Staff Profile:Dr Alison E Martin

Name:

Dr Alison Martin

Job Title:

Lecturer German Studies

Responsibilities:

Year Abroad Officer (German)

Teaching Comparative Literature Modules on European Romanticism, European Realism, European Modernism
Teaching 2^nd year modules on Syntax and Usage, the Sturm und Drang, E.T.A Hoffmann, GDR and Travel
Teaching 4^th year modules on Translation German to English, The Metropolis in Literature

Areas of Interest:

Literary and cultural exchange between Britain and Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, translation, travel writing, women and science, the popularisation of science

Areas of postgraduate supervision:
I welcome enquiries concerning research supervision in any of my areas of research interest.

Research groups / Centres:

Dr Martin has just completed a book-length project (Habilitationsschrift, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, 2012) on the translation and reception of the works of Alexander von Humboldt in nineteenth-century Britain. She is currently pursuing further the role played by women in the translation and international circulation of scientific texts and non-fictional travelogues in nineteenth-century Europe. As a member of the Centre for East German Studies at the University of Reading, she has just embarked on a project which explores how nineteenth-century British authors such as Thomas Hardy and William Thackeray were translated for and received by an East German audience.

Publications:

Books:

Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England, 1783-1830, Studies in Comparative Literature 13 (Oxford: Legenda, 2008)

with Susan Pickford, Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830: Nationalism, Ideology, Gender, Routledge Travel Writing Series (London/New York: Routledge, 2012)

Journals - Special Issues

with Sam George, Special Issue: 'Botanising Women: Transmission, Translation and European Exchange', Journal of Literature and Science, 4:1 (2011)

Chapters in books:

'Daughters of Science: Mathilde Ørsted, Leonora and Joanna Horner', in Hilary Brown (ed.), Readers, Writers, Salonnières: Female Networks in Europe, 1700-1900 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 239-57

'The Voice of Nature: British Women Translating Botany in the Early Nineteenth Century', in Luise von Flotow (ed.), Translating Women: Gender and Translation in the 21^st Century (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011), pp. 11-35

'Paeans to Progress: Arthur Young's travel accounts in German translation', in Stephanie Stockhorst (ed.), Cultural Transfer through Translation: The Circulation of Enlightened Thought in Europe by Means of Translation (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010), pp. 297-314

'Frauenzimmerbotanik: Unschuldiger Zeitvertreib und Mode?', in Christiane Holm and Holger Zaunstöck (eds.), Frauen und Gärten um 1800 - Weiblichkeit - Natur - Ästhetik (Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2009), pp. 36-47

'Raabe's "English Prophet": Sophie Delffs as Translator of Abu Telfan', in Dirk Göttsche and Florian Krobb (eds.), Raabe International (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), pp. 149-158

'Rerouting the Self: Georg Forster and the Art of Self-Translation', in Paschalis Nikolaou and Maria-Venetia Kyritsi (eds.), Translating Selves: Experiences between Languages and Literatures (London/New York: Continuum, 2008), pp. 155-168

''Je n'ai droit de me placer dans aucune classe de littérateurs': Octavie Belot (1719-1804) und die Selbstpositionierung der weiblichen Übersetzungspraxis', in Brunhilde Wehinger and Hilary Brown (eds.), Übersetzerinnen zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik, Aufklärung und Moderne (Hanover: Wehrhahn, 2008), pp. 53-64

'German Travel Writing and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Karl Philipp Moritz's Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782', in Jane Conroy (ed.), Cross-cultural Travel. Papers from the Royal Irish Academy International Symposium on Literature and Travel, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 2002 (New York/London/Berlin: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 81-88

Articles:

'Natural Effusions: Mrs J. Howorth's Translation of Haller's Die Alpen', Translation Studies, 5 (2012), pp. 17-32

'Revolutions in Botany: Nation, Gender and Education in the French Translation of Priscilla Wakefield's Introduction to Botany', Journal of Literature and Science, 4:1 (2011), pp. 30-43.

'These Changes and Accessions of Knowledge': Translation, Scientific Travel Writing and Modernity - Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative', Peter Hulme (ed.), Studies in Travel Writing. Special Issue: Alexander von Humboldt. 15:1 (2011), pp. 39-51.

'Reading Raabe, Writing Raabe: Deutscher Mondschein as Collaborative Translation Project', with Michael Ritterson et al., Germanistik in Ireland, 4 (2009), pp. 33-51

'Weibliche Pedanterey: Georg Forster über Hester Lynch Piozzi', Georg-Forster-Studien XIV (2009), pp. 1-16

'Die Rolle von Forsters Übersetzungen in den intellektuellen Netzwerken seiner Zeit: Thomas Forrests Voyage to New Guinea (1779)', Georg-Forster-Studien XII (2007), pp. 59-75

'Annotation and Authority: Georg Forster's footnotes to the Nachrichten von den Pelew-Inseln (1789)', Translation and Literature, 15:2 (2006), pp. 177-201

'Sympathy and Spectacle: Lebende Bilder, Attitüden and Visual Representation in Johanna Schopenhauer's Travel Writing', Publications of the English Goethe Society (2004), pp. 19-38

'The Traveller as Landschaftsmaler: Industrial Labour and Landscape Aesthetics in Johanna Schopenhauer's Reise durch England und Schottland', Modern Language Review, 99:4 (2004), pp. 991-1005

'Travel, Sensibility and Gender: The Rhetoric of Female Travel Writing in Sophie von La Roche's Tagebuch einer Reise durch Holland und England', German Life and Letters, 57:2 (2004), pp. 127-42

'Dutch and Flemish Cultural Identity: Presentation and Reception in the German-speaking Countries through the Medium of Translated Literature', Linguistica Antverpiensia XXXIV (2000), pp. 121-58

Reviews:

Yomb May, 'Georg Forsters literarische Weltreise: Dialektik der Kulturbegegnung in der Aufklärung', German Studies Review, 35.3 (2012), pp. 643-44

Donna Spalding Andréolle and Véronique Molinari, eds., 'Women and Science, 17th Century to Present: Pioneers, Activists and Protagonists', The British Journal for the History of Science, 45.2 (2012), pp. 309-10

Bettina Hey'l, 'Das Ganze der Natur und die Differenzierung des Wissens. Alexander von Humboldt als Schriftsteller', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34.3 (2011), pp. 415-16

Mark Napierala, 'Archive der Kritik: Die Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung und das Athenäum', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 34.3 (2011), pp. 400-1

Molly Mahood, 'The Poet as Botanist', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34.3 (2011), pp. 417-18

Erdmut Jost, 'Landschaftsblick und Landschaftsbild: Wahrnehmung und Ästhetik im Reisebericht 1780-1820', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34.1 (2011), pp. 102-3

Review Essay, 'Society, Creativity and Science: Mrs. Delany and the Art of Botany.' Eighteenth-Century Life, 35.2 (2011), pp. 102-7.

Ulrich Päßler, 'Ein "Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoko": Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preußen und Frankreich', German History, 18.3 (2010), pp. 370-71.

Sam George, 'Botany, Sexuality and Women's Writing, 1760-1830. From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 33.3 (2010), pp. 403-4

Suzanne Keen, 'Empathy and the Novel', Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 19.1 (2008), pp. 168-169

Gretchen Hachmeister, 'Italy in the German Literary Imagination: Goethe's Italian Journey and its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen and Heine', British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, 26.1 (2003), pp. 138-39

Qualifications:

MA, University College London; BA, Hons., PhD, Cambridge