Dr Leith Passmore

BA (Hons), PhD W.Aust.

Associate Lecturer (German Studies)

Arts Building, Room 2.49
Ph. (+61 8) 6488-2177
Fax. (+61 8) 6488-1182
Email: leith@arts.uwa.edu.au

Qualifications:
2009: PhD (German Studies), The University of Western Australia

2005: Bachelor of Arts (German Studies) (First Class Honours), The University of Western Australia

2004: Bachelor of Economics (Economics), The University of Western Australia


Research Projects:
Anticipated Phd Thesis – March 2009, The University of Western Australia (History/European Languages and Studies)
Title: ‘ulrike meinhof was here gewesen’. Performing Terrorism: A Case Study of Ulrike Meinhof.


Prizes, Awards and Grants:
2008: Humanities Postgraduate Publishing Grant.

2008: Learning & Teaching Performance Fund 2008 Competitive Grant: Collaborative Development between Asian and European Languages to Introduce a Graduate Programme of Translation and Interpretation in 2010.

2008: Humanities Postgraduate Publishing Grant.

2007: UWA Travel Award.

2006: Australian Postgraduate Award.

2005: DAAD support for academic exchange to Koblenz University, Germany.

2005: J.M. Wolff Prize for German Honours (UWA).

2004: DAAD Scholarship to attend a six-week German Studies course at the University of Essen, Germany.


Publications:
2009: ‘The Art of Hunger: Self-Starvation in the Red Army Faction’, German History, 27(1), 2009, pp. 32-59.

2007: ‘Schiller’s Children: Ulrike Meinhof and Romantic Terrorism’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 2007, pp. 15-25.


Other Academic Activities:
2008: Community outreach: presented the four week course Terrorism and the Media: The Baader Meinhof example.
2006-2008: Submissions Editor on volumes 13 (2007) and 14 (2008) of Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies.