Dr Sarah Pogoda
Senior Lecturer in German Studies
Affiliations
Links
- https://bellotograph.jimdo.com/
This is a website which documents one of my past projects at Sheffield. It included a Happening, a Panel debate with artists and academics and a workshop with artists and the public. The project dealt with commemoration practices for World War II in both, Germany and the UK. - https://lighthousesintofuturity.jimdofree.com/
This website documents my artistic research project on German writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge. An exhibition (August 2018) in Pontio, Bangor introduced his work to a Welsh audience for the first time.
Contact info
Originally from the Bergische Land (Nordrhein-Westfalen), I studied German literature, history and communication at the Freie Universität Berlin. As part of my undergraduate programme I went on an Erasmus exchange to the University of Vienna. After my Magister Artium I completed a doctorate in German literature. Having worked as a tutor for GfL (German as a Foreign Language) in the private sector in Berlin, I went to the University of Sheffield as DAAD-Lektorin in 2012. In autumn 2016 I came to Bangor University.
Teaching
At the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin I offered several modules on Political Studies and German Literature of the 20th century. As a DAAD-Lektor at the University of Sheffield (2012-2016) I taught modules on contemporary German culture and media, post-wall German art, film and performance, as well as modules on contemporary German literature. Alongside this research led teaching, I have been teaching German language at all levels (ab initio to near native competence) since 2011. At Bangor University I continue teaching German language at all levels, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in my field of research expertise, this includes e.g. the modules "Culture in Context" (LXE 1600); "The German Film" (LXG 2008), "Performing Germany" (LXG 3036), "German Avant-Garde" (LXM 4037) and "Critical Theory" (LXM 4001).
In my teaching, I prefer to integrate artistic practices, such as Happenings and Creative Writing exercises. I do not only understand this kind of pracice based learning as best practice in teaching, but first and foremost, I want to show my students that the revolution starts with ourselves and inside ourselves. It is this revolution of the self which I consider as the key experience of life, and of university life in particular. I was nominated for the Special Recognition Award.
Research
My current research interests are 20th and 21st century Avant Garde, with a focus on performance. Here, my core research considers the German film maker, theatre director and actionist artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010). In this regard I am also particularly interested in the political potential of art and how contemporary artist interfere in the public sphere.
I am also engaged in diversifying the critical thinking methods in academia by engageing with artistic research methods. In this context I co-founded the Avant Garde experimental art collective NWK, kindly supported by Deutsch-Walisische Freundschaft.
One further creative writing projects is a performative writing exercise in which both Welsh and German are explored in their shared knowledge about Fluxus art. For this purpose, I invented a new literary genre called "Verifiction". This critical method is informed by Avant Garde strategies and has shown suitable for uncovering hidden knowledge in language.
Further research interests lie in the interrelations of literature and architecture and, more generally, in the history, culture, politics and literature of post-1945 Germany, including the former GDR. In my doctoral thesis I look at metaphors of building and dwelling in post-war and contemporary German literature and culture. In addition I am interested in contemporary German literature in general.
- 2019
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Treat Art with Dada
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
8 Jun 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Institutional Critique in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
2 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Sich einrichten. Zur Poetik und Semiotik des Wohnens seit 1850
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
11 Apr 2019 → 13 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Moving Stories von Gwynedd and Anglesey
Sarah Pogoda (Advisor)
28 Jan 2019 → 30 Jun 2019Activity: Other
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The Transformative Power of Performance
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
24 Jan 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
- 2018
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Public Engagement as Social Structure - Research as Art in Public Engagement
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
25 Oct 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Alexander Kluge Lighthouses into Futurity
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
29 Aug 2018 → 12 Sept 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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Arbeit am Bild Christoph Schlingensief und die Tradition
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
18 May 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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May 68 Film Weekend
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
6 May 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Die Wunde Woyzeck. Müller lesen!
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
20 Jan 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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XIV. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG)
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
1 Jan 2018 → 2 Aug 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
- 2017
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Communicating the complexities of climate change
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
1 Dec 2017 → 31 Aug 2018Activity: Other
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WiGS - Women in German Studies (External organisation)
Sarah Pogoda (Member)
1 Jun 2017 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Welsh Crucible
Sarah Pogoda (Participant)
25 May 2017 → 14 Jul 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Christoph Schlingensief and the Avant-Garde
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
26 Apr 2017Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde (Event)
Sarah Pogoda (Editorial board member)
1 Feb 2017 → 31 Dec 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Fink Verlag (Publisher)
Sarah Pogoda (Editorial board member)
21 Jan 2017 → 30 Sept 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
- 2016
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Christoph Schlingensiefs Politik der Autonomie
Sarah Pogoda (Speaker)
5 May 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde
Sarah Pogoda (Organiser)
1 Feb 2016 → 4 Feb 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
- 2015
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The Bellotograph Project
Sarah Pogoda (Contributor)
8 May 2015 → 12 May 2015Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition