Dr David Gallagher was awarded a PhD in German by the University
of London following research into the theme of metamorphosis in
19th and 20th Century literature. He has a Master of Studies in
European Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Modern and
Medieval Languages from Cambridge University. The winner of The
Sylvia Naish Postgraduate Fellowship awarded by The Institute for
Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London in 2006, David
attends and gives papers regularly at conferences and is a
particularly keen follower of research in the writings of Thomas
Mann, having written a dissertation at Oxford concerning his use of
leitmotif and attended the Thomas-Mann-Literaturtage international
conferences in Davos in 2004 and 2006. Selected publications
include:
‘The transmission of Ovid’s Arachne metamorphosis in Jeremias
Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne’, Neophilologus 4 (2008),
699-711
‘Ovid's Metamorphoses and the transformation of metamorphosis in
Christoph Ransmayr's novel Die letzte Welt’, pp. 1-30.
http://www.cas.umn.edu/PDF/WP072.pdf. published 8 November 2007