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Dr. Sabine Baltes
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Tel. +49 (0)3715314223
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Biographical Note:
Sabine Baltes (b. 1973) studied English Language and Literature, Modern History, and Economics at the Westf�lische Wilhelms-Universit�t, M�nster, and at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland). She took her M. A. in 1999, and her Dr phil. in 2002. From 1997 to 1999, she worked at the Institut f�r Buchwissenschaft und Textforschung, in 2000 at the Labor f�r Biophysik, and in 2002 at the Ehrenpreis-Institut f�r Swift Studien at the Westf�lische Wilhelms-Universit�t, M�nster. She is a member of the Friends of the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies and the Anglistenverband.
Research Interests:
Irish studies, eighteenth-century literature, contemporary drama, ephemeral literature (pamphlets), history of the book.
Publications:
Books:
The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood's Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2003.
Editions:
Jonathan Swift's Allies: The Controversy about Wood's Halfpence (1724-25). Bethesda: Academica Press, 2004.
Articles:
"To Kill a Mockingbird: Einsatzm�glichkeiten des filmischen Originals im Unterricht der Sek. II" (1998) (http://www.heliweb.de/telic/baltessa.htm).
"Diversion, Dollars and the Dean: Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture." Swift Studies, 19 (2004), 110-120.
"Swiftian Material Culture." The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe, ed. Hermann J. Real. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005, pp. 273-83.
"Father Time: The Emblematic and Iconographic Context of "The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity" in Swift's Tale." Swift Studies, 20 (2005) (forthcoming).
Reviews:
"Rez. Peter James Harris. Sean O'Casey's Letters and Autobiographies: Reflections of a Radical Ambivalence. Trier: WVT, 2004," Anglistik 17/1 (M�rz 2006) (forthcoming)
Talks:
"Diversion, Dollars and the Dean: Jonathan Swift und die moderne Popul�rkultur" (Konferenz Literature and the Media: Herausforderungen an die Kulturwissenschaften im Medienzeitalter, Chemnitz 15.-16. Januar 2004).
"Father Time: The Emblematic and Iconographic Context of the Dedication to Prince Posterity in A Tale of a Tub" (Third Annual Swift Symposium, Dublin 17.-18. Oktober 2004).
"'The Nanny Named Fran:' An American Sitcom and the British Governess Novel" (Konferenz Intermedialit�t: Herausforderungen an die Kulturwissenschaften im Medienzeitalter, Chemnitz 3.-4. Februar 2005).
"Anything but Human: Gods, Beasts, and Demons in Swift's Poems on William Wood" (The First German-Japanese Conference on Jonathan Swift, Tokio 29.-30. Oktober 2005).
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