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Dr Michaela Schrage-Frueh

M.A. DR.PHIL

Contact Details

Lecturer Below The Bar
German
AM337
Arts Millennium Building
Department of German
NUI Galway

T: +353 91 493602
E: michaela.schrage-frueh@nuigalway.ie
Lecturer Below The Bar
E: MICHAELA.SCHRAGE-FRUEH@nuigalway.ie
 
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Biography

Michaela Schrage-Frueh studied German, English and American literature at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (1992-1999) and at University College Galway (1994-95). From 2001 to 2012 she was Lecturer in the Department of English and Linguistics in Mainz, where she received her doctorate in 2003 and taught classes on English literature from the early modern period to the present. Before taking up a position as Lecturer in German at NUI Galway, she spent five years as DAAD-Lektor at the University of Limerick (September 2012-August 2017). In May 2015 she co-organised an international, interdisciplinary conference on "Women and Ageing: New Critical and Cultural Perspectives" (UL), including a public reading by Germaine Greer and funded under the IRC New Foundations scheme. Together with Cathy McGlynn and Margaret O'Neill she is currently preparing the edited collection Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in December 2017. She is a founding member of WARN (Women and Ageing Research Network) and a member of the Network of Cultural Dream Studies as well as the DFG-funded research group "Das nächtliche Selbst".

Research Interests

  • women and ageing
  • dreaming in cultural, literary and philosophical contexts
  • contemporary poetry and fiction in German and English
  • women's writing
  • language learning



Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2013) 'Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2013) 'Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction'. Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 6 (2):59-74 [Details]
(2009) 'Transforming that Past: The Healing Power of Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'Transforming that Past: The Healing Power of Dreams in Paula Meehan's Poetry'. An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture and the Arts, 5 (1):114-126 [Details]
(2009) 'My Heart Beats as Though It Were Hers: Medbh McGuckian's INtertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage'
Schrage-Frueh (2009) 'My Heart Beats as Though It Were Hers: Medbh McGuckian's INtertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage'. Nordic Irish Studies, 8 :43-56 [Details]
(2005) 'An Interview with Medbh McGuckian'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2005) 'An Interview with Medbh McGuckian'. Contemporary Literature, 46 (1):1-17 [Details]

Books

  Year Publication
(2016) Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2016) Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]
(2004) Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian. Trier: WVT. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2016) 'Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2016) 'Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs' In: Das nächtliche Selbst: Traumwissen und Traumkunst im Jahrhundert der Psychologie. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag. [Details]
(2015) 'Foreigners Within: Identitity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) 'Foreigners Within: Identitity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things' In: The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film. New York et al: Peter Lang. [Details]
(2015) 'Introduction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Farago, Borbala (2015) 'Introduction' In: The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian. Winston, Salem: Wake Forest Univesity Press. [Details]
(2014) 'Like a Foreigner / in My Native Land: Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First-Century Irish Poetry'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2014) 'Like a Foreigner / in My Native Land: Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First-Century Irish Poetry' In: Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]
(2013) 'Recent Ireland: Visions and Revisions of Irishness from the 1990s to Today: Introduction'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Heinz, Sarah; Kirchhofer, Anton; Rennhak, Katharina (2013) 'Recent Ireland: Visions and Revisions of Irishness from the 1990s to Today: Introduction' In: Anglistentag Potsdam 2012: Proceedings (Section: Recent Ireland). Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2012) 'Aren't We Citizens of the World? Irish Diaspora and Its Discontents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) 'Aren't We Citizens of the World? Irish Diaspora and Its Discontents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You' In: Ireland in / and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges. Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2012) 'The Roots of Art Are in the Dream: Dreams, Literature and Evolution'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) 'The Roots of Art Are in the Dream: Dreams, Literature and Evolution' In: Telling Stories: Literature and Evolution. Berlin: De Gruyter. [Details]
(2012) '(Un-)Writing the Self: Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-century Religious Prophecy'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2012) '(Un-)Writing the Self: Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-century Religious Prophecy' In: Anglistentag Freiburg 2011: Proceedings. Trier: WVT. [Details]
(2011) 'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk: Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2011) 'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk: Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan' In: The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details]
(2010) 'Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2010) 'Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian' In: The Interior of Words: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
(2009) 'Jackie Kay'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'Jackie Kay' In: Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century Black British Writers. Sumter, S.C: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman. [Details]
(2009) 'So Much Psychic Land to Reclaim: Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'So Much Psychic Land to Reclaim: Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry' In: Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture. New York et al: Peter Lang. [Details]
(2006) 'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate: The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry'
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2006) 'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate: The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry' In: The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]
(2004) 'Subversive Weiblichkeit? Die Frau als Muse, Geliebte und Künstlerin im Werk Friedrich Schlegels und Karoline von Günderrodes'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2004) 'Subversive Weiblichkeit? Die Frau als Muse, Geliebte und Künstlerin im Werk Friedrich Schlegels und Karoline von Günderrodes' In: Subversive Romantik. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
(2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret (Ed.). (2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
(2015) The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Farago, Borbala (Ed.). (2015) The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian. Winson, Salem: Wake Forest University Press. [Details]
(2013) Anglistentag Potsdam 2012: Proceedings (Section: Recent Ireland).
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela; Heinz, Sarah; Kirchhofer, Anton; Rennhak, Katharina (Ed.). (2013) Anglistentag Potsdam 2012: Proceedings (Section: Recent Ireland). Trier: WVT. [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(2009) 'The Multiplicity of What I Am: Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay'
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2009) 'The Multiplicity of What I Am: Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay' Folia Litteraria Anglica, 8 :67-78. [Details]

Book Review

  Year Publication
(2015) Review of Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity. University of Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2012, Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014, and Borbála Faragó, Medbh McGuckian. Cork: Cork UP, 2014.
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2015) Review of Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity. University of Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, 2012, Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014, and Borbála Faragó, Medbh McGuckian. Cork: Cork UP, 2014. Irish University Review 45.2: Book Review [Details]

Teaching Interests

Business German, German literature, women's writing, dream and literature

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country Description of Collaboration
Dr Margaret O'Neill University of Limerick IRELAND
Women and Ageing Research Network