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Dr Stephanie Bird
Dr Stephanie Bird is interested in the novel, narrative technique, literary and film theory and theories of gender. She has worked on the interaction of fact and fiction in the novel, on the relationship of female and national identity, and on the representation and ethics of shame. She is currently the Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project ‘The Reverberations of War’ and is working on a comparative study of the role of comedy in the representation of suffering in the work of post-war German-language writers and directors. This project explores the way in which the traumatic effects of conflict are aesthetically transformed into books and films that elicit pleasure. She is looking at the way in which melancholy and melodrama, both sensibilities that emphasise and privilege suffering, are put into question by the use of comedy, and how comedy can help expose melodrama and melancholy as gendered responses to suffering. Authors and directors she is currently working on include Ingeborg Bachmann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. G. Sebald and Reinhard Jirgl.
Stephanie Bird teaches German literature, film, and literary theory, and currently supervises PhD dissertations on various twentieth-century prose texts and films.
