Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2193
E-Mail:	g.m.l.crauwels@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Duitse T&L
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 2 2311 BV Leiden Room number 1.05a

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Fields of interest

German Language and Culture
Contemporary German Literature
Literature and Ideology
Discourse Studies and Literature

Research

- The subject of totalitarian discourse: inquiries into the reclaiming of self-government in post-GDR-literature, and into normalization processes and disciplinary measures in totalitarian state forms and their literarization.
- Childhood and adolesscence in (post-)GDR-literature: reflections in various autobiographical accounts. A discourse-analytical inquiry.
- The construction of history and reality in (post-)GDR-literature and in totalitarian discourse.
- Max Frisch: the hermeneutics of the subject against the background of communicative and cultural memory studies.

Teaching activities

- German Literature (20th-21st century) - Reading seminar
- German Language: Vertiefung II (lecture, seminar and tutorial)
- Germany in Cultural Studies (lecture and tutorial)
- German literature (lecture and seminar): Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Curriculum vitae

- 2005-2010 Doctoral Thesis at Catholic University of Leuven (K. U. Leuven)
- 1996-1997 Teacher Training College at Catholic University of Leuven
- 1994-1995 Student of German Literature at Universität Köln
- 1989-1994 Licentiate years at the Catholic University of Leuven

- 2011 to present: Lecturer at Leiden University - Dept. German Language and Culture
- 2002-2011: Teaching and Research Assistant (German, English and Master Meertalige Communicatie) at VLEKHO/Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Brussels, and Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel
- 1997 and 1999-2002: Lecturer of German, English and Communication Studies at the Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
- 1997-1999: Cultural Officer at the City of Lier (Belgium)

- 1998-2002: Committee Member of the Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband (BGDV); 2002 to present: regular member

Key publications

- (in preparation) Crauwels, Geert (2012) 'The I and the Socialist Personality. The Questioning of an Ideological Concept in Post-GDR Literary Autobiographical Discourse.' In Lams, Lut/Serban, Henrieta Anisoara/Crauwels, Geert (Eds.): The Totalitarian Discourse - A Historical Reality and Present Temptation? (working title).

- Crauwels, Geert (2011). 'Über die sprachlose Sprache. Modi memorandi und Collage als Kompositionstechnik in Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän.' In de Vin, Daniel (Red.): Max Frisch. Citoyen und Poet. (p. 106-119). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.

- Crauwels, Geert(2010). 'Und der Zukunft zugewandt.' Abschied von Kindheit und Jugend in der Ex-DDR-Literatur. Drei diskursive Lesarten. (Diss., 482 p.). Leuven.

- Crauwels, Geert (2007) 'Neue T-Shirts und alte Klamotten. Identitätsgestaltung und Authentizitätssuche bei Jakob Hein, André Kubiczek und Claudia Rusch.' In Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband (Red.): Germanistische Mitteilungen. Zeitschrift für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kultur. (66/2007). (p. 63-81). Brussel.