Dr 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
- Personal Pronouns: she/her
Profile
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, forthcoming 2023). She is focusing on research impact and public engagement and leading 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.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10310 - Introduction to European Film
- GE10810 - Exploring German Cultural Identity
- GE30040 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- GE27110 - Short Prose in German
- GE37220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- GE27220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- GE31110 - Contemporary German Politics
Lecturer
- EL10310 - Introduction to European Film
- EL30510 - Extended Essay Module
- EL30120 - Dissertation
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10820 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- EL20510 - Extended Essay Module
- GE30040 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
Tutor
- GE10810 - Exploring German Cultural Identity
- EL10820 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- GE30130 - German Language
- GE30215 - German Language
Coordinator
- GE30040 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- GE10810 - Exploring German Cultural Identity
- GE27110 - Short Prose in German
- GE31110 - Contemporary German Politics
- GE27220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- GE37220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- EL10310 - Introduction to European Film
Moderator
Research
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.