Dr Richard Millington

Dr Richard Millington

Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
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Qualifications

BA (Hons) PhD

Profile

I started as a Lecturer in German at VUW in 2006 after completing my PhD on German Expressionist poetry. Before that I had studied in Wellington, Moscow and Berlin and lived for extended periods in other parts of Europe as well, working as a language teacher and translator. My special interests include 20th century literature from the German-speaking world, comparative literary studies (especially the European Avant-garde) and translation studies.

Current research projects

• Cocaine in literary Expressionism
• Literary Galicia of the late Habsburg and interwar periods
• Poetry of Georg Trakl

Research Supervision

I welcome proposals relating to:

• German literature since the 18th century
• Comparative literature with a German and/or Russian component
• Translation studies

I currently have students working on:

• Translated children's literature in New Zealand;
• Contemporary German fiction in English translation;
• Intertextuality in Iris Hanika's Triffen sich zwei;
• Representations of Berlin in New Zealand writing.

Teaching interests

• German language;
• German literature and film;
• German-English translation (theory and practice);
• European studies.

Selection of publications

Monograph

Snow from Broken Eyes: Cocaine in the Lives and Works of Three Expressionist Poets, Bern: Peter Lang, 2012, 341pp. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=63183&concordeid=431069

Essays

“Deutsch, undeutsch, kleinrussisch: The Shifting National Loyalties of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.” Intercultural Encounters in German Studies. Eds Alison Lewis and Alan Corkhill. St Ingbert: Röhrig, 2013 (forthcoming)

“‘Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie’: Plotting Georg Trakl’s Poetic Sadness.” Edinburgh German Yearbook 6: Sadness in Modern German-Language Literature and Culture. Eds Mary Cosgrove and Anna Richards. Rochester: Camden House, 2012, pp. 95-111

“From the Evening-Land to the Wild East: Symbolic Geography in Three Poems by Georg Trakl.” German Life and Letters 64/4 (Oct. 2011). pp. 521-35. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0483.2011.01549.x/abstract

“Durch Dichtung zur Wahrheit: Gedächtniskrisen als Erzählimpuls in Max Frischs Zürcher Trilogie” Kritische Ausgabe 20 (2011), pp. 23–25

“Dissent in the nation of nobles: The Polishness of Joseph Roth’s ‘The Bust of the Emperor’” New Zealand Slavonic Journal 42 (2008), pp.121–136

Configurations of Memory Crisis in the Narrative Prose of Max Frisch.” Limbus 2008: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Erinnerungskrisen. Eds  Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann et al. Freiburg: Rombach, 2008, pp. 181–198

 "'Klänge, weich und trunken': Georg Trakl’s Poetics of Intoxication." AUMLA 107 (May 2007), pp. 77–102

 “Pameelen in the Snow: Towards a Reading of Gottfried Benn’s Episode with Cocaine.” Seminar 40.4 (Nov. 2004), pp. 349–367

Reference article

“Georg Trakl (1887-1914).” www.germanlit.org. Ed. Ernest Schonfield. 2012 http://sites.google.com/site/germanliterature/20th-century/trakl