The Future of Education
Christine Berberich
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Address: 91, Frensham Road
Postal Code: PO48AE
Country: United Kingdom
Christine Berberich is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English and European Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK, as well as Global Engagement Lead for the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies within the University.
Christine holds an MA in English Literature, Spanish/Latinamerican Studies and Modern History from Saarland University, Germany, as well as a PhD in English Literature from the University of York, UK. She has held previous teaching posts at the University of Derby, UK but has, since 2009, been at the University of Portsmouth where she has been specialising in literary and cultural representations of National Identity, especially Englishness; Popular Fiction; and, in particular, Holocaust Literatures. She is an acknowledged expert in these fields, with many articles and chapters on authors as diverse as Ian Fleming, Kazuo Ishiguro, W.G. Sebald, Evelyn Waugh, Rachel Seiffert, Julian Barnes and Patrick Modiano. She is the author of The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia (Ashgate, 2007), and the editor of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014), as well as the co-editor of Land & Identity: Theory, Memory, Practice (Rodopi, 2011), These Englands: Conversations on National Identity (Manchester University Press, 2012) and Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life (Ashgate, 2015). She has just edited a Special Issue of the journal Holocaust Studies (in press) which features her introduction and conclusion as well as a long article on approaches to historical fiction in the work on Laurent Binet. She has started planning a new monograph project on Nazi perpetration, tentatively entitled Nazi Noir. She is also developing a new research interest in the new genre of ‘Brexit Literature’. Christine regularly speaks at national and international conferences and has delivered keynote lectures at universities and institutions in the UK, Germany, Norway and, most recently, India. She supervises a number of MA / MRes and PhD students and always welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in her field.
In addition to her academic work, Christine has recently taken on the role of Global Engagement Lead for her department. She is working actively towards the Internationalisation of the Higher Education sector, something she strongly and passionately believes in, particularly in the wake of the UK’s Brexit referendum which has left her feeling angry, disoriented and uprooted.
Areas of expertise: English Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century; National Identity Construction; ‘Englishness’; Holocaust Education; Holocaust Literature, in particular perpetrator writing; International and transnational cooperation, and internationalization of the HE Sector.
Christine holds an MA in English Literature, Spanish/Latinamerican Studies and Modern History from Saarland University, Germany, as well as a PhD in English Literature from the University of York, UK. She has held previous teaching posts at the University of Derby, UK but has, since 2009, been at the University of Portsmouth where she has been specialising in literary and cultural representations of National Identity, especially Englishness; Popular Fiction; and, in particular, Holocaust Literatures. She is an acknowledged expert in these fields, with many articles and chapters on authors as diverse as Ian Fleming, Kazuo Ishiguro, W.G. Sebald, Evelyn Waugh, Rachel Seiffert, Julian Barnes and Patrick Modiano. She is the author of The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia (Ashgate, 2007), and the editor of The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014), as well as the co-editor of Land & Identity: Theory, Memory, Practice (Rodopi, 2011), These Englands: Conversations on National Identity (Manchester University Press, 2012) and Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life (Ashgate, 2015). She has just edited a Special Issue of the journal Holocaust Studies (in press) which features her introduction and conclusion as well as a long article on approaches to historical fiction in the work on Laurent Binet. She has started planning a new monograph project on Nazi perpetration, tentatively entitled Nazi Noir. She is also developing a new research interest in the new genre of ‘Brexit Literature’. Christine regularly speaks at national and international conferences and has delivered keynote lectures at universities and institutions in the UK, Germany, Norway and, most recently, India. She supervises a number of MA / MRes and PhD students and always welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in her field.
In addition to her academic work, Christine has recently taken on the role of Global Engagement Lead for her department. She is working actively towards the Internationalisation of the Higher Education sector, something she strongly and passionately believes in, particularly in the wake of the UK’s Brexit referendum which has left her feeling angry, disoriented and uprooted.
Areas of expertise: English Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century; National Identity Construction; ‘Englishness’; Holocaust Education; Holocaust Literature, in particular perpetrator writing; International and transnational cooperation, and internationalization of the HE Sector.
