Research Interests
Literature in GermanDr Simon Walsh
Lecturer
School of Humanities
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Simon Walsh has taught at all levels of the German Studies Program at Adelaide. He received his PhD in German Studies in 2015 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and also holds an MSc. in Theoretical and Historical Psychology from the University of Calgary. His ongoing research concentrates on two strands: creative practice among German-speaking internees in wartime Australia; and the social and cultural role of music in twentieth-century Austrian and German literature.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - ongoing | Lecturer | University of Adelaide |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Adelaide | Australia | BA Hons | |
| University of Calgary | Canada | MSc, Psychology | |
| University of Michigan | United States | PhD, German |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Humphrey, A., & Walsh, S. (2024). Lost Precursor to Autobiographical Comics, Kangarooland (ca. 1918–1919), Illuminates Transnational Creativity in Australia's WWI Internment Camps. Journal of Australian Studies, 48(2), 209-229. |
| 2021 | Humphrey, A., & Walsh, S. (2021). The Border Separating Us: Autobiographical comics of an Australian World War I internment camp. International Journal of Comic Art, 23(1), 254-270. |
| 2018 | Walsh, S. T. (2018). Musical Biographies: The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature. BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY, 41(1), 146-152. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Walsh, S., & Humphrey, A. (2025). Paper Memories: Reconstructing Internment Camp Life from Autographic Comics and Drawings of World War I & World War II. In J. Schmid, & C. Lerg (Eds.), HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics. |
| 2025 | Walsh, S. (2025). Surviving, resisting and remembering through creative practice: Cartoons by German-speaking internees in wartime Australia. In P. Hoffmannová, & K. Kosová (Eds.), Malach Center for Visual History on Its 15th Anniversary Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2025. |
| 2025 | Walsh, S. (2025). Surviving, resisting and remembering through creative practice: Cartoons by German-speaking internees in wartime Australia. In P. Hoffmannová, & K. Kosová (Eds.), Malach Center for Visual History on Its 15th Anniversary Compendium of Papers of the Prague Visual History and Digital Humanities Conference 2025. |
| 2015 | Walsh, S. (2015). Not just "waltzing around": Music in Wiener Passion [Vienna Passion]. In V. Kling, & S. Mclary (Eds.), Winning Back Lost Territory The Writing of Lilian Faschinger. |
| 2014 | Walsh, S. (2014). "Der unglückliche Mann": Reflections on Masculinity in Arnold Schoenberg's Die glückliche Hand. In B. Hindinger, & E. Saletta (Eds.), Der musikalisch modellierte Mann Interkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Männlichkeitsstudien zur Oper und Literatur des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts (pp. 352-370). |
| 2012 | Walsh, S. (2012). Das Problem liegt auch im Was: Thomas Bernhards Alte Meister im Spiegel des Diskurses von Nachkriegsösterreich als "Land der Musik". In J. Lughofer (Ed.), Thomas Bernhard Gesellschaftliche und politische Bedeutung der Literatur (pp. 103-114). |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Supporting Personalisation through Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots in Flipped German Classrooms: A Cross-National Study in China and Australia. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Yuran Wang |
| 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Supporting Personalisation through Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots in Flipped German Classrooms: A Cross-National Study in China and Australia. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Yuran Wang |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2020 | Co-Supervisor | Narratives of Child Abduction in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe Volume 1: Novella Volume 2: Exegesis |
Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mrs Anj Foley |
| 2018 - 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Learning German in English speaking tertiary contexts: Identity, social strategies and language use | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Mary Grace Quigley |
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