GERALD BÄR is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta of Portugal where he teaches online in the areas of Cutural Studies, German and Comparative Literature. He is Senior Researcher of CECC, co-editor of the Revista de Estudos Alemães in Portugal and has published widely on the motif of the "Doppelgänger" in literature and film and on the reception of Ossian.HOWARD GASKILL is Honorary Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh. His major research interests have included Sturm und Drang, Romanticism, Scottish-German literary relations (in particular Macpherson’s Ossian), literary translation, and more recently Arthur Koestler. In 2019 his translation into English of Hölderlin’s novel Hyperion appeared with Open Book Publishers, and he is now working on a new translation of Goethe’s Werther

• Dr Johnson and the Ruffian:　New Evidence in the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James MacphersonWhat Did James Macpherson Really Leave on Display at His Publisher’s Shop in 1762?James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian: A　Translation of "Low" Culture into "High"?Ossian and Orality; or the Sound of OssianGenre and Gender:　Ossianic Poetry from Oral Tradition to National Epic and Lyrical Drama "Original Harmony":　Ossianic Voices in Alencar’s Indianist NovelsOssian in the New World:　Alexandre Levy’s Symphonic Poem, ComalaConfessions of a Justified Folklorist The American Indian Oral TraditionFictional Representations of Cultural Realities:　Orality and Literature in Novels of Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Arundhati RoyDifferent Pathways in Traditional Portuguese and Chinese Literature

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GERALD BÄR is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta of Portugal where he teaches online in the areas of Cutural Studies, German and Comparative Literature. He is Senior Researcher of CECC, co-editor of the Revista de Estudos Alemães in Portugal and has published widely on the motif of the "Doppelgänger" in literature and film and on the reception of Ossian.HOWARD GASKILL is Honorary Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh. His major research interests have included Sturm und Drang, Romanticism, Scottish-German literary relations (in particular Macpherson’s Ossian), literary translation, and more recently Arthur Koestler. In 2019 his translation into English of Hölderlin’s novel Hyperion appeared with Open Book Publishers, and he is now working on a new translation of Goethe’s Werther

• Dr Johnson and the Ruffian:　New Evidence in the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James MacphersonWhat Did James Macpherson Really Leave on Display at His Publisher’s Shop in 1762?James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian: A　Translation of "Low" Culture into "High"?Ossian and Orality; or the Sound of OssianGenre and Gender:　Ossianic Poetry from Oral Tradition to National Epic and Lyrical Drama "Original Harmony":　Ossianic Voices in Alencar’s Indianist NovelsOssian in the New World:　Alexandre Levy’s Symphonic Poem, ComalaConfessions of a Justified Folklorist The American Indian Oral TraditionFictional Representations of Cultural Realities:　Orality and Literature in Novels of Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Arundhati RoyDifferent Pathways in Traditional Portuguese and Chinese Literature

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GERALD BÄR is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta of Portugal where he teaches online in the areas of Cutural Studies, German and Comparative Literature. He is Senior Researcher of CECC, co-editor of the Revista de Estudos Alemães in Portugal and has published widely on the motif of the "Doppelgänger" in literature and film and on the reception of Ossian.HOWARD GASKILL is Honorary Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh. His major research interests have included Sturm und Drang, Romanticism, Scottish-German literary relations (in particular Macpherson’s Ossian), literary translation, and more recently Arthur Koestler. In 2019 his translation into English of Hölderlin’s novel Hyperion appeared with Open Book Publishers, and he is now working on a new translation of Goethe’s Werther

• Dr Johnson and the Ruffian:　New Evidence in the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James MacphersonWhat Did James Macpherson Really Leave on Display at His Publisher’s Shop in 1762?James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian: A　Translation of "Low" Culture into "High"?Ossian and Orality; or the Sound of OssianGenre and Gender:　Ossianic Poetry from Oral Tradition to National Epic and Lyrical Drama "Original Harmony":　Ossianic Voices in Alencar’s Indianist NovelsOssian in the New World:　Alexandre Levy’s Symphonic Poem, ComalaConfessions of a Justified Folklorist The American Indian Oral TraditionFictional Representations of Cultural Realities:　Orality and Literature in Novels of Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Arundhati RoyDifferent Pathways in Traditional Portuguese and Chinese Literature

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