Language / Culture / Education Publications
Michaela Schrage-Früh
Schrage-Früh, Michaela. 2026. A Cultural History of Sleep and Dreaming in the Modern Age. 1 ed. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Schrage-Früh, Michaela. 2025. Othering the Self: The Non-Human in Paula Ludwig's Dream Texts. “A Dream, What Else?” Contributions on the Literary, Cultural and Media History of Dreams. Dickson, S. & Pusse, T.-K. (eds.). Königshausen und Neumann, p. 237-252.
Mary Masterson
Masterson, M. (2026). Beyond fact-focused instruction: Advancing classroom practice in global citizenship education. In Finkbeiner, C., Rahat, Z., & Buch, B. (Eds.), Redirecting the flow of knowledge across languages and cultures: Autobiographical teaching and literacy pedagogies. Emerald Group Publishing, USA. DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80686-047-020261009
Masterson, M. eTwinning National Award 2025 for the Initial Teacher Education eTwinning Project titled ‘3 Steps AI in the Classrooms’ (Building Capacity through European Collaboration and Exchange).
Masterson, M. eTwinning Citizenship Education Thematic Prize 2025 for the project ‘Perspectives in Practice: A European Dialogue for Future Teachers on Policy and Practice’. The theme was Citizenship.
Masterson, M. Developed a research-informed, interactive online CPD tutorial on AI for inclusive learning for the European School Education Platform (2026), an initiative of the European Commission, aimed at supporting teacher professional learning across diverse European education systems: https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/en/what-if-ai-could-transform-every-learners-personal-ally?pk_campaign=Esep_etwinning_meta&pk_keyword=Tutorial
The tutorial operationalises European policy priorities in AI, inclusion, and digital education, demonstrating how these agendas can be enacted in classroom practice across member states.
Zhaoyin Zhang
Zhang, Z & Xiang, S. 2025. Reconstructing WWII Trauma Memory of Germans Through COTS C‑RPG Gameplay: A Theoretical Proposal Using Battlefield V: The Last Tiger. Conference on Cultural Memory – Memory Culture(s): Europe’s Past, Present and Future, Centre for European Studies, University of Limerick.
Jean Conacher
Conacher, JE (2017) 'Adapting Hein’s 'Willenbrock': Andreas Dresen and the legacy of the GDR ‘ensemble’ tradition' In: Cronin, B; MagShamhráin, R.; Preuschoff, N (eds). Adaptation as a Collaborative Art – Process and Practice. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
Conacher, JE (2017) 'Women at work: Reflections on Social Identity and the Private Self in 'Die Polizistin' (2000), 'Willenbrock' (2005) and 'Steigerlied' (2013)' In: Preece, JE;Hodgins, N (eds). Andreas Dresen. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Conacher, JE (2016) 'Transformation and Education in GDR Youth Literature: A Script Theory Approach'. International Research in Children's Literature, 9 (1):65-82.
Conacher, JE (2016) 'Language as gate-keeper of quality? Exploring Austria's English-only policy for national research funding' In: Earls, CW (eds). Multilingualism and English in Twenty-First-Century Europe. Bern: Peter Lang.
Joachim Fischer
Uí Chíobháin, Kate, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, Joachim Fischer (2026). Eachtraí san Eoraip: scríbhneoireacht taistil i nGaeilge faoin Eoraip ó thús an fhichiú céad go nuige seo arna chur in eagar ag. Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim.
Where is Europe in Irish Education: A Plaidoyer for a Revival of European Studies in Irish Schools after Brexit. In: Paul Carmichael, Gisela Holfter (eds), Unions, Break-Ups and Special Relationships: Aspects of Irish-German-UK Relations. Irish-German Studies 15. Trier: WVT, 2022, 113-134
Irish Writers’ Responses to the Questionnaire “The European Union and its Citizens, Writers and Artists”: An Introduction. Kaleidoscope II: Europe in Ireland. https://kaleidoscope2.efacis.eu/content/introduction [2022]
Adorno and Ardnacrusha: Fascism, Nationalism and Technology in Reinhold Zickel’s Shannon Scheme Novel Strom (1940). Germanistik in Ireland: Jahrbuch der/Yearbook of the German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI). Vol 16 (2021). Konstanz: Hartung Gorre, 2021, 201-214
Irish-German Relations within the European Union: Cultural and Language Aspects. In: Gisela Holfter (ed.), Irish-German Diplomatic Relations (1929-2019). Trier: WVT, 2020, 61-71
(with Éamon Ó Ciosáin), Irish-language Literature in Europe: A Survey of Translations and Reception Patterns in Continental Countries. In. Gisela Holfter and Bettina Migge (eds), Ireland in the European Eye. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2019, 224-255
With E. Ó Ciosáin. Irish-language literature in Europe: a survey of translations and receptions patterns in continental countries. In G. Holfter and B. Migge (eds), Ireland in the European Eye. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2018, 224-255
The GDR through Irish Eyes: Nationalism and Patriotism in Kevin Brophy’s East German Novel. In: G. Holfter, D. Byrnes, J. E. Conacher (eds), Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR. (Irish-German Studies 11.) Trier: WVT, 2019, 73-86
On the Specificity of Irish Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Maria Frances Dickson's Journeys to the Continent and Kilkee. In: M. Corporaal and C. Morin (eds), Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 51-77
Barrie Wharton
Wharton, Barrie, 2016, Saving Spain; Building Spaniards-Mapping Morality in Contemporary Spanish Narrative in Walsh, Anne, ed. Telling Tales; Storytelling in Contemporary Spanish Narrative, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.
