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Email

lewisa@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professor Emeritus)
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
Adelaide University
Masters (Coursework)
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
ORCID

0000-0002-8310-4205

Prof Alison Lewis

Honorary (Professor Emeritus)
School of Languages and Linguistics

94 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Collaborating with the East German Secret Police: Reading the Stasi Archives with Counter-Archives
    DOI: 10.30965/18763308-20252003
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Der Erste Weltkrieg und seine Verschwörungstheorien: 1914 und 1918
  • 2022

    Book Chapter

    Teaching European History and Memory through the Eurovision Song Contest during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003188933-7
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    KGB Empire: State Security Archives in the Former Eastern Bloc
  • 2021

    Book

    A State of Secrecy Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance
  • 2021

    Book Chapter

    Citizen informants, glitches in the system, and the limits of collaboration: Eastern experiences in the Cold War Era
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Die Funktion des Nörglers innerhalb der Motivketten in Karl Kraus’ Die letzten Tage der Menschheit
    DOI: 10.5771/9783968216492-33
Alison Lewis

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2005
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Herausforderungen für die australische Germanistik. German Studies als ‚life writing studies‘ und der transnationale und interdisziplinäre ‚turn‘.
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Stasiakten als life writing: Figurationen eines staatsfeindlichen Lebens
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    Generation, Erinnerungsarbeit und Verrat in Memoiren von Kindern von Stasioffizieren und -kollaborateuren
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Legacies of East German communism: Thought from Germany during the Covid-19 Pandemic

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2012

    Research Grant

    Secret Lives and the Lives of Secrets: Secret Police Narratives
  • 2008

    Research Grant

    The Meaning of Love: Love Narratives in Contemporary German Literature Since 1990
  • 2008

    Internal Research Grant

    The Meaning of Love: Love Narratives in Contemporary German Literature Since 1990
  • Research Grant

    A Difficult Marriage: Gender, Politics and the Romance in Literary Accounts of German Unification

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