Dr Dora Osborne

Senior Lecturer in German

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3657
Email
do38@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 204
Location
Buchanan
Office hours
Monday 1-2, Tuesday 10-11

 

Teaching

I teach German langauge and culture at all levels. I offer research-led Honours modules on the following topics:

  • Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture 
  • Holocaust Memory and Its Discontents
  • Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond
  • Animals in Literature and Film

I am happy to supervise PhD projects on topics relating to post-1945 literature and film, as well as Animal Studies and the posthuman in German and Austrian contexts

Research areas

My research focuses on legacies of violence (in particular National Socialism and the Holocaust) in contemporary German and Austrian culture. I have published widely on contemporary literature, memorial projects, film and visual culture. I am the author of two monographs,  Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr (Legenda, 2013) and What Remains: the Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture (Camden House, 2020). My current research project uses insights from Animal Studies and theories of the posthuman to consider the role of taxidermy and fur in literature and film.

I am co-Director of the and co-General Editor of Austrian Studies.

Selected publications

  • Osborne, D. (Editor) & Krylova, K. (Editor), 8 Feb 2026, In: Austrian Studies. 33

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  • Osborne, D. & Krylova, K., 8 Feb 2026, In: Austrian Studies. 33, p. 1-19

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Duttlinger, C., Osborne, D. & Ruprecht, L., 1 Jul 2026, In: German Life and Letters. 79, 3, p. 281-297

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Osborne, D., 10 Feb 2026, In: Austrian Studies. 33, p. 81-102

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Osborne, D. E., 6 Oct 2025, In: Modern Language Review. 120, 4, p. 541-561

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Osborne, D. (Editor), Duttlinger, C. (Editor) & Ruprecht, L. (Editor), 1 Jul 2026, In: German Life and Letters. 79, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  • Open access
    Osborne, D. E., 26 Jan 2023, In: Austrian Studies. 30, p. 83-98 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Osborne, D. E., 1 Dec 2023, Erinnerung - Autofiktion - Archiv. Eigler, F. & Kniesche, T. W. (eds.). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, p. 33-54 22 p. (Gegenwartsliteratur; vol. 22).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Osborne, D. E., Sept 2022, In: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 58, 3, p. 308-327

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Matthes, F., Osborne, D. E. & Krylova, K., 1 Apr 2021, Politics and culture in Germany and Austria today. Matthes, F., Osborne, D., Krylova, K. & Aspiati, M. (eds.). Rochester, NY: Camden House, p. 1-14 14 p. (Edinburgh German yearbook; vol. 14).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review