Dr Heather Benbow
Lecturer
Arts Centre Building
room 627 - Tel 03 - 8344 5102
benbow@unimelb.edu.au
Heather completed her undergraduate studies and her PhD at the University of Melbourne. She attended the Internationale Frauenuniversität in Hanover in 2000. Before commencing full-time in the department, Heather tutored German language and literature, and served as the editor on journals such as antiTHESIS, Traffic and the School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature
Research interests and areas of supervision
German literature and culture of the eighteenth century; gender studies; notions of race, gender and nation in German literature and culture; contemporary German film.
Publications
Books
Benbow, H. (forthcoming) Gender and Orality in German Culture around 1800. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
Warren, J. and Benbow H. (eds) (forthcoming) Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Refereed journal articles
Benbow, H. (2007) ‘Ethnic Drag in the Films of Doris Dörrie’. German Studies Review vol.30, no.3, pp.517–536.
Benbow, H. (2006) ‘“Was auf den Tisch kam, mußte aufgegessen […] werden”: Food, Gender and Power in Kafka’s Letters and Stories’. German Quarterly vol.79, no.3, pp.347–365.
Benbow, H. (2006) ‘“Weil ich der raschen Lippe Herr nicht bin”: Oral Transgression as Enlightenment Critique in Kleist’s Penthesilea’. Women in German Yearbook vol.22, pp.145–166.
Benbow, H. (2005) ‘“False Tolerance” or False Feminism? Hijab Controversies in Australia and Germany’. Overland no.181, pp.10–15.
Benbow, H. (2005–06) ‘“The Woman Should Reign and the Man Govern”: Gendering Kant’s Body Politic’. Melbourne Journal of Politics vol.30, pp.80–97.
Benbow, H. (2003) ‘Ways In, Ways Out: Theorizing the Kantian Body’. Body & Society vol.9, no.1, pp.57–72.
Benbow, H. (2003) ‘“This lady was as educated as she was thin”: Hunger and Gender in Wilhelm Raabe’s Novel Der Hungerpastor’. (Sub)texts: New Perspectives on Language and Culture School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature vol.3, pp.109–125. (refereed conference proceedings)
Book chapters
Benbow, H. (forthcoming) ‘“The only thing Turkish about me is my name and my face”: Doris Dörrie’s film Happy Birthday Türke’ in Warren, J. and Benbow H. (eds) Multilingual Europe: Reflections on Language and Identity. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Benbow, H. (forthcoming) ‘“It’s about becoming homeless”: Doris Dörrie’s Enlightenment Guaranteed as Mock-Ethnography’ in Cynthia J. Miller (ed.) Too Bold for the Box Office: A Study in Mockumentaries. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Benbow, H. (2005) ‘Figuring National Character in Kant’s Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen’ in Figuration / Defiguration. Kultur und Kulturwissenschaft als Prozess. Ed. by Atsuko Onuki and Thomas Pekar. Munich: iudicium, pp.201–213.
Benbow, H. (2003) ‘Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the Problem of Female Orality’ in Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Ed. by Marianne Henn and Holger Pausch. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp.315–332.
Benbow, H. (2003) “‘Die hungrige’: Penthesilea und die Unerhörtheit des weiblichen Hungers” in Frankfurter Kleist-Kolloquium. Ed. by Hans-Jochen Marquardt. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz.
Edited conference proceedings
Benbow, H. and Ernst, G., eds. (2003) (Sub)texts: New Perspectives on Language and Culture. School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature vol.3.
Book reviews
Benbow, H. (2007) Bay, Hansjörg, und Christof Hamann, Hg. Odradeks Lachen: Fremdheit bei Kafka. German Quarterly vol.80, no. 3, pp.402–403.
Benbow, H. (2005) Roger N. Lancaster, The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture. Gender Forum no.10. www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de
Benbow, H. (2002) Korporealitäten/The Body in Representation. antiTHESIS vol.13, pp.56–60.
Opinion articles
Benbow, H. (20/6/2002) ‘Billboard sex? No way. Street prostitution? No worries’ in The Age, p.15.
Benbow, H. (8/7/1999) ‘Seeking a feminism for all women’ in The Age, p.19.