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Dr Egbert Klautke
Associate Professor
SSEES
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2001
Research summary
I am an intellectual and cultural historian, focusing on German, Central European, French and transatlantic history. My first book, Unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten. 'Amerikanisierung' in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1900–1933 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2003) compared the infatuation with 'Americanization' and 'Americanism' in France and Germany, where all things American were perceived as peculiarly modern. My second book, The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851–1955 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013), follows the emergence, rise and repudiation of 'folk psychology'. It reconstructs the history of this branch of psychological thought and argues that its repercussions can be observed until the present day, despite the apparent failure of the approach in institutional terms. In addition, I have published articles and chapters on topics such as German antisemitism, race psychology, eugenics, the history of historiography, urban culture and the Viennese fin-de-siècle. I’m currently writing a book on the history of Vienna since 1815. I’m also studying the legacy of Freudian theories and concepts, i.e. the appropriation, diffusion and popularisation of Freudian thought in various disciplines and contexts.
Teaching summary
Education
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ01 - Successfully completed an institutional provision in teaching in the HE sector |
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1999
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg
- Other higher degree, Magister | 1995
Biography
I was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, Manchester and Freiburg, where I studied History, Political Science, Sociology and German Literature from 1988 to 1995. In 1995, I graduated from the University of Heidelberg with an M.A. in History and Political Science (double major). From 1995 to 1999, I held a scholarship at the doctoral school of the Centre for French Studies at the University of Freiburg. In 1999, I was awarded the Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in History and Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. From 1999 to 2001, I was postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. From 2001 to 2005, I was the DAAD Lecturer in Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. Since 2005 I have been the Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central Europe at SSEES, Senior Lecturer since 2014 and Associate Professor since 2018.
