Dr. Michaela Schrage Frueh
Biography
Michaela Schrage-Früh joined UL as Associate Professor in German Studies in 2023. Prior to this she was a Lecturer in German at the University of Galway (2017-2023), DAAD-Lecturer at UL (2012-2017) and Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Mainz (2001-2012).In UL she is Director of the Centre for European Studies and Erasmus coordinator for outgoing students.
Her main research interests include gender and ageing studies; cultural, literary, and philosophical dream studies, and German-Irish Studies. She is a founding member of WARN (Women and Ageing Research Network) and a member of the Network of Cultural Dream Studies. In December 2021 she was an invited guest lecturer at the Research Training Group 'European Dream Cultures', University of Saarbrücken. From 2019-2022 she was part of the Irish research team of the ERC-funded project "MASCAGE: Ageing Masculinities in European Cinemas and Literatures" and from 2021-2022 she was PI of the IRC-funded project "Restorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing".
Michaela is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate work on any aspect of ageing in literature and culture or on any other aspect related to contemporary German, Anglophone or comparative literature, especially in a European context.
Research Interests
- cultural and literary ageing studies
- cultural dream studies
- European cultural studies
- German and comparative literature (especially, fiction, life writing and poetry)
- women's writing from the eighteenth century to the present
- language learning/virtual exchange
- German-Irish cultural connections
Professional Activities
Committee
- 2023 ENAS Academic Advisory Board,
- 2022 GSAI committee,
Award
- 2023 - Research Development Scheme
- 2023 - Virtual Mobility Fund
- 2021 - IRC New Foundations Award
- 2021 - Short-term Guest Lectureship, Research Training Group "European Dream Cultures"
- 2016 - Book Completion Award
- 2015 - IRC New Foundations Award
- 2004 - Doctoral Dissertation Award
Association
- 2023 Co-chair, German Studies Association in Ireland
- 2023 Advisory Board Member, European Network in Ageing Studies
- 2016 Member, Network of Cultural Dream Studies
- 2015 Co-Founder, Women and Ageing Research Network
- 2012 Member, Business German in Ireland Working Group
Employment
- 2023 University of Limerick - Associate Professor A in German Studies
- 2017 University of Galway - Lecturer in German
- 2012 University of Limerick - DAAD-Lecturer
- 2001 University of Mainz - Lecturer in English Literature
Peer Reviewed Journals
Using Autoethnography in e-Tandems for Fostering Glocal Cultural Awareness: An Irish-German Virtual Exchange
Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Wehrmann, Jürgen (2023) Using Autoethnography in e-Tandems for Fostering Glocal Cultural Awareness: An Irish-German Virtual Exchange. Journal of Virtual Exchange
Wedded to the Land? Representations of Rural Ageing Masculinities in Irish Culture and Society
Ní Léime, Áine; O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Tracy, Tony (2022) Wedded to the Land? Representations of Rural Ageing Masculinities in Irish Culture and Society. Journal Of Aging Studies
Reimagining the Fourth Age: The Ageing Mother in the Poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2018) Reimagining the Fourth Age: The Ageing Mother in the Poetry of Mary Dorcey and Paul Durcan. Nordic Irish Studies :77-93
Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2013) Negotiating Historical Trauma: The Great Famine as Memory and Metaphor in Contemporary Irish Fiction. Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory :59-74
'Transforming that Past': The Healing Power of Dreams in the Poetry of Paula Meehan
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'Transforming that Past': The Healing Power of Dreams in the Poetry of Paula Meehan. An Sionnach :114-126
'My Heart Beats as Though It Were / Hers': Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'My Heart Beats as Though It Were / Hers': Medbh McGuckian's Intertextual Dialogues with Women in Marconi's Cottage. Nordic Irish Studies :43-56
An Interview with Medbh McGuckian
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2005) An Interview with Medbh McGuckian. Contemporary Literature :1-17
Books
Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2016) Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2004) Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian. Trier : WVT
Book Chapters
Time Travel, Age/ing and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020)
Pusse, Tina-Karen; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2023) Time Travel, Age/ing and Ecology in the German Netflix Series Dark (2017-2020). Washington D.C. : Lexington Aging Studies and Ecocriticism - Interdisciplinary Encounters
Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsromann
Schrage-Früh, Michaela; O'Neill, Margaret (2023) Novels of Ripening: The Maturation of the Bildungsromann . London : Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film :11-23
'Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's 'Der alte König in seinem Exil' and Ian Maleney's 'Minor Monuments'
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2022) 'Stories of Exile and Home: Dementia and Masculinity in Arno Geiger's 'Der alte König in seinem Exil' and Ian Maleney's 'Minor Monuments'. London : Bloomsbury Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
'Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's 'The Sea', Sebastian Barry's 'The Secret Scripture' and Anne Griffin's 'When All is Said'
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2022) 'Uncanny Reflections: Older Widowers in John Banville's 'The Sea', Sebastian Barry's 'The Secret Scripture' and Anne Griffin's 'When All is Said'. London : Routledge Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture
'Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing'
O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2021) 'Surplus to Requirements? The Ageing Body in Contemporary Irish Writing' . London : Routledge The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies :435-447
'The Aging Contemporary: Aging Families and Generational Connections in Irish Writing
O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2020) 'The Aging Contemporary: Aging Families and Generational Connections in Irish Writing. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press The New Irish Studies :177-191
'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2019) 'Struck with Ireland Fever: Hugo Hamilton's Berlin Trilogy. Trier : WVT Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR
'Embarking, Not Dying: Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2017) 'Embarking, Not Dying: Clare Boylan's Beloved Stranger as Reifungsroman. London : Palgrave Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings :55-71
Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2016) Imagination und Traum-Autorschaft im viktorianischen Traumdiskurs. Goettingen : Wallstein Verlag Das nächtliche Selbst: Traumwissen und Traumkunst im Jahrhundert der Psychologie. Band 1. 1850-1900. :150-169
Introduction
Schrage-Frueh, Michaela and Farago, Borbala (2015) Introduction. Winston-Salem : WFU Press The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems by Medbh McGuckian :xiii-xxxvii
Foreigners Within: Identity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Foreigners Within: Identity, Belonging and the Migrant Other in Barry McCrea's The First Verse and Sean O'Reilly's The Swing of Things. New York : Peter Lang The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film :121-142
'Like a Foreigner / in my Native Land': Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2014) 'Like a Foreigner / in my Native Land': Transculturality and Otherness in Twenty-First Century Irish Poetry. Manchester : MUP Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland :263-275
"Aren't We Citizens of the World?" Irish Diaspora and Its (Dis)Contents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) "Aren't We Citizens of the World?" Irish Diaspora and Its (Dis)Contents in Deirdre Madden's One by One in the Darkness, Anne Devlin's After Easter and Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You . Trier : WVT Ireland in / and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges :137-146
"The Roots of Art are in the Dream": Dreams, Literature and Evolution
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) "The Roots of Art are in the Dream": Dreams, Literature and Evolution. Berlin : De Gruyter Telling Stories : Literature and Evolution :156-171
'(Un-)Writing the Self': Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Women's Religious Prophecy
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) '(Un-)Writing the Self': Authorial Strategies in Seventeenth-Century Women's Religious Prophecy. Trier : WVT Proceedings: Anglistentag 2011 :167-182
'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk': Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2011) 'The Danger of Biscuit-Coloured Silk': Dress, Playfulness and Sensuality in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian and Paula Meehan. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture :95-114
Jackie Kay (1961- )
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2010) Jackie Kay (1961- ). Detroit, Mi : Gale, Cengage Learning Twenty-first-century 'Black' British Writers :166-176
"Land of the Luas": Dublin's 'Fast City' in Recent Irish Writing
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2010) "Land of the Luas": Dublin's 'Fast City' in Recent Irish Writing. Trier : WVT Proceedings: Anglistentag 2010 :351-360
Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2010) Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian. Cork : Cork UP The Interior of Words: The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian :22-40
'So much Psychic Land to Reclaim': Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'So much Psychic Land to Reclaim': Otherworldly Encounters in Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Poetry. Oxford et al. : Peter Lang Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture :151-171
'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate': The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2006) 'My Being Cries Out to Be Incarnate': The Virgin Mary and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry. Dublin : Irish Academic Press The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry :123-143
Edited Books
Well, You Don't Look It: Women Writers in Ireland Reflect on Ageing
(2024) Well, You Don't Look It: Women Writers in Ireland Reflect on Ageing. Ennistymon : Salmon Poetry
Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema
(2023) Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema . Routledge : London
Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture
(2022) Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture. London : Routledge
Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives
(2020) Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. London : Routledge
Special Issue of Life Writing: Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives
(2018) Special Issue of Life Writing: Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives. London : Taylor and Francis
Special Issue of Nordic Irish Studies: Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film
(2018) Special Issue of Nordic Irish Studies: Women and Ageing in Irish Writing, Drama and Film. Dalarna, Sweden : Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies
Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings
(2017) Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings. Cham : Palgrave
Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems
(2015) Medbh McGuckian: New Selected Poems. Winston-Salem : WFU Press :1-304
Other Journals
'The Multiplicity of What I am': Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2009) 'The Multiplicity of What I am': Black Scottishness in the Poetry of Jackie Kay. Folia Litteraria Anglica :67-78
Conference Publications
Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English
Heinz, Sarah ; Kirchhofer, Anton; Rennhak, Katharina; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2013) Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English. :3-10
Conference Contributions
ReStorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing
Schrage-Früh, Michaela; O'Neill, Maggie; Hanrahan, Karen (2022) ReStorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing.
Clash of Cultures? Bildungsvermittlung zwischen den Generationen im Zeichen der digitalen Revolution
Byrnes, Deirdre; Pusse, Tina; Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Walter; Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2022) Clash of Cultures? Bildungsvermittlung zwischen den Generationen im Zeichen der digitalen Revolution.
Der Deutsche Wald: Kulturgeschichte, Ökologie, Mythologie
Byrnes, Deirdre; Pusse, Tina; Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Walter; Schrage-Frueh, Michaela (2021) Der Deutsche Wald: Kulturgeschichte, Ökologie, Mythologie.
Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema
Schrage-Früh, Michaela; Tracy, Tony (2021) Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Anglophone and European Cinema.
Women, Ageing and Life Narrative
Schrage-Früh, Michaela; O'Neill, Margaret (2018) Women, Ageing and Life Narrative.
Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives
McGlynn, Cathy; O'Neill, Margaret; Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives.
Cognitive Futures in the Humanities
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2014) Cognitive Futures in the Humanities.
Gender and Migrant Writing
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2013) Gender and Migrant Writing.
IASIL conference 2013: Urban Cultures
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2013) IASIL conference 2013: Urban Cultures.
EFACIS conference 2013 (Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands)
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2013) EFACIS conference 2013 (Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands).
Mainzer Lyriklabor "Traumspiele"
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Mainzer Lyriklabor "Traumspiele".
Immersion and the Storyworld
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Immersion and the Storyworld.
AEDEI conference
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) AEDEI conference.
Colloquium on Ageing in Germany and Ireland
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Colloquium on Ageing in Germany and Ireland.
Centre for German Irish Studiers (MA seminar)
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2012) Centre for German Irish Studiers (MA seminar).
Anglistentag 2011 (Freiburg)
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2011) Anglistentag 2011 (Freiburg).
Anglistentag 2010 (Saarbrücken)
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2010) Anglistentag 2010 (Saarbrücken).
IASIL conference 2010
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2010) IASIL conference 2010.
Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Violence, Trauma and Loss
Michaela Schrage-Frueh (2010) Contemporary British Fiction: Narrating Violence, Trauma and Loss.
Published Reports
Editorials
Book Reviews
Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi....
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi..... Irish University Review 45:2 : Edinburgh UP :385-391
Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.. ZAA 1:1 :101-103
Other Publications
OK Boomer: Alters- und Generationendiskurse in den (sozialen) Medien und im Unterricht
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2022) OK Boomer: Alters- und Generationendiskurse in den (sozialen) Medien und im Unterricht .
Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi....
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2015) Review of: Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Scottish and Irish Studies, 2012), Leontia Flynn, Reading Medbh McGuckian (Dublin: Irish Academi..... Irish University Review 45:2 : Edinburgh UP :385-391
Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.
Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2012) Review of: Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009.. ZAA 1:1 :101-103