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German Studies: The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration
Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on aspects of Holocaust memory and German memory contests. Her monograph Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature will appear with Camden House in 2014. Her current research interests focus broadly on gendered representations of boredom, laziness, idleness and sloth in German literature and culture since the Enlightenment.