Dr Nicolette David

MA (Cantab), MA (Lond), PhD (Lond)

Lecturer

Contact details

Department of European Cultures and Languages
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
E-mail: n.david@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7631 6172

Profile

Dr Nicolette David is a lecturer in German at Birkbeck, University of London.

Her specialist fields of interest are critical theory, especially psychoanalysis and gender; drama and the novel in the 19th and 20th centuries; German and Austrian Modernism; Weimar Culture; and Film Studies.

She is currently working on Desire in Thomas Mann.

Publications

Book          

Love, Hate and Literature: Kleinian Readings of Dante, Ponge, Rilke and Sarraute, (Peter Lang, 2003)

Article         

‘The violence of writing in Nathalie Sarraute’s Les Fruits d’or and ‘Disent les imbéciles’, French Studies, Volume 2, April 2000

Chapter      

‘Germinal: the Naturalist Novel’, in The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms, ed. Delia da Sousa Correa (Routledge, 2000)

Translation  

Collaborative translation of Nietzsche’s ‘Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinn’, translated as Nietzsche, ‘On Truth and Extra-Moral Sense’ in The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader, ed. Stephen Regan (Routledge, 2001)