Melanie Dilly, a PhD student in German and Comparative Literature, has won the 2015 Sylvia Naish Lecture Competition and will deliver her lecture entitled ‘One Eye is not Enough: Stereoscopic Writing after WWII’ on 19 March 2015 at the Institute of Modern Languages Research.

The Sylvia Naish Lectures were launched in memory of Sylvia Naish, an accomplished linguist, translator, Friend of Germanic Studies, and benefactor of the former Institute of Germanic Studies.

Research students in the field of Germanic studies at universities across the UK are invited to submit proposals for this annual lecture. The winning entry carries a prize of £100.

The lecture is also published in abridged form in the next issue of the newsletter of the Friends of Germanic Studies.

In her lecture Melanie will argue that, owing to the rapidly increasing lack of first-hand witnesses, alternative paths for accessing memories of the Holocaust have to be found. These new paths are primarily defined by distance, understood in temporal, spatial and cultural terms. Read full details of Melanie’s lecture.