缅北禁地

Background

I am a Germanist who teaches and researches philosophy and the arts (literature, poetry and film). I have been teaching at 缅北禁地 since 2004.

Roles and Responsibilities

Personal Tutor

Year Abroad Officer (Incoming)

Qualifications

BA(Hons) German and Russian Literatures and Languages (Cambridge)

MA Modern German Literature and Theory (London)

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (Warwick)

PhD German Studies (Warwick)

Previous Positions

2003-2004: Senior Lecturer in German, Oxford Brookes University.

2001-2003: Temporary Lecturer in German, University of Warwick.

1997-2001: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Warwick.

Memberships

Women in German Studies, AGS, IVG

I am currently working on racial capitalism which combines the critique of capitalism with critical analysis of (neo)colonialism to understand contemporary global inequalities. My aim is to make the concepts and methodologies associated with racial capitalism more central within German Studies. Currently this means investigating how specific German-language texts (literature, poetry and film) enable anti-racist and anti-capitalist critique.

I research literature and continental philosophy (phenomenology, ontology, feminist philosophy, deconstruction). I focus on experimental writing and poetry in German exploring the intersection of aesthetics, politics and ethics. Current projects include textuality, autofiction and temporality in the work of Friederike Mayröcker. I have published on a range of topics such as feminist materialisms, relational ontologies, alterity, Austrian poetry and literature, Michael Marder’s ‘vegetal philosophy’, Deleuze and Guattari’s minor literature, trauma, embodiment, pluralism, narrative and power, coloniality/decoloniality, the uncanny and the sublime.

Previously, I have worked extensively on the German writer, poet and essayist Anne Duden linking her work to philosophers such as Nietzsche, Adorno, Irigaray, Lacan, and Deleuze.

Postgraduate Supervision

Contemporary and Modern German-language literature and poetry, continental philosophy, critical theory and film.

Undergraduate Teaching (current)

GER4019 Society, Media, Identities in Contemporary Germany and Austria

SML4008 Storytelling and Memory Across Borders

GER2010 Berlin: culture, literature, film from the Weimar Republic to the present day

SML1021 Introduction to International Film

SML1121 and SML1221 International Film

SML4099 Dissertation

Postgraduate Teaching (current)

FMS8366 Film and Social Justice (MA Global Cinema)

Recent teaching (not running 2026-27):

GER2036 Writers, Media and Society in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany)

GER4011 German Film up to 1945

GER4007 Misfits and Miscreants in Contemporary German/Austrian Fiction.

GER3052 Advanced Translation: German-English; English-German

• Articles

  • Ludden T. . Translation and Literature 2026, 35(1), 88-98.
  • Ludden TC. . Austrian Studies 2025, 32(1), 41-63.
  • Ludden T. . Oxford German Studies 2024, 53(3), 346-364.
  • Ludden T. . Translation and Literature 2024, 33(1), 130-136.
  • Ludden TC. . Austrian Studies 2022, 30, 113-131.
  • Ludden TC. . Austrian Studies 2021, 29, 68-85.
  • Ludden T. . German Life and Letters 2019, 72(4), 443-468.
  • Ludden T. . German Life and Letters 2019, 72(4), 399-426.
  • Ludden TC. . Edinburgh German Yearbook 2014, 8.
  • Ludden T. . German Life and Letters 2010, 63(1), 6-19.
  • Ludden T. . German Life and Letters (special issue on Memory and Contemporary Germany, eds. Mary Cosgrove and Anne Fuchs) 2006, 59(2), 249-265.
  • Ludden T. . Women: A Cultural Review 2006, 17(3), 341-354.
  • Ludden T. . New Readings 2004, 7.
  • Ludden T. . German Life and Letters 2004, 57(1), 69-90.

• Authored Book

  • Ludden T. . Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2006.

• Book Chapters

  • Ludden T. . In: Kate Averis, Margaret Littler, Godela Weiss-Sussex, ed. Contested Communities. Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe. Cambridge: Legenda, 2023, pp.139-157.
  • Ludden TC. . In: Frauke Matthes, Dora Osborne, Katya Kryolva, Myrto Aspioti, ed. Politics and Culture in Germany and Austria Today. New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2021, pp.34-57.
  • Ludden T. . In: Hipkins D; Taylor-Jones K, ed. Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017, pp.147-171.
  • Ludden T. . In: Petra Bagley, Francesca Calamita and Kathryn Robson, ed. Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity. London, UK: Peter Lang, 2017, pp.91-120.
  • Ludden T. . In: Shafi, M, ed. Approaches to Teaching Grass's The Tin Drum. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008, pp.185-197.
  • Ludden T. . In: Hipkins, D; Plain, G, ed. War-Torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II. Oxford, Berne etc: Peter Lang, 2007, pp.239-258.
  • Ludden T. . In: Bartel, H; Boa, E, ed. Pushing at Boundaries: Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp.41-55.
  • Ludden T. . In: Gruber, B; Preußer, H-P, ed. Weiblichkeit als politisches Programm? Sexualität, Macht und Mythos. Wuerzburg: Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2005, pp.153-166.
  • Ludden T. . In: Boa, E; Bartel, H, ed. Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words. Approaches to her Fiction, Poetry and Essays. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003, pp.72-87.

• Review

  • Ludden T. . Modern Language Review 2010, 105(1), 289-290.