Prof Andrea Hammel
Professor
Department of Modern Languages
Contact Details
- Email: anh17@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6764-923X
- Office:D18 Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622563
- Twitter: @DrAndreaHammel
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/89b744ba-3bec-47fc-89f3-7e9a196182f2)
- Personal Pronouns: she/her
Andrea Hammel is Professor of German in the Modern Languages Department and the Director of the Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Finding Refuge: Stories of the men, women and children who fled to Wales to escape the Nazis (Honno, 2022) and The Kindertransport: What really happened (Polity, 2024). Her focus is on research impact and public engagement. She has led a project on Refugees from National Socialism in Wales: Learning from the Past for the Future which is funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund and involves co-curators who are refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Kuwait. One of its outcomes is an exhibition which has been showing at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, the Senedd, the Houses of Parliament and in the Pontio Bangor. She has spoken at the Hay Literary Festival, The National Holoccaust Museum, Jewish Book Week and the Bundestag (the National Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany) about her work.
Professor Hammel is the Director of Research for the School of Languages and Literature.
- AB1 Exploring German Cultural Identity (GE10920)
- AB1 Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film (GE26020)
- AB2 German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK (GE27220)
- AB1 Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film (GE36120)
- AB2 German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK (GE37220)
Module Coordinator
Andrea Hammel's research interests include:
- the history and culture of refugees from National Socialism
- Autobiographies and memoirs
- The Kindertransport
- Issues of translation
- German-Jewish literature and culture
- Women's writing.
Dr Hammel is Committee Member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, IGRS, University of London; member of the Editorial Board of the Yearbook of the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies (Rodopi); series aedito of Exile Studies/Exilstudien (Peter Lang); she has received funding from the British Academy, the National Heritage Lottery Fund, Public Health Wales and the Association of Jewish Refugees and Aberystwyth University.
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
The Second and Third Generation: The Legacy of Forced Migration from Nazi Europe. ed. / Andrea Hammel; Stephanie Homer. Brill Academic Publishers, 2024. p. 53-69 (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies; Vol. 23).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Brill Academic Publishers, 2024. 228 p. (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies; Vol. 23).
Research output: Book/Report › Book
In: Austrian Studies, Vol. 30, 26.01.2023, p. 212-214.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review › peer-review
Polity, 2023. 169 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book