Dr Elaine Martin

Education

Administrative Officer

School of Education

About

Elaine completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the School of Modern Languages at Maynooth University. Her PhD, funded by an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship and the John Hume Scholarship, was completed in 2008. Alongside her doctoral studies, she taught language and literature classes in the School of Modern Languages at Maynooth. In 2010, she was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue a project on colonial discourse in interwar Germany. She has published in the areas of Holocaust Literature, Colonial Literature and German Women’s Writing. Since completing her postdoctoral studies, she has worked in a variety of administrative roles, to include Research Programmes Officer with the Irish Research Council and Regional Recruitment Manager for China and South America at DIT. From 2015-2017, she managed MU’s North American portfolio in her role as International Officer. More recently, she managed the administrative function of the Arts and Humanities Institute at Maynooth.

 
Publications
                                                  
Books
 
Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918 (ed. with Florian Krobb) (Belfield: Aisthesis, 2014).
 
Nelly Sachs: The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011).
 
Peer Reviewed Journals
“‘Es kehrt niemand heil zu seinem Gott zurück —’ (Nelly Sachs): Biblical Archetypes as Representational Devices in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs”. In The German Quarterly 84: 3 (2011), pp. 292-308.
 
Book Chapters
 
 “The Violated Female Subject: Abjection and Spatial Ensnarement in Inka Parei’s Die Schattenboxerin”. In Carola Daffner and Beth Muellner (eds.) German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives (Berlin: De Gruyter: 2015), pp. 176-191.
 
“Introduction: Coloniality in Post-Imperial Culture”. In Elaine Martin and Florian Krobb (eds.) Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918 (Belfield: Aisthesis, 2013), pp. 9-44.
 
“‘Die Bestien im Lande’: The Convergence of Discourses in the ‘Black Shame’ Campaign”. In Elaine Martin and Florian Krobb (eds.) Weimar Colonialism: Discourses and Legacies of Post-Imperialism in Germany after 1918 (Belfield: Aisthesis, 2013), pp. 67-84.
 
“New Economy Zombies: Kathrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht”. In Valerie Heffernan and Gillian Pye (eds.) Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German Language Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013) [= German Monitor], pp. 131-148.
 
“‘Grüne Mutter Bukowina’: Czernowitz als literarischer Topos in der Lyrik Rose Ausländers”. In Florian Krobb and Franziska Schößler (eds.) Exklusion, Inklusion, Repräsentation: Galizien im Diskurs (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 295-312.
 
 
“The Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs”. In Gert Hofmann, Marko Pajevic and Rachel MagShamrain (eds.) German and European Poetics after the Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity (Rochester/New York: Camden House, 2011) [= Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture], pp. 19-34.
 
“‘Wahre, große Schicksale hat nur die Aristokratie!’ Satire as Social Criticism in Fanny Lewald’s Diogena”. In Christana Ujma (ed.) Fanny Lewald (1811-1889) Studien zu einer großen europäischen Schriftstellerin und Intellektuellen (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2011), pp. 169-185.
 
“Art after Auschwitz: Adorno re-visited”. In Alfred J. Drake (ed.) New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 193-209.
 
Book Reviews
Andreas Kraft: "nur eine Stimme, ein Seufzer:" Die Identität der Dichterin Nelly Sachs und der Holocaust (Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 2010). In Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 103: 4 (2011) pp. 685-687.
 
Sabine Egger: Dialog mit dem Fremden. Erinnerung an den “europäischen Osten” in der Lyrik Johannes Bobrowskis (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009). In Germanistik in Ireland: Yearbook of the Association of Third-Level Teachers of German in Ireland 5 (2010), pp. 189-191.