Research

Dr Anna Richards is interested in German women's writing from the eighteenth century to the present day and Empfindsamkeit in the late 18th century. She is particularly concerned with the relationship between psychological and medical history and the novel.

Her current research project, which she began as a Research Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation in Berlin in 2004-5, is an interdisciplinary investigation of mourning, consolation and the novel in the age of Enlightenment and sensibility.

Dr Richards is on the steering committee of the AHRC-funded three-year research project 'Representations of Women and Death in German Literature, Art and Media after 1500', and in 2006 she took over as 18th century German editor of The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies.