Academics
MARTHA WÖRSCHING, Staatsexamen MA
Lecturer in German Email M.M.Worsching@lboro.ac.uk |
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Biography
I am Lecturer in German and European Studies. My first degree was a Staatsexamen in Anglistik and Germanistik, followed by an MA at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. I joined the Department as a DAAD lecturer and worked there for three years, after which I spent some time as research assistant at Ealing College, before returning to Loughborough as a lecturer.
My main teaching areas have included modern German and European studies, with an emphasis on media and gender studies as well as German language. My present teaching responsibilities include German language and area studies as well as core seminars on the study of politics; I also teach a final year option on Gender in Europe.
I have been the tutor for student exchanges with German universities and coordinator for English Language Assistantships for many years. At the moment, I am tutor for the year abroad for all students in the department as well as the ERAMUS coordinator.
My main research interests include cultural, media and gender studies and more recently also youth and sports studies.
I have been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and its reviews editor for many years. I have edited a special issue of this journal on ‘Women in East and West’, and more recently I co-edited – with Jeremy Leaman – another special issue on ‘Youth Cultures in Europe’.
Detailed searchable list of publications.
Recent Publications
¿Desafección y uniformidad? Participación política juvenil en el Reino Unido, (‘Making a Difference? Political Participation of Young People in the UK’) in Revista de estudios de juventud [Spanish Journal on Youth Studies], no. 81, June 2008, pp. 95-112
“Gender and images of nature and sport in British and German news magazines: the global and the national in images of advertising”, in International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2009, pp. 217-232
“Gender and Sport in the German Quality Press: The Global and the Domestic in Editorial and Advertising”, in: Linda K. Fuller, Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media. Contexts of Violence (Bern, Frankfurt, New York: Peter Lang 2009) pp. 201-213
Youth in Contemporary Europe, edited by Jeremy Leaman and Martha Wörsching, Routledge 2010
“Making a Difference? Political Participation of Young People in the UK”, in Leaman, J. and Wörsching, M. (eds) Youth in Contemporary Europe, Routledge 2010, pp. 249-267
“Werbung in Jugendzeitschriften – Einübung in Geschlechterdifferenzen?“, in: German as a Foreign Language, 2002, Vol. 2, On-line Journal, www.gfl-journal.de
‘Gender, Sport and Nature in Magazine Advertising – DER SPIEGEL and DAV-PANORAMA’, in: Herrmann Rasche and Christiane Schönfeld (Eds.) Denkbilder: Festschrift für Eoin Bourke (Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004) pp. 346-356
“Masculinities, Sport and National Identity in German Quality Print Media”, in: Elzbieta H. Oleksy and Joanna Rydzewska (Eds.) Representing Gender in Cultures (Peter Lang, Bern, Frankfurt, New York, 2004), pp. 181-190
“Race to the Top: Masculinity, Sport, and Nature in German Magazine Advertising”, In: Men and Masculinities, Sage, Vol. 10, No. 2, Oct. 2007, pp. 197-221