Professur Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft

Dr. Mario Ebest, Lehrbeauftragter

Kontakt:

Obere Karolinenstr. 8, Raum 02.03

D-96049 Bamberg

Sprechstunden nach Vereinbarung.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

- internal colonies
- nationalism and national identities
- postcolonialism
- reception of British and Irish literatures in the GDR
- Scottish literature and culture
- trauma and memory (Holocaust)

Lehrveranstaltungen

- British Newspapers / narratives
- Postmodernism
- Scottish culture and literature
- Social and Socialist Realism
- The Angry Young Men
- Working-Class Literature

Publikationen

1 Articles and Essays

"Alan Sillitoe – More than “Angry” and Allegedly Paving the Way for the Revolution: On the Academic (Re)interpretation of the Author’s Novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in the GDR." In: The Reception of British and Irish Literatures in the German Democratic Republic: Tendencies in Universities, Schools, Literary Scenes, Publishing, and Censoring. Eds. Jochen Schwend and Mario Ebest. Baden-Baden: Tectum, [to be published in] 2026.

“Coming to Terms with the Agony of the Highland Clearances – or Not? An Analysis of Two Novels from the Point of View of Traumatisation.” In: Facets of Scottish Identity. Eds. Izabela Szymanska and Aniela Korzeniowska. Warsaw: Semper, 2013. 73–79.

“Displacement as an Exit Strategy: Crime and Punishment in Mackay Brown's Greenvoe.” In: Crime, Punishment and the Scots. Eds. Jean Berton and Bill Findlay. Besancon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019. 265-279.

"Produced with Great Care and Still Relevant: Volk und Welt’s Publication of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song." In: The Reception of British and Irish Literatures in the German Democratic Republic: Tendencies in Universities, Schools, Literary Scenes, Publishing, and Censoring. Eds. Jochen Schwend and Mario Ebest. Baden-Baden: Tectum, [to be published in] 2026.

“Re-Telling and Going Beyond: A Critical Examination of Two Novels and Their Perspectives on the Traumatic Impact of the Highland Clearances.” In: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7 [Papers from the Seventh Conference of Scottish Gaelic Studies, Glasgow 2012]. Eds. Sheila M. Kidd, Thomas Owen Clancy and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh. Glasgow: Roinn na Ceiltis & na Gàidhlig University of Glasgow, 2020. 133-148.

“Unmuting the Subaltern through Linguistic Hybridisation: Gaelicisations and Their Functionality in Trauma-Related Novels by Fionn Mac Colla and Neil M. Gunn.” Victoriographies vol. 9, issue 1 (2019). 19-40.

2 Editorship

Schwend, Jochen and Mario Ebest, eds. The Reception of British and Irish Literatures in the German Democratic Republic: Tendencies in Universities, Schools, Literary Scenes, Publishing, and Censoring. Baden-Baden: Tectum, [to be published in] 2026.

3 Monograph

Die traumatische Vertreibung der subalternen Hochländer im Rahmen der Highland Clearances. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016.

Review: Schirmer, Matthias and Irina Vogt. In: Trauma und Gewalt 1 (2017). 75.

4 Poster

“Coping with Survival Guilt: An Analysis of a Poetical Work on the Displacement Trauma of the Highland Clearances.” Jahrestagung der DeGPT. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT). Messe Dresden, Dresden. 1–3 March 2018. Poster presentation. [Poster available upon email request: MarioEbest@freenet.de].

Abstract: Trauma und Gewalt: 20. Jahrestagung der DeGPT: Abstractband. Eds. Julia Schellong and Silke Birgitta Gahleitner (2018). 199.

5 Reviews

Review of Perceptions and Perspectives: Exploring Connections between Ireland and the GDR. Eds. Gisela Holfter, Deirdre Byrnes, and Jean Conacher. In: Anglistik vol. 31, issue 2 (summer 2020). 176-178.

Review of A History of Irish Working-Class Writing. Ed. Michael Pierse. In: Anglistik vol. 30, issue 3 (winter 2019): 184-186.