Frauke Matthes

Dr Frauke Matthes is a Senior Lecturer in German at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. She is the Subject Editor (for Comparative Literature) at the journal Forum for Modern Language Studies and on the editorial board for the book series European Connections: Studies in Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Aesthetics (Peter Lang). She was the general editor of the Edinburgh German Yearbook (2017-2022).

Her research centres on contemporary German-language literature. She is particularly interested in:

• gender and masculinity studies
• transcultural/national literature and culture
• world literature
• postcolonial studies
• travel/migration writing
• ethics and literature
• comparative literature

She has published widely on writers such as Ferdiun Zaimoglu, Navid Kermani, Clemens Meyer, Maxim Biller, Fatih Akin, Ilija Trojanow, Saša Stanisić, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leila Aboulela, and V. S. Naipaul.

Frauke’s ongoing and recent projects and outputs include:

• New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature: From “Native” to Transnational (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
• Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today, ed. Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, Katya Krylova, and Myrto Aspioti (Edinburgh German Yearbook 14) (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021)
• Writing and Muslim Identity: Representations of Islam in German and English Transcultural Literature, 1990-2006 (2011)
• A special issue of Oxford German Studies, edited with Lizzie Stewart, on Emine Sevgi Özdamar at 70 (2016)