Dr Ken Moulden
PhD, BA (Sydney)
Senior Lecturer
Room 516, Mungo MacCallum
Phone: +61 2 9351 6763
I have been involved with the University of Sydney since student days. I have taught here, with the exception of a year as an English lector at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany) for all of my career.
Research areas
- Literature of the Jahrhundertwende (particularly Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
- The works of Thomas Mann
- Expressionism
- Max Frisch
- Johannes Bobrowski
- Opera and Literature
- Phantastische Literatur (including Leo Perutz)
- Contemporary German Prose (particularly Süskind, Robert Schneider Nadolny and
Kehlmann) - Modern Austrian Drama (translator of "Clara S." by Elfriede Jelinek)
- German film (particularly Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Edgar Reitz)
Current projects
- A major study of Fassbinder’s so called “Bundesrepublik-Trilogie”
- A study of Reitz’ “Heimat” series of films.
Selected publications
Books
- German in Focus. A revision and extension course workbook for tertiary language studies (with U. H. G. Borgert, E. Wolters). Sydney University Press/ Oxford University Press, Sydney, 1988.
- “Buddenbrooks-Handbuch”, Kröner 1988.
Articles
- Johannes Bobrowskis Kloster bei Nowgorod: An essay in interpretation. In: Seminar, xvi, 1, 1980.
- Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. An analysis of the libretto. In: Wagner in Australia, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1988.
- Naturalistische Novellistik. In: Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. Band 7. Hanser, München 2000
- Articles on works by Horvath, Lernet-Holenia and Schickaneder in: Gero von Wilpert, Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Werke. Kröner, Stuttgart, 1993.
Areas of teaching and research supervision
Teaching
- Literature and culture courses from the Baroque period to the present day.
Supervision
- BA honours theses on a wide range of topics from my teaching areas.
- MA courses on Theodor Storm and Max Frisch.
- PhD candidates on East German literature, films of Margarethe von Trotta and exile writings of Theodor Wolff.