Dr Geoffrey Plow

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Geoffrey Plow is an independent researcher. He completed his first degree, in Modern and Medieval Languages, at the University of Cambridge and received his PhD from Lancaster University. He formerly taught German, French and English at secondary-school level. He is the author of Irmtraud Morgner: Adventures in Knowledge, 1959-1974 (Peter Lang, 2006) as well as of articles on narrative literature (Thomas Bernhard, Hans Fallada, Martin Walser). He has also published articles on literature teaching pedagogy, focusing here on Bertolt Brecht (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Das Versprechen), Max Frisch (Andorra), Judith Hermann (Sommerhaus, später), Jana Hensel (Zonenkinder) and German film (Good Bye Lenin!). In 2021, he contributed two videos to the Cambridge Collaborative 'A'- level Resources for Languages (CCARL) series, on Max Frisch and Jana Hensel respectively.