Susann Liebich
Adjunct Research Fellow
Transcultural Studies
Heidelberg University
Germany
Biography
Susann Liebich joined the Cluster's project MC 12 "Floating Spaces" in December 2014. Before coming to Heidelberg, she held postdoctoral research fellowships at James Cook University, Townsville, and Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests include book history and the history of reading, British imperial history, especially New Zealand and Australian history, and maritime history. At the Cluster, Susann will be working on a project exploring reading and writing practices at sea, from nineteenth-century immigrants, to soldiers on troopships during WW1, to leisure travellers on cruise liners in the twentieth century. She also works on a collaborative project (with Dr Victoria Kuttainen and Dr Sarah Galletly, JCU) on representations of sea travel across the Pacific in Australian and New Zealand popular magazines between 1920 and 1940. Projects MC12 Floating Spaces MC12.1 Ships' Newspapers
Research Interest
History and Psychology
Publications
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with Victoria Kuttainen, “Worldly Tastes: Mobility and the Geographical Imaginaries of Interwar Australian Magazines.†Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 7, no. 1 (2017): 52-69.
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"Reading as War Effort: The National Home Reading Union during the First World War." First World War Studies 6, no. 3 (2015): 219-238.
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with Victoria Kuttainen, "Introduction: Print Culture, Mobility and the Pacific, 1920-1950." Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 7, no. 1 (2017): 26-33.
