Rachel MagShamhráin

As an undergraduate I studied German and French at Trinity College Dublin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. As a postgraduate I studied and lectured in the Department of German in TCD, spending a year on a DAAD-scholarship at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. My PhD dissertation was on the works of Heinrich von Kleist and their relationship to modernity. I have lectured in German language, literature, film, history of ideas and culture in Trinity College Dublin, the National College of Industrial Relations (now NCI), Mary Immaculate College and UCC. I have also worked as a translator, proofreader / language editor, and translation company manager. From 2008-2012, as member of the central committee of the German Studies Association of Ireland, in my capacity as publications secretary, I was the co-editor of the peer-reviewed, MLA-listed Germanistik in Ireland Yearbook. I was conference secretary for the Association for German Studies in the UK in Ireland, and serve on the Royal Irish Academy Committee on Languages Literatures and Cultures. As a former prize-winner, am a member of the Women in German publication prize awarding committee. I sit on the editorial boards of Germanistik in Ireland and German Studies in India: Indo-German. I am currently Vice-Head of College for EDI and Head of German Department. My research interests include all aspects of German Studies, with a particular interest in translation, adaptation and authorship, and in inclusion in both academia broadly and in Modern Languages specifically. I am a board member of Deaf Enterprises and Chief External Examiner in Languages & Intercultural Studies at Heriot Watt.