Nicole Perry is a Senior Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland. Before coming to the University of Auckland, she was a Lise Meitner-Programme fellow (2013-2017) funded by the Austrian Scientific Fund (FWF) for her project "Performing Germaness; Reclaiming Aboriginality", based at the University of Vienna. From 2011-2013 she was postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna working on the critical edition of the letters (Briefausgabe) of the Austrian-American Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864). She completed her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto (2012) with a dissertation on the German image of North American Indigenous people from 1800-present. She has taught a range of courses at universities including: the University of Guelph, University of Vienna and Masaryk University, Brno, CZ.

Responsibilities:
Major and Specialization Leader, European Languages and Literatures

CLL Representative, Board of Gender Studies

Committee/Professional groups/Services:
NCEA Review Panel European Languages, German Tertiary Representative

Advisory Board, Europe Institute

Associate Editor, German: The William F. Cody Papers

Co-director, Research Centre for Germanic Connections to New Zealand and the Pacific

Co-editor, Germanica Pacifica Series

Qualifications:
BA University of Alberta, MA McGill University, PhD University of Toronto

Areas of Expertise:
Germanic literature and culture 1750-present; representations of North America and Indigenous North America; Film and New Media Studies; Visual Culture; Germans in the South Pacific; Travel Writing; contemporary Austrian literature, Charles Sealsfield; Indigenous Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Holocaust Studies