Michaela Schrage-Früh
Position
Assistant Professor of English Literature (on leave since September 2012)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz,
Germany
DAAD-Lecturer (since September 2012)
University of Limerick,
Ireland
Profile
Michaela Schrage-Früh studied English, German and American literature at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (1992-1999) and at University College Galway (1994-95). In 2003 she received her doctorate in English Literature for a thesis on contemporary Irish women's poetry (Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian. Trier: WVT, 2004). From 2001 to 2012 she was lecturer in the Department of English and Linguistics in Mainz and also taught classes at the Waterford Institute for Technology, the University of Koblenz-Landau and the University of Duisburg-Essen. Since 2012 she is on leave to teach German literature and culture at the University of Limerick, where she holds a position as DAAD-lecturer. She has published widely on contemporary Irish poetry and fiction and is co-editor of Medbh McGuckian: The Unfixed Horizon. New Selected Poems (Salem-Winston: Wake Forest UP, forthcoming 2015). She is currently completing a book project on intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination.
Contact details
University of Limerick
School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics
AM040
Castletroy, Limerick
Ireland
Tel.: 00353-61-202377
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Publication on the dream and related topics
Articles and chapters in books
(Un-)Writing the Self: Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Women's Religious Prophecy. Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg: Proceedings.
Trier: WVT, 2012, 111-127.
'The Roots of Art are in the Dream': Dreams, Literature and Evolution. Telling Stories: Evolution and Literature / The Evolution of Literature. Ed. Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 156-171.
'Transforming that Past': The Healing Power of Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry. Special Issue: Paula Meehan. Ed. Jody Allen-Randolph. An Sionnach 5.1 & 2 (Spring / Autumn 2009), 114-126.