Dr Andrea Bandhauer

PhD (Dr phil Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Senior Lecturer, Chair of German Department
Room 520, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

+61 2 9351 3146

Dr Andrea Bandhauer is the Chair of the German Department and Lecturer for German and International and Comparative Literature.

• Comparative literature: literature and dance: dance at the beginning of the 20th century and the motif of dance in Expressionist literature (Else Lasker-Schüler)
• Identity and alterity: ‘Foreignness in contemporary German literature’ (e.g. Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Yoko Tawada)
• Migration: Germany to Australia (Carl and Frieda Strehlow)
• Contemporary Austrian literature (Elfriede Jelinek, Marlene Streeruwitz, Margret Kreidl)

1. (with Maria Veber) Discovery and Ownership: German missionaries and their narratives of contact with Australian Aboriginals.
   This project explores cultural narratives at play in missionaries’ interactions with Aboriginals, and aims to provide a more differentiated understanding of the impact of missionaries on the life and culture of Australian indigenous peoples. Under the rubric of gender and intercultural contact we examine textual materials produced by the German Lutheran missionary couple Carl and Frieda Strehlow. A key focus is the Lutheran mission to ‘understand’ the target indigenous society, its language and culture in order to maximise conversions to Lutheran Christianity.
2. (with Maria Veber) Book publication: Cultural Resonances: Migration between Germany and Australia (working title)
   National, Missionary and Literary Migrations from First Contact to the Present.
   The volume features individual contributions on national, missionary, and literary Migrations from Germany to Australia and vice versa. These contributions are contextualised by an extensive critical introduction against the background of theories of migration, cultural contact, interculturality and gender. The contributions are divided into three sections dealing with: firstly, an examination of the German presence in Australia from an historical perspective, as well as literary explorations of Australia in the German imaginary; secondly, the cultural impact of German missionary ethnography on Western thought; thirdly, the lives of German missionaries and their wives, and their missionary practice in the “contact zone”.
   Section Headings:
   Overview/critical introduction
   I National, Cultural and Literary Disseminations
   II Cultural disseminations of missionary ethnography
   III Living the Mission: Religious disseminations
   Summary/Future Research Directions
   To be published by Sydney University Press in Autumn 2008.

Book (ed)

• Andrea Bandhauer, Bettina Boss, Kerry Dunne, Tim Mehigan, Martina Möllering and Maria Veber (eds), New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity. Dunedin: University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures. German Section, 2005.

Book Chapters

• Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “Situating Gender Studies in Changing German Studies/Germanistik. Overview.” In: Andrea Bandhauer, Bettina Boss, Kerry Dunne, Tim Mehigan, Martina Möllering and Maria Veber, New Directions in German Studies. A Context of Interdisciplinarity. Dunedin: University of Otago. Department of Languages and Cultures. German Section, 2005, 43-50.
  Andrea Bandhauer: “Margret Kreidls In allen Einzelheiten. Katalog als autobiographisches Experiment.” (Margret Kreidl’s In Full Detail. A Catalogue as an Autobiographical Experiment). In: Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film. Eds. Lamb-Faffelberger, Margarete and Pamela S. Saur. New York: Peter Lang, 2004, 77-92.
• Andrea Bandhauer and Udo Borgert: “Introduction.” In: Women's Words, Women's Works. An Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Plays by Women. Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2001, 3-49.

Refereed articles

• Andrea Bandhauer: “Dramatische Auftritte: Selbst- und Körperinszenierungen in Margret Kreidls Ich bin eine Königin und Unter Wasser” Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, (November 2007): 469-481.
• Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “Frieda Strehlow: Eine Missionarsfrau in Australien.” Akten des internationalen Germanistenverbandes. (Paris 2007): 29-36.
• Andrea Bandhauer: “Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste: An Adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Player.” Literature and Aesthetics 2 (2006): 269-289.
• Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber: “German Studies Today: Gender and Intercultural Studies” for Modern Greek Studies, 13 (2005): 75-85.
• Andrea Bandhauer: “An Introduction to the Work of Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2004.” CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal. Purdue University Press, 7.1 (March 2005), pp. 11. (http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb05-1/contents05-1.html)
• Andrea Bandhauer: "Dichterin und Tänzerin: Tanz als poetologischer Entwurf in Else Lasker-Schülers Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad", Seminar 35:2 (May 1999): 107-21.
• Andrea Bandhauer "Virtuelle Landeskunde oder die Grenzen des globalen Dorfes", Fremdsprache Deutsch, 1 (1998): 51-53.
• Andrea Bandhauer Inge Stocker: "Australische Sprachpolitik und Deutsch in Australien", ÖDaF Mitteilungen, 2 (1997): 4-10.
• Andrea Bandhauer: "'Unermüdlicher tanzte nie der Tanz': Else Lasker-Schülers moderne Tanzbilder', Seminar, 32:2 (1996): 129-42.

Accepted for publication

(Book)

• Andrea Bandhauer and Maria Veber (eds): Intercultural Migrations Germany and Australia (tentative title). To be published by Sydney University Press, Spring 2008.

(Book chapter)

• Andrea Bandhauer: “Ambiguity and Morality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Bambiland.” In: Paolo Bartoloni and Tony Stephens (eds.) Ambiguity, pp. 17. (Planned for 2009).

(Article)

• Andrea Bandhauer: Eine Poetologie der Fremde: Emine Sevgi Özdamars transkulturelle Erinnerungen. In: Limbus-Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft/Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. Franz-Josef Deiters et al. (eds.) (pp15) To be published by Rombach Verlag, Spring 2008.

Teaching

• Coordinator of all junior units of study
• GRMN2632 - Early 20th Century German Culture
• GRMN4011 - Hons A: Film Adaptations of German Language Literature

Supervision areas

• Contemporary Literature in German
• Comparative literature:
  International and Comparative Literature Studies
• Literary theory
• Gender theory
• German as a Foreign Language
• Literature and dance: Body images in modern literature (esp. Else Lasker-Schuler)
• Austrian literature (Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Marlene Streeruwitz, Margret Kreidl, etc.)
• "Inszenierte Autobiographien": Fiction and autobiography (e.g. Margret Kreidl)
• Identity and alterity: Foreignness in contemporary German literature (e.g. Yoko Tawada, Emine Sevgi Özdamar)
• Language policies