Jane Wilkinson
jane wilkinson

Dr Jane Wilkinson

Lecturer

 0131 455 4550

  J.Wilkinson@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I joined the Tourism and Languages group within the Business School at Edinburgh Napier University as Lecturer in Languages and Intercultural Communication (German) in January 2019 and became Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) in Languages and Intercultural Communication in August 2019. I previously worked at the universities of Leeds, Aberystwyth and Lancaster after completing a PhD in German Studies at the University of Glasgow.

My research interests and expertise lie in the broad areas of border studies, migration and intercultural communication. My current research project, 'Representations of Migration and 'Post-Migration' in Recent German-Language Drama', explores thematic and aesthetic responses to migration to and settlement in (West) Germany and Austria from the 1960s to the current day. Using theories of borders and hospitality, I look at dramatic and theatrical engagement with both the 'guest worker' era of temporary labour migration in the 1960s and 1970s, which led to the long-term settlement of many people from southern Europe and north Africa, and the more recent arrival of refugees from Africa and the Middle East. I am a member of Edinburgh Napier's Mobilities and Movement Research Network (MMRN).

I recently published a chapter on 'The Intercultural Speaker' for the 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication, edited by Jane Jackson (2020).

I am currently supervising 3 PhD students working on interculturality, mindfulness and migration; translation markets in the UK and the EU; and language planning in ethnic minority areas (see postgrad tab for details of their projects).

I lead and teach on postgraduate modules in intercultural communication and on undergraduate modules in intercultural communication, translation and German language.

I am a fellow of the HEA.

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Research Areas

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Interculturality in a Precarious Future

 

Editorial Activity

  • Co-editor with John O'Regan and Mike Robinson of 'Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World' - special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication (2011) and book version (2014)
  • Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow of the HEA

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Reviewer of Grant Proposals for the FNR - Luxembourg National Research Fund
  • Reviewer of Grant Proposals for the GACR - Czech Science Foundation

 

Invited Speaker

  • 'Rewriting(s) in Post-Migrant Theatre' - talk at symposium on 'Post-Migrant Theatre in / from Germany' at the University of Edinburgh

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Member of the Association of Borderland Studies
  • Member of Women in German Studies
  • Member of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural communication

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • External Examiner for PhD 'Representations of Germany and its people in Maltese GFL learning contexts', George Cremona, Institute of Education, University College London

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer for Routledge Handbooks Series
  • Reviewer for Journal of Multicultural Discourses
  • Occasional Reviewer for the German Quarterly
  • Occasional Reviewer for the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
  • Regular Reviewer for the Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication

 

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Building Literary Bridges Across the Oder

Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2009)
Building Literary Bridges Across the Oder. Seminar, 45(3), 316-335. https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.45.3.316

The 'Border Crosser' as 'Intercultural Speaker'?

Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2009, June)
The 'Border Crosser' as 'Intercultural Speaker'?. Paper presented at 'The Intercultural Speaker' - Symposium of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication

Theatrical Negotiations of the German-Polish Border

Presentation / Conference
Wilkinson, J. (2008, September)
Theatrical Negotiations of the German-Polish Border. Paper presented at Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders: The 2008 European Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies

Performing the Local and the Global: The Theatre Festivals of Lake Constance

Book
Wilkinson, J. (2007)
Performing the Local and the Global: The Theatre Festivals of Lake Constance. Peter Lang
This book explores the interplay between global and local influences in theatre festivals in the German-speaking border region around Lake Constance. Whilst opening up a fasci...

Writing Home: Martin Walser's Ein fliehendes Pferd as Anti-Tourist Literature

Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2006)
Writing Home: Martin Walser's Ein fliehendes Pferd as Anti-Tourist Literature. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 4(3), 177-193. https://doi.org/10.2167/jtcc066.0
This paper examines the novella Ein fliehendes Pferd (A Runaway Horse) by Lake Constance author Martin Walser as ‘anti-tourist literature’. The popularity of Lake Constance as...

The Place of the European Foreigner in Contemporary German Drama

Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2006)
The Place of the European Foreigner in Contemporary German Drama. Third Text, 20(6), 755-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528820601072924

Staging 'Swissness': Inter- and Intracultural Theatre Translation

Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2005)
Staging 'Swissness': Inter- and Intracultural Theatre Translation. Language and Intercultural Communication, 5(1), 72-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708470508668884
This paper examines the choice to translate plays from ‘Hochdeutsch’ (the standard form of the German language) into local dialect in German-speaking Switzerland. It first loo...

Passports and the German Border: Who Holds the Key to the Door?

Book Chapter
Wilkinson, J. (2002)
Passports and the German Border: Who Holds the Key to the Door?. In Contemporary German Cultural Studies, 17-39. Arnold

Current Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Jade Douglas: Reclaiming the Local and Person(al) in Memory: The Articulation of Traumatic Legacies in Minority German-Language Literature
  • Richard Boffey: 'Fixpünkte des "antitotalitären Konsenses"? The Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen memorials, Germany's "double past", and cultural memory in the Berlin Republic.’
  • Anja Henebury: ‘Engagement and authenticity: Poetics and politics in the late works of Martin Walser and Gunter Grass’