Barbara Siller

Barbara Siller is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German (https://www.ucc.ie/en/german/) within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She earned her MA degree in German and Romance Literature and Linguistics at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck in Austria and at the L’ Università dell’Aquila in Italy. After five years as an OEK-Lecturer in the Department of German / University College Cork she carried out her IRCHSS-funded PhD study in Trinity College Dublin (Germanic Studies) which she completed in 2011 (supervisors Prof. Juergen Barkhoff & Prof. Peter Arnds). Upon 3 years of postdoctoral research at the research institute Brenner-Archiv / University of Innsbruck, she took on the role of Lecturer in German Studies and the Director of MA Applied Linguistics in University College Cork in 2016.

Barbara Siller is the co-convenor of the Cluster 'Rethinking Spatial Humanities' (http://casilac.ie/rethinking-spatial-humanities/) together with Dr Silvia Ross, Giulia Bernuzzi and Dr. Charlotte Berkery.

She's the Action Chair of the EU COST Action Literary multilingualism and social transformations in superdiverse societies Action CA24137 - COST (2025-2029).https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA24137/ 

• Literary Multilingualism 
• Memory in Contemporary Fiction
• Literary Topographies and Temporalities
• Contemporary Austrian literature
• Translation and Self-Translation
• Identity/Alterity Narratives

GE 2150 Memory in Contemporary Fiction

GE2102 Linguistics I

GE 3150 Literary Topographies

GE 3151 Migration, Multilingualism and Literature

AL6013 Critical Discourse Analysis

LL 6023 Poetry and Translation  

GE 1122 Reading and Writing the German-speaking World (Section: Literary Multilingualism; Creative Writing)

LL 3102 European Cultural Capitals (Section: Vienna in the first half of the 21st Century)

LL2108 and LL6001 Spatial theories