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Heather Benbow

Associate Professor
Languages and Linguistics
German cinema and television
Gender studies
Migrant literature and film
European
German
Australian food studies
social sciences
arts & humanities
germany
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Heather Benbow

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Food and war
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Projects

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Research Tools for Understanding the Role of Food in War Time

2018 - 2018
Completed
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Dyason application: Breaking Bread: German Experiences of Food and War in Transnational Context

2018 - 2018
Completed

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Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Secrets, Lies and Criminality in Australia’s »German Concentration Camp«

Heather Merle Benbow

Book Chapter  |  2022

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A Scholar of Secrecy

Heather Merle Benbow, Andrew Wright Hurley, Brangwen Stone

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Beyond bully beef: soldiers, food and transcultural interactions in World War I

Heather Merle Benbow, Kate Darian-Smith, Veronique Duche-Gavet

Journal article  |  2021  |  FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY

Important recent scholarship has highlighted the social, cultural, religious and emotional significance of food, drink and hunger ..

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Hunger: how food shaped the course of the First World War

Heather Merle Benbow

Journal article  |  2020  |  First World War Studies

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Languages at Work: Defining the Place of Work-Integrated Learning in Language Studies

Lara Anderson, Kay Are, Heather Benbow

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter makes an argument for the place of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) in tertiary language studies, with specific referen..

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Integration geht durch den Magen?: Interkulturelles Essen in „Krisenzeiten“

Heather Benbow

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War

Heather Benbow, Heather Perry

Book  |  2019

Examines the social, cultural and emotional significance of food and hunger in World War I, World War II and the Global Cold War

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Transnational Turkish German Travelogues: Turkish German Women Writers' Millennial Travelogues

Heather Benbow

Book Chapter  |  2019

As a first-person account of a real journey, Einbruch der Wirklichkeit belongs to the broad genre of travel literature. Travel wri..

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Hunger Pangs: The Contours of Violence and Food Scarcity in Germany’s Twentieth-Century Wars

Heather Benbow, Heather R Perry

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Food, Drink and Hunger for World War I German Soldiers

Heather Benbow

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Keyword Analysis

Cultural Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Literary Studies
Communication
Language Studies
Historical Studies
Other Culture and Society
Gender Studies
Political Science
Linguistics

News

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What Australian soldiers ate for Christmas in WWI

Heather Merle Benbow, Deborah Tout-Smith

We have just concluded four years of commemoration of the centenary of the first world war and, although the guns fell silent in November 1..

December 19, 2018
conversation Article
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Far right are the ‘real’ winners in the German election

Heather Merle Benbow

As the dust settles on the German election, it seems the political instability that’s been seen throughout the West has now arrived in Germ..

September 25, 2017
pursuit Article
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East Timor, war, coffee and Australia's debt of honour

Heather Merle Benbow

Australian soldiers have long relied on an East Timorese hospitality epitomised by its coffee. The fond appreciation for the nation’s bea..

April 23, 2017
conversation Article
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Dinner in No-Man’s Land

Heather Merle Benbow

At one point during the endless fighting in France in World War One, a tired German soldier, Wilhelm Spengler, threw himself down to rest i..

April 23, 2017
pursuit Article
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Bread like chaff and putrid rations: how WW1 troops obsessed over food

Heather Merle Benbow

Sing me to sleep, the bullets fall Let me forget the war & all Damp is my dugout, cold is my feet Nothing but biscuits & bully t..

April 21, 2016
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Feeding the troops: the emotional meaning of food in wartime

Heather Merle Benbow

“Can an egg save a soldier?” So asked a full-page advertisement for Sunny Queen Farms in the The Age’s Sunday Life magazine last month. A y..

September 29, 2015
conversation Article

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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Languages and Linguistics

Deputy Associate Dean Graduate Research

Arts

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (honours)

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

University of Tübingen

Germany