and Assistant Co-Ordinator of the 'Literature' strand at the CUTG. She was the local organiser when the CUTG met in Swansea in 1994. She set up the WIGS e-mail discussion group 'wigs-forum', and is the original author of the WIGS website. She is a founder member of GENCAS, the Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society. She is currently organising 'Aesthetics and Politics in Modern German Culture: Conference in Honour of Rhys W. Williams' (Gregynog Hall, Powys, 31 August - 2 September 2008).

 

Recent Research Projects 

'Maritime Bohemias: Representations of "Bohemia" in Libuše Moníková and other Contemporary German Writers', supported by AHRC Research Leave, Spring 2003
'Enduring Empires: History, Trauma and Identity in Recent German Writing from Central and Eastern Europe', supported by AHRC Research Leave, Spring 2007.
For a bibliography of recent writing in German by writers from central and eastern Europe, click here Haines_B_Recent Writing from the East  [MS Word 116Kb].

 

Publications 

 

Authored Books

(with Margaret Littler), Contemporary German Women's Writing: Changing the Subject (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), viii + 160 pp.
Reviewed: German Quarterly, 79 (2006), 124-6; Modern Austrian Literature, 39.2 (2006), 97-8; Modern Language Review, 101.3 (2006), 905-6.
Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter (London: MHRA, 1991) [Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Dissertations, vol. 34; Bithell Series of Dissertations, vol. 17]. ISBN 0947623442, xiii + 147 pp.

 
Edited Books

 

(with Lyn Marven), Libuše Moníková in memoriam (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005), iv + 320 pp.
Reviewed: Germanistik, 46 (2005), 1009-10; Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge, 14 (2005), 267-8; German Quarterly (2006), 411-12.
Herta Müller (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998)
(with Margaret Littler, Susan Richards, Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly and Juliet Wigmore), German Life and Letters. Special Number: Women's Studies (44/5, 1991).

 
Journal Articles

 
‘Poetics of the “Gruppenbild”: The Fictions of Vladimir Vertlib’, German Life and Letters, 62: 2 April 2009, 233-40'"Er ist das Maß": Franz Kafka in Libuše Moníková', German Life and Letters, 60/1 (January 2007), 116-32.

'The Eastern Turn in Contemporary German, Swiss and Austrian Literature', Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2008, 16:2, 135-149
'"The Unforgettable Forgotten": The Traces of Trauma in Herta Müller's Reisende auf einem Bein', German Life and Letters, 55/3 (July 2002), 266-81
'Beyond Patriarchy: Marxism, Feminism, and Elfriede Jelinek's Die Liebhaberinnen', Modern Language Review, 92/3 (July 1997), 643-55
'"New Places from which to Write Histories of Peoples": Power and the Personal in the Novels of Libuše Moníková', German Life and Letters, 49/4 (October 1996), 501-12
'Masochism and Femininity in Lou Andreas-Salomé's Eine Ausschweifung', Women in German Yearbook, 10 (1995), 97-115
'Dialog und Erzählstruktur in Adalbert Stifters Nachsommer', in Adalbert Stifters schrecklich schöne Welt, VASILO, 1994[1]/Germanistische Mitteilungen, 40 (1994), 169-77
'"Ja, so würde ich es auch heute noch sagen": Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé in the 1990s', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 62 (1993), 77-95
'Lou Andreas-Salomé's Fenitschka: A Feminist Reading', German Life and Letters, 44/5 (October 1991), 416-25
'"Aber jetzt wird ausgeplaudert": Helga Königsdorf and the sanfte Revolution', Politics and Society in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 3/3 (1991), 55-60
Articles/Chapters in Books

'German-language writing from eastern and central Europe', in Stuart Taberner (ed.), Contemporary German Fiction: Writing in the Berlin Republic (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), 215-29.
'Representations of "Bohemia" in the Works of Libuše Moníková (1945-1998)', in Time Refigured: Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined Communities, ed. Martin Procházka and Ondrej Pilny (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005), pp. 268-80
'"Bohmen liegt am Meer". Ein literarisch-politisches Motiv bei William Shakespeare, Franz Fühmann, Ingeborg Bachmann und Libuše Moníková', in Patricia Broser and Dana Pfeiferová (eds), Hinter der Fassade. Libuše Moníková (Vienna: Praesens, 2005), 179-90
‘“Böhmen liegt am Meer”, or, When Writers Redraw Maps’, in Juliet Wigmore and Ian Foster (eds), Neighbours and Strangers: Literary and Cultural Relations in Germany, Austria and Central Europe since 1989 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), 7-25
‘“Barren Territory for Grand Narratives”?: Czech History in the Works of Libuše Moníková’, in Haines and Marven (eds), Libuše Moníková in memoriam, 179-201
‘Libuše Moníková: Life, Works and Reception’, in Haines and Marven (eds), Libuše Moníková in memoriam, 9-22
'Subjectivity (Un)Bound: Libuše Moníková and Herta Müller', in Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles and Walter Pape (eds), Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), pp. 327-44
'Herta Müller: Outline Biography', in Herta Müller, ed. Brigid Haines (1998), pp. 11-13
(with Margaret Littler), 'Gespräch mit Herta Müller', in Herta Müller, ed. Brigid Haines (1998), pp. 14-24
'"Leben wir im Detail": Herta Müller's Micro-Politics of Resistance', in Herta Müller, ed. Brigid Haines (1998), pp. 109-25
'The Sounds of Silence: Ilse Aichinger's Die größere Hoffnung, Der Gefesselte, and Kleist, Moos, Fasane', in Allyson Fiddler (ed.), Other Austrians: Post-1945 Austrian Women's Writing (Berne: Peter Lang, 1998), pp. 105-14
'The Reader, the Writer, her Narrator and their Text(s): Intertextuality in Christa Wolf's Störfall', in Ian Wallace (ed.), Christa Wolf in Perspective (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994), 157-72
'"Botschaft aus einem seltsamen Land": Helga Königsdorf and her Critics', in Axel Goodbody and Dennis Tate (eds), Geist und Macht: Writers and the State in the GDR (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992), 140-50
'Women's Studies in West and East Germany', in A. Gaur and P. Tuson (eds), Women's Studies: Papers presented at a Colloquium at The British Library (London: British Library, 1990), 61-6
Encyclopaedia Entries

'Ilse Aichinger', 'Ingeborg Bachmann', 'Elfriede Jelinek' and 'Libuše Moníková', in John Sandford (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 9, 33f., 321f. and 420
Book Reviews
Review of Renate Cornejo, Das Dilemma des weiblichen Ich: Untersuchungen zur Prosa der 1980er Jahre von Elfriede Jelinek, Anna Mitgutsch und Elisabeth Reichart, Modern Austrian Literature, 40 (2007).
Review of Alfrun Kliems, Im 'Stummland': Zum Exilwerk von Libuše Moníková, Jirí Gruša und Ota Filip, Central Europe, 2/1 (May 2004), 71-2.
Review of Chris Weedon (ed.), Post-War Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches, Modern Language Review, 95/2 (2000), 577-8.

Room: Keir Hardie 435.