Jeannine Jud

Dr. Jeannine Jud is Lecturer of German at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, Ireland. She is a graduate of the University of Galway, where she obtained a BA International in German and History, followed by an MA in German and a PhD in German. Jeannine was awarded the Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship for the duration of her structured PhD. She was also the recipient of the DAAD postgraduate research scholarship which enabled her to carry out research at the libraries of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin during her doctoral studies. Jeannine's research and teaching interests include multilingualism and language developments in Switzerland and Ireland as well as GDR literature, in particular the literature of Christa Wolf, Holocaust literature and trauma and memory studies.  Jeannine is a member of the Christa Wolf Gesellschaft, the German Studies Association of Ireland and the research network Literatur im geteilten Deutschland.

Multilingualism and language developments in Switzerland and Ireland as well as GDR literature, in particular the literature of Christa Wolf, Holocaust literature and trauma and memory studies.  

German to English and English to German translation, the literature of Christa Wolf and Ruth Klüger, the role of women in the GDR, the sociolinguistic development of Swiss German.