PhD students 1st cohort

Dr. des. Ruth Barratt-Peacock (born 1988) studied musicology, German as a foreign language and English literature at the University of Tasmania from 2006 to 2010. Between 2012 and 2015 she completed her Master’s of Literature, Art, and Culture, majoring in English literature and musicology studies at FSU Jena and the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. During her studies she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for British and American Studies, a translator and as a freelance tutor, as well as an assistant language teacher with the DAAD. She completed her PhD in 2018 and graduated with magna cum lauda in June 2019. She is currently employed as a postdoc at the research group and teaches a seminar on the American and Australian Gothics for the English department.

Concrete Horizons: Romantic Irony in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson

The subject of the project is an examination of Romanticism in urban contemporary Australian poetry using the poetic oeuvre of David Malouf and indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson. The poetry of these writers expresses the tensions and contradictions inherent to an urban society characterised by a Romantic world view while being haunted by the ghosts of its colonial past. Two questions stand at the centre of the work: How does the development of Romanticism in Australia fit into ‘Romanticism as a Model’ as analysed by the research training group? Can this model be considered a deep underlying structure of contemporary Australian poetry? A particular focus of the work is the ironically constructed image of the city.

Mithilfe eines raumtheoretischen Ansatzes wird untersucht, wie existierende räumliche Praktiken die Regeln für die Auseinandersetzung mit der klassischen Musikkultur zwischen Europa und Japan bilden. Dabei wird die Modellierung romantischer Konzepte bei der Darstellung bestehender räumlicher Konstrukte im Kontext der klassischen Musikkultur als interkulturelle Kontaktzone angesprochen.

Monografie

Concrete Horizons: Romantic Ironiy in the Poetry of David Malouf and Samuel Wagan Watson, Berlin: Peter Lang 2019.

Aufsätze

The Villon That Never Was, in: Ruth Barratt-Peacock/Ross Hagen (Hg.): Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet, forthcoming Bingley 2019.

The End of Words at the Word’s End: An Anthropocene Reading of David Malouf’s ‚The Crab Feast‘, in: Caroline Rosenthal/Gina Comos (Hg): Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene, Cambrige 2019.

(Zus. mit Ross Hagen): Finding the Past in the Present and the Present in the Past, in: Ruth Barratt-Peacock/Ross Hagen (Hg.): Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet, forthcoming Bingley 2019.

(Zus. mit Ross Hagen, and Brenda Walter): “Finding the Past in the Present and the Present in the Past” in Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet. Ruth Barratt-Peacock and Ross Hagen (eds.) Bingley: Emerald Books, 2019.

(zus. mit Sophia State): “Nostalgic Transmediation: A Not-So-Final Fantasy? Ichigo’s Online Sheet Music Platform as a Network of Creative Practice” in Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. Special issue Nostalgia and Popular Culture. Intellect 2020/2021

Kleinere Beiträge

Rezension zu: Alan Bewell. Natures in Translation Romanticism and Colonial Natural History, Baltimore, Maryland 2016.

Eine Australierin unter Deutschen, in: FAZ.NET, 20.08.2017

Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet, zusammen mit Ross Hagen, forthcoming Bingley 2019.

Tagungsbericht zu: „Romantik und Moderne“ Fachtagung der Internationalen Novalis-Gesellschaft 2019, Oberwiederstedt, 02.05.2019-05.05.2019.

Rezension “Robert McParland Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music.” In Metal Music Studies 5/2, 2019.

Rezension zu Bron Taylor, Dunkelgrüne Religion: Naturspiritualität und die Zukunft des Planeten, translated by Kocku von Stuckrad, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2020 in: Gestern Romantik Heute

Temporal Dislocation and the Construction of Alternative Cultural Identities in the Contemporary German Reenactment Scene [International Scientific Conference on Cultural Group Behaviour: Historical Re-Enactment, Contemporary Paganism, and Fantasy-Based Movements, 20.-21. Mai 2016, Vytautas Magnus University]

Subversive Medievalism in Subway to Sally’s Anti-War, Anti-Christian Repertoire [Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: (More) Extreme Music, 03. November 2016, University of Southern Denmark]

22/11/2017 “Romantic Poetics: A Book Symposium on a Book in Progress with Charles Taylor” (Jena, Germany), Paper: Panel member

David Malouf and the Anthropocene [Ringvorlesung Prof. Rosenthal: Narratives of Crisis. The Anthropocene in Anglophone Literature and Culture, 08. Juni 2017, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena]

David Malouf’s Poetry and Romantic Irony in the German Tradition [American Association of Australasian Literary Studies: Annual Conference, 07. April 2018, New York University]
Projektbeschreibung

21/11/2018 – 24/11/2018 Conference: “The Middle Ages in the Modern World” (Rome, Italy) Organisation of panel: Heavy Metal Medievalisms: A Matter of Identity? Paper: Local Signifiers and the Early Middle Ages in Global Communities: The Case of Wardruna

02/05/2019 – 05/05/2019 “Romantik und Moderne” [the annual meeting of the international Novalis society]” (Oberwiederstedt, Germany) Paper: Review for network “Gestern Romantik Heute: Forum für Wissenschaft und Kultur”

30/05/2020 – 01/06/2020 “Ecologies: Annual Mechademia conference” (Kyoto, Japan) [postponed until 2021 due to Corona] Paper: Forest of Piano: Navigating Japanese Musicianship on the World Stage

• Temporal Dislocation and the Construction of Alternative Cultural Identities in the Contemporary German Reenactment Scene [International Scientific Conference on Cultural Group Behaviour: Historical Re-Enactment, Contemporary Paganism, and Fantasy-Based Movements, 20.-21. Mai 2016, Vytautas Magnus University]
• Subversive Medievalism in Subway to Sally’s Anti-War, Anti-Christian Repertoire [Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound: (More) Extreme Music, 03. November 2016, University of Southern Denmark]
• 22/11/2017 “Romantic Poetics: A Book Symposium on a Book in Progress with Charles Taylor” (Jena, Germany), Paper: Panel member
• David Malouf and the Anthropocene [Ringvorlesung Prof. Rosenthal: Narratives of Crisis. The Anthropocene in Anglophone Literature and Culture, 08. Juni 2017, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena]
• David Malouf’s Poetry and Romantic Irony in the German Tradition [American Association of Australasian Literary Studies: Annual Conference, 07. April 2018, New York University]
• 21/11/2018 – 24/11/2018 Conference: “The Middle Ages in the Modern World” (Rome, Italy) Organisation of panel: Heavy Metal Medievalisms: A Matter of Identity? Paper: Local Signifiers and the Early Middle Ages in Global Communities: The Case of Wardruna
• 02/05/2019 – 05/05/2019 “Romantik und Moderne” [the annual meeting of the international Novalis society]” (Oberwiederstedt, Germany) Paper: Review for network “Gestern Romantik Heute: Forum für Wissenschaft und Kultur”
• 30/05/2020 – 01/06/2020 “Ecologies: Annual Mechademia conference” (Kyoto, Japan) [postponed until 2021 due to Corona] Paper: Forest of Piano: Navigating Japanese Musicianship on the World Stage