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Chair for English and American Cultural Studies

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  9. Dr. William Adamson

Dr. William Adamson

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Teaching Fellow

 

Contact:

Obere Karolinenstr. 8, Raum 02.03

D-96049 Bamberg

E-Mail: william.adamson(at)uni-bamberg.de

 

Please contact for appointments.

 

Academic Career

Since SS 2021 Teaching Fellow, Chair for English and American Cultural Studies, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

1991-2021 Academic Coordinator, English Department, Centre for Languages and Philology, Ulm University

1989-1996 C1 position, Centre for Languages and Philology, Ulm University

1984-89 Lecturer, Chair of English and American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

1983-84 Research Assistant, Chair of English and American Studies, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

 

Degrees

1982-89 Dr. Phil., Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

1978-81: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, M.A. – English and German Studies

1975-77: Middlesex University, London B.A. (Hons) - English and German Studies

 

 

Research Interests

Hopkins Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Film Studies; Crime Literature

 

Publications

 A. Books: 

Cadences of Unreason: A Study of Pride and Madness in the Novels of Tobias Smollett (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1990).

(with Bulmer, Frances) Which Words? - A Fresh Approach to Vocabulary Building for Advanced Students (Southampton: Englang Books,1993).

(Editor/Author): Raymond Chandler Jahrbuch /Raymond Chandler Yearbook Bänder /vols. 1-4 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1996-2001).

Mine Own Familiar Friend: The Relationship between Gerard Hopkins and Robert Bridges (Oxford:Peter Lang, 2021).


B. Articles (selection):

"Frauenbild bei Chandler” in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 1 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1996) 51-66.

"Das beobachtende Auge: Chandlers Gesellschaftskritik" in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 2 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1997) 23-37.

[Liam Ó Catháin (pseud.)] "The New Woman: The Hard-Boiled Female PI" in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 2 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1997) 57-71.

[Liam Ó Catháin (pseud.)] "The Problem of Ethnicity in Raymond Chandler's Novels" in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 3 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1999) 25-34.

"Chandler's Similes: A Selected Checklist" in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 4 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 2001) 91-98.

"The Dark Side of the Moon: An Appreciation of David Karp's One" in: Klotz/Timm (eds.) Literaten des 20 Jahrhunderts – Annäherungen, Ulmer Sprachstudien vol 8 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2001) 11-32.

"Der Friseur und der Text oder: Sagen Sie mal, was machen Sie beruflich?", in: Timm (ed.) Sprache als Thema und Medium der Kommunikation, Ulmer Sprachstudien vol. 13 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2004) 117-128.

"Footfalls of the Mind: Memory in William Kennedy’s Ironweed” in: Z. Mazur & T. Bela (eds.) Language and Identity: English and American Studies in the Age of Globalization vol. 1 (Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2006) 458-467.

“Displacement and Transcendence: Louis MacNeice” in: Timm/Klotz (eds.) Sprachen und Kulturen der Welt, Ulmer Sprachstudien vol.16 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2007) 43-50.

“No Vacation Tourist: The Rogue Genius of Sir Richard Burton” in: Timm/Uzcanga (eds.) Das Motive r Reise in der Literatur, Ulmer Sprachstudien vol. 18 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2010) 79-89.

(with Lamott, Franziska) “Urszenen. Blue Velvet: Voyeurismus” in: Möller/Doering (eds.) Batman und andere himmlische Kreaturen (Hamburg: Springer Verlag, 2010) 335-348.

(with Lamott, Franziska) “Brazil – ein Traum?” in: Parfen Laszig (ed.) Blade Runner, Matrix und Avatare:Psychoanalytische Betrachtungen virtueller Wesen und Welten im Film (Hamburg: Springer Verlag, 2013) 105-118.

“God’s Grandeur: A Close Reading” in: http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2016/gods_grandeur.html

“Carpe Diem: A Brief Examination of Andrew Marvell’s Poem ‘To his Coy Mistress’” in: Timm/Uzcanga (eds.), Zeit ist das, was man von der Uhr abliest, Ulmer Sprachstudien vol. 25 (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2017) 55-68.


C. Reviews (selection):

“Michael Lewin, Called by a Panther, Review” in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 1 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1999) 113-118.

"’Who Cares How A Writer Got His First Bicycle?’: Tom Hiney's Raymond Chandler" in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 3 (Passau: Andreas-Haller-Verlag, 1999) 93-97.

"The Third Man: Tom Nolan's Biography of Ross Macdonald" in: Raymond Chandler Yearbook 4 (Passau: Verlag Karl Stutz, 2001) 85-91.

“Desmond Egan, Epic” in: Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review vol. 104, no. 415, Autumn 2015 (Dublin: Irish Jesuits, 2015) 359-363.

“Desmond Egan, Epic” (abridged version) in: The Furrow. A Journal for the Contemporary Church vol. 66, no. 9 September 2015 (Maynooth: The Furrows Trust, 2015) 492-494.

The Collected Works of Gerard Manley HopkinsVol. V in: The Furrow. A Journal for the Contemporary Church vol. 66, no. 9 September 2015 (Maynooth: The Furrows Trust, 2019) 318-319.

“Brian Arkins, Towards a Credo” in: Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review vol. 111, no. 442, Summer 2022 (Dublin: Irish Jesuits, 2022) 208-11.


D. Literary translations

Robert Brack, short story "Trompeten für Max Jericho" ins Englische: "Trumpets for Max Jericho", erschienen in: Cody/Lewin/Lovesey (eds.) 3rd Culprit (Chatto & Windus, 1993) 234-242.