Dr Andrea Hammel

Reader
Department of Modern Languages
Contact Details
- Email: anh17@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6764-923X
- Office: D18, Hugh Owen Library
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622563
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- GE30000 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- EL10310 - Introduction to European Film
- GE30040 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- EL10500 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- GE10810 - Exploring German Cultural Identity
- GE31110 - Contemporary German Politics
- 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
- GE36120 - Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
- GE26020 - Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
Tutor
- GE27110 - Short Prose in German
- GE31110 - Contemporary German Politics
- EL10820 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- GE10810 - Exploring German Cultural Identity
- GE30215 - German Language
- GE30130 - German Language
- EL10800 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- GE37220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- GE27220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
Coordinator
- GE27110 - Short Prose in German
- GE10810 - Exploring German Cultural Identity
- GE27220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- GE30040 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- GE37220 - German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- GE30000 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- GE31110 - Contemporary German Politics
- GE36120 - Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
- GE26020 - Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
- EL10500 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10310 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
Lecturer
- GE30000 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- EL10800 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- EL20510 - Extended Essay Module
- GE30040 - Dissertation (Single Hons Modern German Studies)
- EL10500 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10820 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- EL10310 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- EL30120 - Dissertation
- EL30510 - Extended Essay Module
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
Moderator
Research
- Literature and history of German-speaking refugees
- 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); Co-director of the AHRC Network 'Holocaust Writing and Translation'; holder of a British Academy Small Grant to facilitate research on the Kindertransport.
Publications
Hammel, A 2022, No concession to 'English' taste? Refugees from National Socialism writing in Britain. in P Tew & G White (eds), The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. The Decades, Bloomsbury, pp. 249-274.
Hammel, A 2021, ‘I Remember Their Labels Round Their Necks’: Britain and the Kindertransport. in T Lawson & A Pearce (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust. Springer Nature, pp. 93-111.
Grosz, A, Homer, S & Hammel, A 2020, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the Child Refugees of the 1930s in the UK: History Informing the Future. Prifysgol Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth University.
Hammel, A 2019, ''I believe that my experience began in the womb and was later absorbed through my mother's milk': Second Generation Trauma Narratives', German Life and Letters, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 556-569. 10.1111/glal.12249
Hammel, A 2019, 'Narrating the Margins and the Center: Kindertransportees' stories of national and religious belonging', Shofar, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 203-228. 10.5703/shofar.37.3.0203
More publications on the Research Portal