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Dr Sheila Dickson

Senior Lecturer in German

Sheila.Dickson@glasgow.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/sheiladickson/

Biography

Sheila Dickson is Programme Director for German and Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. She previously worked at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (1989-1994). She is currently working on a digital edition of Karl Philipp Moritz’s Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde with Christof Wingertszahn.

Research and Teaching Interests

Narratives of illness (literary and medical case histories) in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods in Germany and Great Britain. Edition of first German journal of psychology, Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde (1783-93).

Keywords:

• Case histories
• Enlightenment and Romanticism
• History of medicine
• Illness narratives

Projects:

• Digital Critical Edition of Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde

Teaching Materials:

• Course: European Narratives of Illness: Medical and Literary Case Histories 1783-1933 (SMLC, PGT)

Units:

• College of Arts, School of Modern Languages and Cultures