Prof Joanne Leal

Positions held:

Professor of German Studies, Department of Cultures & Languages

Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules
- The Arts: Perspectives and Possibilities (ARAR008S3)
- The Arts: Questioning the Contemporary World (ARAR009S3)
- Memory and History (ARCL065S7)
- Berlin since 1945: History and Culture (Level 5) (ARCL116H5)
- Reading Transnational Cultures (Level 4) (ARCL126S4)
- Cultural Perspectives on German History (AREL042S4)
- Fundamentals of Study: Learning through the Global City (CASE002S3)
- Understanding Culture: Language and Texts (LNLN021S4)
- Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality (Level 5) (LNLN024S5)
- Understanding the City (SSGE105S7)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Leal, Joanne (2012) American cinema and the construction of masculinity in film in the Federal Republic after 1945. German Life and Letters 65 (1), pp. 59-72. ISSN 0016-8777.
- Leal, Joanne (2011) The interpersonal is political: locating the ethical subject in Katharina Hacker’s "Die Habenichtse". Angermion 4, pp. 165-182. ISSN 1438-2091.
- Leal, Joanne and Rossade, K.-D. (2008) Negotiating gender, sexuality and ethnicity in Fatih Akin’s and Thomas Arslan’s urban spaces. German as a Foreign Language (3), pp. 59-87. ISSN 1470-9570.
- Rossade, K.-D. and Leal, Joanne (2008) Introduction: cinema and migration since unification. German as a Foreign Language (1), ISSN 1470-9570.
- Rossade, K.-D. and Leal, Joanne (2008) Introduction: cultural responses to migration experiences since unification. German as a Foreign Language (3), pp. 1-3. ISSN 1470-9570.
- Leal, Joanne (2006) Introduction: German film since the Wende. German as a Foreign Language 2006 (1), ISSN 1470-9570.
- Leal, Joanne (2006) Time, transformation and tradition in Oskar Roehler's 'Die Unberührbare'. German as a Foreign Language 2006 (1), pp. 76-89. ISSN 1470-9570.
- Leal, Joanne (2004) Book review: "The German Cinema Book". German as a Foreign Language 2004 (2), pp. 126-129. ISSN 1470-9570.
- Leal, Joanne (2003) Berlin - still a divided city? ideological dualism in post-Wende fiction. German as a Foreign Language 2003 (1), pp. 30-44. ISSN 1470-9570.
- Leal, Joanne (1999) The end of fiction: Botho Strauß's 'Kongreß. Die Fette der Demütigungen and Fragmente der Undeutlichkeit'. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 35 (2), pp. 134-154. ISSN 0037-1939.
- Leal, Joanne (1997) The politics of 'Innerlichkeit': Karin Struck's 'Klassenuebe' and Verena Stefan's 'Häutungen'. German Life and Letters 50 (4), pp. 508-528. ISSN 0016-8777.
- Leal, Joanne and White, J.J. (1997) Book review: "The Future of German Literature". Modern Language Review 92 (1), pp. 257-259. ISSN 0026-7937.
Book
- Brady, M. and Leal, Joanne (2011) Wim Wenders and Peter Handke: collaboration, adaptation, recomposition. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. (147), Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi. ISBN 9789042032477.
Book Review
- Leal, Joanne (2004) The German cinema book.
Book Section
- Leal, Joanne (2020) Cinema as intercultural communication. In: Rings, G. and Rasinger, S. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108555067.
- Leal, Joanne (2012) Troubled parents, angry children: the difficult legacy of 1968 in contemporary German films. In: Mueller, G. and Skidmore, J.M. (eds.) Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 115-132. ISBN 9781554582259.
- Leal, Joanne (2010) Restablilzing masculinity through autobiography after 1968. In: Preußer, H.-P. and Schmitz, H. (eds.) Autobiographie und historische Krisenerfahrung. Jahrbuch Literatur und Politik. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH. pp. 177-192. ISBN 9783825357399.
- Leal, Joanne (2007) Sexuality and the city: a comparison of Irmgard Keun's 'Das Kunstseidene Mädchen' and Tanja Dücker's 'Spielzone'. In: Weiss-Sussex, G. and Zitzlsperger, U. (eds.) Berlin: Kultur und Metropole in den zwanziger und seit den neunziger Jahren. Munich, Germany: Iudicium. pp. 29-43. ISBN 9783891298671.
- Leal, Joanne (2001) Neue subjektivität. In: Sandford, J. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415263528.
- Leal, Joanne (2001) Nicolas Born. In: Sandford, J. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415263528.
- Leal, Joanne (2001) Verena Stefan. In: Sandford, J. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415263528.
- Leal, Joanne (1997) The politics of innerlichkeit: Karin Struck's 'Klassenliebe' and Verena Stefan's 'Huutungen'. In: Littler, M. (ed.) Gendering German Studies. Chicester, UK: Wiley. pp. 130-150. ISBN 9780631209287.
Conference Item
- Leal, Joanne and Havemann, Leo and Barros, Joana and Drew, Elizabeth (2016) Transitions: recruit, support, retain. Learning and Teaching Seminars, 2016, London, UK
- Havemann, Leo and Drew, Liz and Barros, Joana and Leal, Joanne (2013) Special blend: developing a model for technology-enhanced, flexible learning. Can We Do It? Yes We Can: HEA/SEEC Conference 2013, 2013, London, UK
Editorial
- Leal, Joanne (2006) Introduction: German Film since the Wende (2). German as a Foreign Language 2006 (3), pp. 1-6. German Academic Exchange Service/Goethe-Institut. ISSN 1470-9570.

Prof Joanne Leal

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

Publications

Article

Book

Book Review

Book Section

Conference Item

Editorial