Dr Christiane Weller - Researcher Profile

Biography

Before migrating to Australia Christiane Weller read German Literature, Art History and Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, completing her studies with a Master Degree (Magister Artium). In 1999 she received her Ph.D. from Monash University and joined the Monash German Department.
Her research interests include German travel writing and expeditions reports, colonial writing, contemporary German fiction and psychoanalytic theory. She has published on Georg Forster, Christoph Ransmayr, W.G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Wolfgang Hilbig and others, as well as on topics like trauma, melancholia and psychosis. She is a co-editor of Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, and a co-editor of the online journal écritique – Letters of the Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
Christiane Weller is a member of several academic societies including the German Studies Association of Australia (GSAA), the German Studies Association of North America (GSA), and the Georg-Forster Society. She is also a member of the Freudian School of Melbourne. School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and a member of the Psychoanalytic Studies Association of Australia.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 2005

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1999

Publications

Books

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., Lewis, A.M., Weller, C.H. (eds), 2012, The Actuality of Romanticism, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg, Germany.

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Weller, C. (eds), 2011, Groteske Moderne - Moderne Groteske. Festschrift fuer Philip Thomson / Festschrift for Philip Thomson, Rohrig Universitatsverlag, St Ingbert, Germany.

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., Lewis, A.M., Weller, C.H. (eds), 2011, Terror and Form, Rombach Verlag, Berlin.

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., Lewis, A., Weller, C. (eds), 2011, Terror and Form: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, Rombach, Berlin, Germany.

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., Lewis, A., Weller, C. (eds), 2010, Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch fuer germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft/Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i.Br.,, Berlin, Vienna, Germany, Austria.

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Weller, C. (eds), 2010, Passagen. 50 Jahre Germanistik an der Monash Universitaet / Passages. 50 Years of German Studies at Monash University, Roehrig Universitaetsverlag, St. Ingbert, Germany.

Deiters, F., Fliethmann, A., Lang, B., Lewis, A., Weller, C.H. (eds), 2009, Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch fuer germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaf/. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i.Br., Berlin, Vienna, Germany, Austria.

Weller, C.H., Deiters, F., Lang, B., Lewis, A., Fliethmann, A. (eds), 2008, Erinnerungskrisen/Memory Crises, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i.B..

Magerski, C., Savage, R.I., Weller, C.H. (eds), 2007, Moderne Begreifen. Zur Parodoxie eines Sozio-asthetischen Deutungsmusters, Deutscher Universitats-Verlag, Wiesbaden Germany.

Fliethmann, A., Weller, C.H. (eds), 2006, Tendenzen der internationalen Germanistik, Asgard, St Augustin Germany.

Heinze, H.H., Weller, C.H. (eds), 2004, Die Lektu¨re der Welt : zur Theorie, Geschichte und Soziologie kultureller Praxis; Festschrift fu¨r Walter Veit, Peter Lang, Frankfurt.

Book Chapters

Weller, C.H., 2012, On 'Nachtraglichkeit', in Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne Volume 24, eds Linda Clifton, Karnac Books, London UK, pp. 21-29.

Weller, C., 2011, Liebe und Arbeit. Zu Ueberfluss und Mangel im pazifischen Beziehungsgeflecht, in Maskeraden des (Post-)Kolonialismus. Verschattete Repraesentation 'der Anderen' in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und im Film, eds Ortrud Gutjahr & Stefan Hermes, Konigshausen & Neumann, Wuerzburg, Germany, pp. 197-215.

Weller, C., 2011, Sprache der Mutter - Muttersprache. Peter Handkes Wunschloses Ungluck und Karl-Heinz Otts Ins Offene im Dialog, in Groteske Moderne - Moderne Groteske. Festschrift fuer Philip Thomson / Festschrift for Philip Thomson, eds Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Christiane Weller, Roehrig Universitaetsverlag, St. Ingbert Germany, pp. 377-388.

Weller, C., 2011, Travelling companions: Cook's second voyage in the writing of Georg and Johann Reinhold Forster, in Collective Creativity: Collaborative Work in the Sciences, Literature and the Arts, eds Gerhard Fischer and Florian Vassen, Rodopi, New York, US, pp. 243-251.

Weller, C.H., 2010, Adolf Woelfli (1864-1930), in Praktizierte Intermedialitaet. Deutsch-franzoesische Portraets von Schiller bis Goscinny/Uderzo, eds Fernand Hoerner, Harald Neumeyer and Bernd Stiegler, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Germany, pp. 53-67.

Weller, C.H., 2009, Die Melancholie des Ortes. Stadt, Gewalt und Erinnerung, in W.G. Sebald. Schreiben ex patria / Expatriate Writing, eds Gerhard Fischer, Rodopi, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 493-507.

Weller, C.H., 2009, The transformations of exile and migration - from Ovid to Malouf and Ransmayr, in Belonging and Exclusion: Case Studies in Recent Australian and German Literature, Film and Theatre, eds Ulrike Garde and Anne-Rose Meyer, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne UK, pp. 147-159.

Weller, C.H., 2008, Nachgetragene Erinnerung - die Figur der Nachtraeglichkeit in Christoph Ransmayrs Der fliegende Berg [Nachgetragene memory.-The figure of deferred action in Christoph Ransmayr "Der fliegende Berg"], in Limbus. Australisches Jahrbuch fuer germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies. Erinnerungskrisen/Memory Crises, eds Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Birgit Lang, Alison Lewis and Christiane Weller, Rombach Buchverlag, Freiburg i.Br. Germany, pp. 213-224.

Weller, C.H., 2007, Trauma und melancholie, in Moderne Begreifen. Zur Parodoxie eines Sozio-asthetischen Deutungsmusters, eds Christine Magerski, Robert Savage and Christiane Weller, Deutschen Universitatsverlag, Wiesbaden Germany, pp. 157-168.

Weller, C.H., 2006, Wie wirtschaftlich sind die Geisteswissenschaften?Zum rechtfertigungdruck der australischen Germanistik, in Tendenzen der Internationalen Germanistik, eds Axel Fliethmann and Christine Weller, Asgard-Verlag, St Augustin Germany, pp. 179-193.

Weller, C.H., 2005, Between violence and transcendence: Handke's poetry, in The Works of Peter Handke: International Perspectives, eds David N Coury and Frank Pilipp, Ariadne Press, Riverside California USA, pp. 236-263.

Weller, C.H., 2004, Reisen ins eigene Land. Ost-westdeutsche Erfahrungen bei Huizing, Nadolny und Hilbig (Journeys into their own country. East-West German experience Huizing, Nadolny and Hilbig), in Die Lekture der Welt/Worlds of Reading: Zur Theorie, Geschichte und Soziolologie kultureller Praxis/On the Theory, History & Sociology of Cultural Practice. Festschrift fur Walter Veit/Festschrift for, eds Helmut Heinze and Christiane Weller, Peter Lang, Frankfurt Germany, pp. 475-483.

Weller, C.H., 2001, Peter Schneiders Berlin Trilogie, in Writing after the Turn: A Decade of German Literature 1989-1999, eds Gerhard Fischer / David Roberts, Stauffenburg Verlag, Tubingen, pp. 291-299.

Journal Articles

Weller, C.H., 2010, Autorisierungen - Von Johann Reinhold Forster zu Georg Forster, Forster Studien [P], vol 15, Kassel University Press, Kassel, Germany, pp. 123-135.

Weller, C.H., 2009, The transference to work - the concept of 'work' in psychoanalysis, LIMBUS: Australian Yearbook German Literary and Cultural Studies [P], vol 2, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. Germany, pp. 119-131.

Weller, C.H., 2007, "The practice of brain": To the logic of psychotic speaking using the example of Thomas Bernhard [Die praktizierung des gehirns: Zur Logik des psychotischen sprechens am Beispiel Thomas Bernhards], Seminar - A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol 43, issue 4, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Canada, pp. 499-507.

Weller, C.H., 2006, Das Eismeer: Verortungsversuche, Georg Foster Studien, vol XI, issue 1, Kassel University Press, Kassel Germany, pp. 111-130.

Weller, C.H., 2004, M_ARS: Krieg und Kunst, Peter Weibel und Gunther Holler-Schuster (eds.) (Review), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. ?Art and Terror?,, vol 5, issue 2, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australia.

Weller, C.H., 2004, Tim Mehigan, Robert Musil; Tim Mehigan, ed. Heinrich Kleist und die Aufklarung; Tim Mehigan and Gerhard Sauder, ed. Roman und Asthetik im 19. Jahrhundert. Festschrift fur Christiane Grawe zum 65. Geburtstag (Review), AUMLA, vol 102, issue November 2004, Australian Universities Language and Literature Association, Australia.

Other

Weller, C.H., 2009, Zensur, Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik, vol other, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tubingen Germany, pp. 1486-1500.

Weller, C.H., 2008, Dorn/Dornbusch/Dornausziehen, Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole, vol minorencyc, J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar, pp. 67-68.

Weller, C.H., 2008, Spinne, Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole, vol minorencyc, J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar, pp. 361-363.

Weller, C.H., 2008, Von Freud und Lacan aus: Literatur, Medien, Uebersetzen. Zur 'Ruecksicht auf Darstellbarkeit' in der Psychoanalyse, Erinnerungskrise/Memory Crises, vol 1, Rombach Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. Berlin Vienna.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit" - Deutsche Erinnerungskultur, Kulturelles Gedachtnis und die Politik der Amnestie. The Post-Wende German novel and the normalisation of the Berlin Republic..

Supervisors:

Fliethmann, A (Joint), Weller, C (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"Lernkrimis" as part of the German language curriculum.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Adultery and hysteria among Gabriele D'Annunzio's female characters..

Supervisors:

Pagliaro, A (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Australian idealistic architecture of the early twentieth century that received inspiration from European movements and examples.

Supervisors:

Weller, C (Main), Deiters, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Children's literature in Nazi Germany: 'emotional engineering' as an ideological tool.

Supervisors:

Weller, C (Main), Gerber ((Double Id)), L (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Recovering Jelinek for the English-speaking stage: problems of inter-cultural transfer in Elfriede Jelinek's plays and theatrical strategies to fill the 'gap of translation'.

Supervisors:

Snow, P (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Kosovo mythology in the discourse of Serbian nationalism: a psychoanalytic perspective.

Supervisors:

Weller, C (Main), Vladiv-Glover, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Trauma and Its Legacies: Division and Reconciliation between Taiwanese and Mainlanders.

Supervisors:

Davies, G (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bell, R.

Program of Study:

TOWARDS A PSYCHOANALYTIC AESTHETICS OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Rigby, C (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Student:

Brkic, L.

Program of Study:

Germany's Contemporary World War Two Project: The "Framing" of National Socialism by Contemporary German Writers. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Weller, C (Main), Deiters, F (Associate).

Student:

Chia, N.

Program of Study:

FATA MORGANA - 'VATER MORGANA': THE 'ABSENT FATHER' AND PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY FORMATION IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE 'FATHER-BOOKS' AFTER THE THIRD REICH. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Roberts, D (Main), Weller, C (Joint).

Student:

Gerber, L.

Program of Study:

Tracing a tradition: the translation of Australian children's fiction into German from 1945 to the present. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Weller, C (Main), Wilson, R (Associate).

Student:

Jansen, U.

Program of Study:

Eyes unaccustomed: the creative mind in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina and other prose works. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Weller, C (Associate).

Student:

Magerski, C.

Program of Study:

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LITERARY FIELD IN GERMANY AFTER 1871: BERLIN MODERNISM AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Roberts, D (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Student:

Molloy, D.

Program of Study:

Cultural memory and literature: re-imagining Australia's past. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Dilnot, A (Main), Weller, C (Associate).