Roger Smith

Roger Smith is researching German poetry of the First World War, specifically Julius Bab’s anthology of First World War German poetry.

Qualifications

MA (Distinction) in German, Victoria University of Wellington
PGDipIM in Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington
GDipArts in German, Victoria University of Wellington
BMus in Composition, Victoria University of Wellington
BA in Musicology, Victoria University of Wellington

Profile

Roger Smith is a PhD candidate in German at Victoria University of Wellington. He holds a Master of Arts with Distinction in German and degrees in Information Management and Music from the same institution. Roger is researching German Poetry of the First World War, specifically the poetry collected by Julius Bab in his wide-ranging twelve-instalment anthology 1914 Der deutsche Krieg im deutschen Gedicht.

PhD topic

The German War in German Poetry: Julius Bab’s Anthology of First World War German Poetry.

Supervisors

Publications

Smith, Roger. “Wicked Wilhelmites and Sauer Krauts: The New Zealand Reception of Ernst Lissauer’s ‘Hymn of Hate.’” The Journal of New Zealand Studies, no. NS28 (2019).

Millington, Richard, and Roger Smith. “‘A Few Bars of the Hymn of Hate’: The Reception of Ernst Lissauer’s ‘Haßgesang gegen England’ in German and English." Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 41, no. 2 (2017): 5.