Dr Annja Neumann

• Modern German and comparative literature
• Modern poetry and poetics after 1945 (especially Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs)
• Methodologies in literary criticism
• Literature and Medicine (especially Arthur Schnitzler)
• Digital Humanities
• Digital Health Humanities
• Editorial theory and practice

Recent research projects:

• Medical Topographies in Arthur Schnitzler’s plays (book project)
• Digital Critical Edition of Middle-Period Works by Arthur Schnitzler, for further details, please see the Arthur Schnitzler digital website.
• Anglo-German Poetics of Science (ongoing)

PhD, Queen Mary, University of London

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice (awarded in November 2014)

2020
Co-convenor of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network [Could you put the Hyperlink https://www.performance.group.cam.ac.uk  on “Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network”]

2019
Production and Co-direction of the first public play to be staged in the Cambridge University Library, Arthur Schnitzler’s grotesque comedy The Great Wurstel [please link “first public play” to https://www.cam.ac.uk/SchnitzlerPlay]

2019
Official launch of the digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s middle and late period works to be hosted by the Cambridge University Library

2018
Presentation of the Schnitzler Spheres at the International Placing Schnitzler conference in London in collaboration with project leader Frederick Baker and Andrew Webber, 19 September 2018.

2018
Lead editor for the first module of the digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Puppet plays. Release of first module of Marionetten in their beta version. For more information about the first releases see The Cambridge University Library Press Release

2017
‘The Poetics of Personhood’ A Cross-disciplinary workshop at Magdalene College, 22 September.

2017
Teaching ‘Critical Theory and Practice’ to students from Magdalene College & Jesus College (all levels) in collaboration with Dr Libe Garcia Zarranz and poet in residence Peter Hughes, Lent Term 2017.

2016
Literary Consultant and producer of performance of Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre Cambridge in collaboration with clinical anatomist Dr Cecilia Brassett as part of the Festival of Ideas, 28-29 October (see right).

2014-2017
Co-director and founding-member of the Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network.

• Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
• British Society for Literature and Science
• Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network
• Cambridge Digital Humanities
• Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network
• Deutscher Hochschulverband
• Modern Language Association of America
• The Northern Network for Medical Humanities
• Think German Network

‘Schnitzler’s Anatomy Lesson: Medical Topographies in Professor Bernhardi’, Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin, Bd. 8, ed. by Christa Janson and Florian Steger (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016), pp. 31-60.

'Verbindungslinien: Nelly Sachs, Emily Dickinson und Paul Celan', Eine Schwester Kafkas? Nelly Sachs im Kontext, ed. by Florian Strob and Charlie Louth (Heidelberg: Winter 2014), pp. 179-200.

Books / Scholarly Editions

Arthur Schnitzler, Marionetten. Ed. by Annja Neumann with Gregor Babelotzky, Judith Beniston, Kaltërina Latifi, Robert Vilain, Andrew Webber. In: Arthur Schnitzler digital (Werke 1905 bis 1931). Ed. by Wolfgang Lukas, Michael Scheffel, Andrew Webber, Judith Beniston.

Durchkreuzte Zeit. Zur ästhetischen Temporalität der späten Gedichte von Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan (Heidelberg: Winter, 2013).