Dr Christine Berberich is a Reader in English at the University of Portsmouth.
She has just led the two- year Faculty Strategic Research Project on ‘PG Wodehouse and the Men of Tost’, an examination of Wodehouse’s infamous time as a Civilian Internee during the Second World War alongside the documentations and testimonies left behind by some of his fellow internees.
She is module leader for the third-year option Holocaust Literatures which sees her develop new approaches to Holocaust Teaching.
She has been working at the University of Portsmouth since August 2009, first as Senior Lecturer in English Literature and, since 2019, as Reader in Literature. Over the past years she has held a number of additional admin roles, most recently that of Global Engagement Lead for the School of Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature (January 2018 to December 2021). She is now Associate Head of School for Global Engagement.
Before she came to Portsmouth, she held a seven-year Lectureship in 19th and 20th Century Literature at the University of Derby. This partly overlapped her PhD research on the Image of the English Gentleman in 20th Century Literature which she conducted at the University of York; her PhD was awarded in 2004. Before that, she completed an MA in English Literature, Spanish and Latin American Language and Literature, and Modern History at the University of the Saarland in Germany (awarded 1998).
As part of the BA(Hons) English Literature degree she coordinates the first-year core module ‘Popular Culture’ and the final-year optional module ‘Holocaust Literatures’. She also teaches on the second-year core module ‘Literary Prizes and Public Acclaim’