Dr Benjamin Schaper

Before joining St Peter's, Ben Schaper taught at the Universities of Munich and Durham, several colleges in Oxford and, most recently, Trinity College Dublin. He is also a former Sylvia Nash Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the University of London. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century Germanophone literature, film, and television. His recent publications include his monograph, Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit in der deutschen Literatur (2017), the special issue The Lonely Nerd (2022), and the volumes Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (2023) and Agency and Author: German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List (2025).