Nicole Falkenhayner

  • Radio programme: A History of Heroes

    I took part in the programme “World in Progress” on Deutsche Welle English Radio: a history of heroes


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  • Translating Society

    Su Andi: Translating the In-Between


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  • “Unlikely Hero” of the war-on-terror decade: chapter on Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005) in new volume on heroes

    Originally posted on Nicole Falkenhayner: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800 Barbara Korte & Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.) This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that have been marginalised or silenced…


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  • CFP “Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture”

    Collaborative Research Center on Heroes Call for Papers: International Conference “Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture” Freiburg, Germany,  September 28-30 2017 Organized by Michael Butter (Tübingen), Nicole Falkenhayner, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Barbara Korte (Freiburg) and Simon Wendt (Frankfurt a. M.)     In an age of globalization and transnationalism, heroes transcend their cultural spheres


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  • Surveillance and Social Memory: Remembering Princess Diana with CCTV

    Abstract Since the 1990s, surveillance camera images have experienced a function creep from their juridical uses into journalism and entertainment. In these contexts, the images have also become memory media. This article, for the first time, analyses CCTV images, meaning closed circuit surveillance camera images, as memory media and discusses the implications of our use


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  • check out Charlton Payne’s work on Refugee Literature

    My research investigates intersections of literature and politics in German literature from the eighteenth century into the present. My first book, The Epic Imaginary, traces how calls for poetic l… Source: Research


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