Personal profile
Research overview
My research focuses on legacies of violence (in particular National Socialism and the Holocaust) in contemporary German and Austrian culture. I have published widely on contemporary literature, memorial projects, film and visual culture. I am the author of two monographs, Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr (Legenda, 2013) and What Remains: the Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture (Camden House, 2020). My current research project uses insights from Animal Studies and theories of the posthuman to consider the role of taxidermy and fur in literature and film.
I am co-Director of the German Screen Studies Network and co-General Editor of Austrian Studies.
Teaching activity
I teach German langauge and culture at all levels. I offer research-led Honours modules on the following topics:
- Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture
- Holocaust Memory and Its Discontents
- Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond
- Animals in Literature and Film
I am happy to supervise PhD projects on topics relating to post-1945 literature and film, as well as Animal Studies and the posthuman in German and Austrian contexts
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Under the surface: hunting, collecting and taxidermy in Ulrich Seidl's Safari (2016) and Joerg Burger's Archiv der Zukunft (2023)
Osborne, D., 10 Feb 2026, In: Austrian Studies. 33, p. 81-102Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Furriery and taxidermy in Uwe Timm: the implications of Handwerk
Osborne, D. E., 6 Oct 2025, In: Modern Language Review. 120, 4, p. 541-561Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Framing the archive through autofiction: Christa Wolf's Stadt der Engel oder The Overcoat of Dr. Freud and Natascha Wodin's Sie kam aus Mariupol
Osborne, D. E., 1 Dec 2023, Erinnerung - Autofiktion - Archiv. Eigler, F. & Kniesche, T. W. (eds.). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, p. 33-54 22 p. (Gegenwartsliteratur; vol. 22).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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‘Ein Mann, dem die Welt vertraut’: Kurt Waldheim’s global legacy in Ruth Beckermann’s Waldheims Walzer
Osborne, D. E., 26 Jan 2023, In: Austrian Studies. 30, p. 83-98 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Undoing the human in the films of Maren Ade
Osborne, D. E., Sept 2022, In: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 58, 3, p. 308-327Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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German Screen Studies Network: Rethinking Histories, Sustaining Futures
Flaig, P. (PI) & Osborne, D. (PI)
German Academic Exchange Service Daad
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Standard
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The Politics of Contemporary German: The Politics of Contemporary German Culture
Osborne, D. (PI)
Institute of Modern Languages Research
26/04/19 → 27/04/19
Project: Standard