Dr Basker is Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Deputy Head of the School of Arts. He is co-ordinator of the Centre for Contemporary German Literature; he is also in charge of the Year Abroad and Exchange Students.

Research

German literature under National Socialism, especially inner emigration and West German literature since 1945. Dr Basker is currently working on Friedrich Christian Delius, and preparing a monograph on German writers and the student movement.

Publications

Books

• (ed.), Uwe Timm II, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, ISBN 0978-0-7083-2122-5, xi + 148 pp.
• (ed.), Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7083-1715-4/0-7083-1716-2, xi + 139 pp.
• (ed.), Hermann Peter Piwitt, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7083-1666-2/0-7083-1665-4, x + 118 pp.
• (ed.), Uwe Timm, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999, ISBN 0-7083-1447-3, ix + 148pp.
• (ed. with Mererid Hopwood), Sarah Kirsch, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997, ISBN 0-7083-1336-1, xii + 123 pp.
• Chaos, Control and Consistency: The Narrative Vision of Wolfgang Koeppen, Berne: Peter Lang, 1993, ISBN 3-906751-07-4, 352 pp.

• 'Connection, Dysfunction, Generation: Uwe Timm's Nicht morgen, nicht gestern and Rot', in Uwe Timm II, ed. David Basker (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. 50-70.
• 'Bibliography', in Uwe Timm II, ed. David Basker (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. 97-146.
• 'Uwe Timm: Outline Biography', in Uwe Timm II, ed. David Basker (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007), pp. 9-11.
• '"Schl¿sselszenen der Erfahrung": (Dis)location in the Prose Work of Hans-Ulrich Treichel', in Hans-Ulrich Treichel, ed. David Basker (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), pp. 37-60.
• 'Bibliography', in Hans-Ulrich Treichel, ed. David Basker (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), pp. 111-36.
• 'Hans-Ulrich Treichel: Outline Biography', in Hans-Ulrich Treichel, ed. David Basker (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), pp. 10-11.
• '"Deutschland lebt an der Nahtstelle, an der Bruchstelle": Literature and politics in Germany 1933-1950', in William Niven and James Jordan (eds), Politics and Culture in Twentieth-century Germany (New York: Camden House, 2003), pp. 89-106.
• '"I mounted resistance, though I hid the fact": Versions of Wolfgang Koeppen's Early Biography', in Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on "Inner Emigration" in German Literature, 1933-1945, ed. Neil H. Donahue and Doris Kirchner (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003), pp. 258-68.
• '"Whose Life is it Anyway?": Jewish Characters in Wolfgang Koeppen's Post-War Fiction', in Jews in German Literature since 1945: German-Jewish Literature?, ed. P¿l ¿ Dochartaigh (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000 [= German Monitor, 53])
• 'Hermann Peter Piwitt: Outline Biography', in Hermann Peter Piwitt, ed. David Basker (2000), pp. 7-9
• '"Die ungeheuerlichsten Dinge": Hermann Peter Piwitt's Ein unvers¿hnlich sanftes Ende', in Hermann Peter Piwitt, ed. David Basker (2000), pp. 80-94
• 'Uwe Timm: Literary Career', in Uwe Timm, ed. David Basker (1999), pp. 17-25
• '"Die Wandlung des Alltags in Bedeutung": Social History and "die ¿sthetik des Alltags"', in Uwe Timm, ed. David Basker (1999), pp. 82-110
• 'Bibliography', in Uwe Timm, ed. David Basker (1999), pp. 111-45
• 'German Studies: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day', The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 58/1996, 1998, pp. 889-908
• 'The Author as Victim: Wolfgang Koeppen, Jakob Littners Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch', Modern Language Review, 92/4 (October 1997), 903-11
• 'German Studies: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day', The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 57/1995, 1997, pp. 855-76
• 'Ein Bundesb¿rger geht auf Reisen: Wolfgang Koeppens Reiseliteratur', in Reisen im Diskurs: Modelle der literarischen Fremderfahrung von den Pilgerberichten bis zur Postmoderne, ed. Anne Fuchs and Theo Harden, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1996, pp. 587-601
• 'German Studies: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day', The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 56/1994, 1996, pp. 926-52
• 'Love in a Nazi Climate: The First Novels of Wolfgang Koeppen and Marie Luise Kaschnitz', German Life and Letters, 48/2 (April 1995), 184-98
• 'German Studies: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day', The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 55/1993, 1995, pp.933-54
• '"F¿r einen werdenden Schriftsteller keine schlechte Lehre": Wolfgang Koeppen's Literary Career Pre-1945', Modern Language Review, 88/3 (July 1993), 666-86