Mr Frank Engelmann-Del Mestre

room: International Building 1.07

phone: +44 (1784) 443193

office hours: Wednesdays 11am-1pm /or by alternative arrangement

email: frank.engelmann@rhul.ac.uk

Frank Engelmann-del Mestre studied English, Philosophy/Ethics and Psychology at the Technische Universität Dresden in order to become a teacher for secondary schools. He completed his Erstes Staatsexamen with a thesis on 'Science Fiction as Postmodernism: Philip K. Dick and the Human Condition'. He also studied and completed a course in Deutsch als Fremdsprache at Kassel University. He has worked in the UK at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford Brookes before joining Royal Holloway in 2007 as DAAD-Lektor.

language teaching:

• GM1008 - German Language I: Deutschland und die Deutschen
• GM2008 - German Language II: Current Affairs and Preparation for the PRA
• GM3005 - German Language III: Schreiben, Sprechen, Hörverstehen

content teaching (past and present):

• GM2119 - Introduction to Modern European Philosophy
• ML1101 - Reading European Film
• ML1102 - The Birth of European Film

'A Late 18th-Century Ballad Opera and John Wilkes: The Bow-Street Opera (1773)' in John Gays 'The Beggar's Opera' und die Folgen: Die Rezeption der Bettleroper in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Uwe Böker (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006).