Dr Sabine Egger

Sabine Egger (MA, Cologne; PhD, Humboldt University of Berlin) is a Lecturer in German Studies at Mary Immaculate College/MIC, University of Limerick. She has widely published on memory, place, literature and performance, questions of identity/alterity and transnationalism in German-language literature and culture, with a specific interest in developments after 1945 and 1989. Her current research looks at ideas of "East" and "West" within and beyond Europe in contemporary literature and different media, with a focus on technological discourses and the aesthetics of space and movement across cultural, political, genre and media boundaries. Publications include her monograph on Erinnerung an den „europäischen Osten“ in der Lyrik Johannes Bobrowskis (2009), co-edited journal issues and books on transit spaces and temporality, such as Polish-Irish Encounters in the New and Old Europe (2011) and Sarmatia – Germania Slavica – Central Europe: From the Borderland in the East … to a Border Aesthetics (2020). Further edited volumes on Cultural/Literary Translators (2015) and Connections in Motion: Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture (2019) explore movement across language and physical boundaries in different media and art forms. She is co-founder and Joint Director of the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies (MIC) and member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee on Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication (2022-26). She is on the Advisory Board of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik/GiG, the International Christa-Wolf-Centre (Wroclaw), the Centre for Studies in Otherness and Alterity (Aarhus) and of CONVIVIUM (. From 2011-2015 she was joint chair of the German Studies Association of Ireland/GSAI.

Dr. Egger has produced programmes and written articles for public media, including Deutsche Welle, WDR Radio, WDR Television, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Opus. Kulturmagazin, and The European. She has been academic advisor for RTE radio programmes and has professional experience in translation.

From 2015 to 2017 she was MPI on the national project "DigiLanguages.ie - Enhancing Digital Literacies for Language Teaching and Learning" (UL, NUIG, DCU, MIC, DIT, LIT), with a focus on “Transitions and Contexts”. The project was funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning and is part of the government's implementation plan of  Languages Connect: Ireland's Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017-2026.

She has supervised and examined MAs and PhDs on a range of topics.