Emeritus Fellow in German
Modern Languages (German)
Emeritus fellow
It’s been a great privilege to have taught at Murray Edwards College. The College provides the ideal environment for teaching and research and fosters the highest academic standards in a friendly, informal, warm and supportive atmosphere across all disciplines.
Degrees and Honours
1975 1978 Ph.D., University of Cambridge
1970-1974 B.A. (Honours German, 1st Class), University of Western Australia
Awards and Prizes
2013 Fritz Wiedemann Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
1994, 1987 Research Grants from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange)
1975 Donald Donaldson Scholarship, Corpus Christi College Cambridge
1974 Goethe Prize for German awarded by German Embassy, Melbourne
1972 Convocation Prize for ‘best all-round achievement in the Faculty of Arts’, University of Western Australia
Research Interests
German drama from the Enlightenment to the present day; Anglo-German literary relations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the role of translation in cultural transfer between England and Germany in the eighteenth century.
Biography
2018 Fellow Emeritus, Murray Edwards College
1984-2018 Fellow in German, Murray Edwards College
1981-1984 Lecturer in German, University of Leeds
1978-1981 Tutorial Assistant, Department of German, University of Leicester
1975-1978 PhD, University of Cambridge
1970-1975 BA Hons, University of Western Australia
Recent Publications
Books
- Don Carlos Infante of Spain: a dramatic poem by Friedrich Schiller; translation and notes to the text by Flora Kimmich; introduction by John Guthrie. Open Book Publishers, 2018.
Articles
- John Guthrie, ‘Bodmers Miltonübersetzungen’. In: Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit / Early Modern Translation Cultures, ed. Jörg Wesche et al, Stuttgart: Metzler, forthcoming.
- John Guthrie, ‘Karl Moors Satanische Rebellion’. In: Schillers Theaterpraxis, ed. Peter-André Alt and Stefanie Hundehege. Berlin: de Gruyter 2020.
- John Guthrie, ‘Milton in Germany. Translation and Creative Response’. In: Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters. Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit, ed. Michael Wood and Sandro Jung. Bethlehem: Lehigh UP 2019.
- John Guthrie, ‘Music, Text and Stage: Peter Stein’s Production of Goethe’s Faust’. In: Music in Goethe's Faust: Goethe's Faust in Music ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press 2017.
- John Guthrie, ‘Johann Joachim Christoph Bode as Translator of The World’. In: Johann Joachim Christoph Bode Studien zu Leben und Werk’, ed. Cord-Friedrich Berghahn, Gerd Biegel and Till Kinzel. Heidelberg: Winter 2017.
- John Guthrie: ‘Lenz, Pope and Satire.’ In: Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756–1832 ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016.
- ‘Schubarts Ästhetik des Dramas. Ein Betirag zur Shakespeare-Rezeption im Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts’. In: C. F. D. Schubart. Das Werk. Ed. Barbara Potthast and Stefan Knödler, Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.
Reviews
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. By Jeremy Adler. [Critical Lives.] London: Reaktion Books, 2020. In: Journal of European Studies 51 (2021).
- Lebendiger Abglanz: Goethes Italien-Projekt als Kulturanalyse. By Claudia Keller. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018. In: Journal of European Studies 49 (2019).
- Johann Arnold Ebert. Dichtung, Übersetzung und Kulturtransfer im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, ed. Cord-Friedrich Berghahn, Gerd Biegel and Till Kinzel. Germanisch-Romanische Monatschrift, Beiheft 72 (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016). In: Angermion 2016.
- Luise Gottsched, ‘Der Lockenraub’. Alexander Pope, ‘The Rape of the Lock’. Ed. by Hilary Brown. (MHRA European Translations, 2) London: MHRA. 2014. In: MLR 111 (2016).
- Johann Joachim Eschenburg. Kleine Geschichte des Romans von der Antike bis zur Aufklärung, ed. Till Kinzel. In: Germanische-Romanische Monatsschrift 65 (2015).