Hanna Bingel-Jones teaches German literature, language, and culture in the German Department. After studying English and German for a teaching degree in Giessen and Sheffield, she completed her GCSC-funded PhD at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Giessen University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning. She has taught German literature and language at the universities of Volgograd (2011-2014) and Leipzig (2014-2016), before joining the UCC German Department as a DAAD lecturer from 2016 to 2020. She subsequently held two postdoctoral research positions in the Department, which included working on the Irish Research Council-funded project Speaking the Predicament: Words and Stories for the Anthropocene, led by Prof. Caitríona Ní Dhúill.

Her research centres on German literature, with special focus on lyricology, the interrelation of theology, religion and poetry, ecocritical approaches, and the resonance of medieval traditions of religious mysticism in contemporary poetic writing. Further areas of publication include narrative and literary memory studies, literature of the GDR, and the didactics of literature in the foreign-language classroom.

German language literature (historical and contemporary), nature poetry; nationalism and national identity in German cultural history, MA adaptation theory, and MA translation studies; The didactics of literature in the foreign language classroom; Teaching German as a foreign language (proficiency levels A1-C2)