Professor Chloe Paver

My research centres on German and Austrian history museums, considering the museum as one a range of social practices for dealing with Germany's fraught 20th century. After a decade working on the material culture that is put on display in these museums, leading to the monograph Exhibiting the Nazi Past, I am currently pursuing work on the discourses that surround history museums. This includes the speeches that are given at the opening ceremonies of exhibitions, the use of 'leichte Sprache' or simple language to make museums accessible to people with learning disabilities, discourses of Europe in the museum, and translation for museums.

I teach modules relating directly to my research questions (in particular ‘Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria’) but I also teach more widely across various eras of German literature and film. I have considerable experience of teaching in the MA Translation programme and have supervised many PhD and masters dissertations.

Research supervision:

Postgraduate Supervision since 2001

• PhD, '21st-Century Holocaust Memorials and Theories of Transnational Memory', Lydia Souter, 2018-2023. Funded by the University of Exeter. As second supervisor.
• PhD, 'Self-Translation of Mathematical Texts in Seventeenth-Century France: The Cases of Pascal, Mersenne and Herigone', Sean Morris, 2017-21. Funded by the University of Exeter. As second supervisor.
• PhD, ‘The Aestheticization of Green Ideas in German Literature', Simon Meacher, 1999-2003, 2 years' University of Exeter funding, one year's AHRB funding.
• PhD, ‘Narratives of Change and Continuity: Theatre Institutions in East Berlin and Brandenburg in the Transition to the New Germany', Elizabeth Catling, 2000-2005, funded by the University of Exeter.
• PhD, ‘Erfundene Welten, Modelle der Wirklichkeit. Eine hermeneutisch-rezeptionsästhetische Analyse von Christoph Ransmayrs Romanen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von „Morbus Kitahara"', Markus Spitz, 2000-2005, funded by the University of Exeter.
• PhD, ‘Academic and Cultural Institutions in the Fiction of the GDR and the New Germany', Morven Creagh, 2004-2008, AHRC-funded.

Prof Paver has also supervised 28 MA theses on various aspects of post-1945 German literature and culture, and in German translation studies.