Roger Smith
Roger Smith researched German poetry of the First World War, specifically Julius Bab’s anthology of First World War German poetry.
Qualifications
PhD in German, Victoria University of Wellington
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 has a doctorate 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's PhD research was in 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
Richard Millington
PhD Supervisor
Institute of Modern Letters
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.