Jenny Williams (born 1939) is an author and academic at
Dublin City University
Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) ( ga, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Created as the ''National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin'' in 1975, it enrolled its f ...
. She earned a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in
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from
Queen's University Belfast
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in 1974 and a
PhD in Medieval Historiography and Heroic Literature in 1979.
Until 2007 she was the head of Dublin City's School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies.
Selected works
* ''Etzel der riche'', 1981
* ''Language, Education and Society in a Changing World'', Multilingual Matters, 1996
* ''More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada'', Libris, 1998
* ''The Map. A Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies'', St. Jerome, 2002
* ''Mehr Leben als eins: Hans Fallada: Eine Biographie, Aufbau-Verlag'', 2002
* ''Die Provinz im Leben und Werk von Hans Fallada'', Individuell, 2005
References
External links
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Academics of Dublin City University
Living people
1939 births
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