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Deborah Barton

Professeure agrégée

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'histoire

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C-6120

514 343-6111 #41431

deborah.barton@umontreal.ca

Chercheuse

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Centre d'études et de recherches internationales

deborah.barton@umontreal.ca

Profile

Biography

  • 2023 - Livre publié : "Writing and Rewriting the Reich: Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-War Press" : https://utorontopress.com/9781487547219/writing-and-rewriting-the-reich/ 
  • 2015 - Thèse de doctorat: "From Dictatorship to Democracy. German Women Journalists, 1933-1945" (University of Toronto (Canada).
  • 2009 - Mémoire de maîtrise: "“Personal PR? Self-Presentation in the Diaries and Memoirs of Women Writers in the Third Reich” (Université de Toronto (Canada).

education

  • 2015 — Doctorat — HistoireUniversité de Toronto
  • 2015 — Postdoctorat — HistoireFreie Universität Berlin

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Affiliations and responsabilities

Teaching and supervision

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

Projects

Research projects

2019 - 2024

Frontlines to Headlines: The Politics of Memory, War and the Press in interwar Germany

Lead researcher : Deborah Barton
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir
2019 - 2022

Frontlines to Headlines: The Politics of War, Memory and the Press in Interwar Germany

Lead researcher : Deborah Barton
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVX20020-Subvention institutionnelle du CRSH - Subventions d'exploration

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

Livres

2022- Barton, Deborah. Writing and Rewriting the Reich. German Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-war Press, Toronto : University of Toronto Press.

2019- Barton, Deborah, et al. Becoming TransGerman: Cultural Identity Beyond Geography. New York : Peter Lang.

Chapitres de livres

2020- Barton, Deborah. « Deutsche Journalistinnen in Ost und West: Zwischen prekärer Gegenwart und umstrittener Vergangenheit“ dans Rene Moehrle (éd.), Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten in der deutschsprachigen Presse. (Gutenberg: Computus, Druck Satz & Verlag), pp.20-31.

2019- Barton, Deborah. “In the Presence of the Past, in the Shadow of the ‘Other’: Women Journalists in Post-war Germany(s)” dans Friederike Brühöfener, Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements. (New York : Berghahn), chapitre 14.

2014- Barton, Deborah. “‘Soft’ Propaganda for Germany? Ursula von Kardorff (1937-1962)” dans Christa Spreizer (éd.), Discovering Women’s History. German-Speaking Journalists, 1900-1950, (Oxford : Peter Lang), pp.309-335

Articles de revue

2022- Barton, Deborah. “'A Female Voice is Instrumental'. Gender, Propaganda and Coerced Labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945”, Labour History, Numéro spécial « Gender, War and Coerced Labor », 35p. : https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2022.2146077

2022- Barton, Deborah. “’World Enemy Bolshevism’ Gender, Journalism & the Continuities of Ideological Conflict in Germany, 1933-1955 », Women’s History Review, 31(7), pp.1149-1168 : https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2022.2070957

2018- Barton, Deborah. « Rewriting the Reich: German Women Journalists as Transnational Mediators for Germany's Rehabilitation », Central European History, 51(4), pp.563-584 : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938918000730

2015- Barton, Deborah, "Couvrir la colonisation sans la violence: les femmes journalistes allemandes et la  germanisation à l’Est pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale,” Genre & Histoire : https://genrehistoire.revues.org/2132

Critiques de livres

2022- Barton, Deborah. « Rosemary Sullivan's The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation », Women’s History Review : https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2174683

2018- Barton, Deborah. « An New History of Hitler's SA" Review of: Daniel Siemens, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts », The English Historical Review, 134(570), pp.1350-1352 : https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez277

2017- Barton, Deborah. « ‘Holocaust Angst’. Review of: Jacob Eder, Holocaust Angst : The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s », H-Net German and H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=50061

Communications

2022- Barton, Deborah. “‘Blood and soil but streamlined by Elizabeth Arden.’ Edit Von Coler’s Propaganda and Diplomacy in Romania,” National Socialism and the International Public Sphere, Bochum (Allemagne), 28-29 septembre.

2022- Barton, Deborah. "L’armement de l’histoire et de la mémoire. La Seconde Guerre mondiale et l’Holocauste en Ukraine", Conférence sur l’Ukraine, sa place en Europe et son histoire : ouvrent du cours au public (Université de Montréal et sur ligne), 14 avril.

2022- Barton, Deborah. "Gender, War and Forced Labor,” Atelier organisé par l’éditeur-en-chef de Labor History, Vienne (Autriche), 11-12 mars

2022- Barton, Deborah. “From Gulag to Gulag: Coerced Labor in the Soviet Union,” Centre for Gender Studies, University of Glasgow (Royaume-Uni), 29 janvier.

2021- Barton, Deborah. "Journalisme, genre et violence dans l’Allemagne nazie et d’après-guerre", Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes (CCÉAE), Université de Montréal, 23 avril.

2020- Barton, Deborah. “German Journalists between Nazi Dictatorship and American Democracy, 1933-1995," German Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (USA), sur ligne, 1-4 octobre.

2019- Barton, Deborah. "Survie et témoignage dans le journal et les mémoires de Molly Appelbaum," Question du genre pendant et après la Shoah: Récits de survie et d'immigration au Canada, Université de Montréal, 5 novembre.

2019- Barton, Deborah. "Beautifying Fascist Violence", Conférence internationale « Fascism and Violence », Uppsala University (Suède), 25-27 septembre.

2019- Barton, Deborah. „In der Gegenwart der Vergangenheit. Journalistinnen in Nachkriegsdeutschland(en)", Die Entwicklung Deutsch-Sprachiger Printmedien Seit 1945", Trier (Allemagne), 26-27 mars.

2018- Barton, Deborah. “Les femmes journalistes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale", CCÉAE, Université de Montréal, 28 novembre.

2018- Barton, Deborah. “A Buried History? Sexual Exploitation & Memory in the Testimony of Molly Applebaum,” Sexual Violence in the Context of the Holocaust, Genocide and War, The Azriel Foundation in partnership with The McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University (Canada), 15 octobre.

2018- Barton, Deborah. “Continuity and Rupture in German Journalism Across the 1933 Divide,” German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh (USA), 27-30 septembre.

2018- Barton, Deborah. “Unexpected Allies: The U.S. Military Occupation Force and German Women Journalists”, Berlin Program Summer Workshop, Freie Universität (Allemagne), 27-29 juin.

2017- Barton, Deborah. “Caught Between Past and Present: Women Journalists in East and West Germany”, Center for War Studies, University of Glasgow (Royaume-Uni), 19 février.

2016- Barton, Deborah. “Post-war Positioning: Gender and the (West) German Press, 1945—1949,” German History Society annual conference, Newcastle (Royaume-Uni), 25 septembre.

2016- Barton, Deborah. “German Women Journalists and Violence on the Eastern Front during the Second World War,” State University for the Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russie), 11 mai.

2016- Barton, Deborah. “War and Memory”, Table-ronde à la Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscou (Russie), 9 mai.

2015- Barton, Deborah. “Cleaning up the Mess: Women Journalists as Mediators for Germany’s Post-war Rehabilitation,” John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin (Allemagne), 27 avril.

2015- Barton, Deborah. “The Transnational Politics of Journalism in Early Postwar Germany,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York (USA), 2-5 janvier.

2014- Barton, Deborah. “Myth and Memory: Representations of the National Socialist Press in the Post-war Period,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Kansas City (USA), 18-21 septembre.

2013- Barton, Deborah. “The Elasticity of Politics, Culture, and Journalism 1942-1945,” Lessons of War: Gender and the Second World War, University of Lancaster (Royaume-Uni), 12-13 septembre.

2013- Barton, Deborah. “From Opportunity to Influence? Women Journalists, the ‘Aryanization’ of the Press, and Representations of Jewish Suffering in Germany, 1933-1948,” University of Toronto Center for Jewish Studies (Canada), 12 avril.

2012- Barton, Deborah. "Feminizing Total War? The Public Influence of Women Journalists 1939-1945,” Women in German Conference, Delaware (USA).

2012- Barton, Deborah.Commentatrice sur le panel “Impact on Germany”, Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Retrospect and Prospect Conference, University of Toronto (Canada), 12 septembre.

2012- Barton, Deborah. “‘Soft’ Propaganda for Germany? Ursula von Kardorff, Journalist, 1937-1955,” American-Canadian Conference of German Historians, University of Rochester (USA), 3 avril.

2009- Barton, Deborah. “Personal PR? Self-Presentation in the Diaries and Memoirs of Women Journalists in the Third Reich,” New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference, York (Canada), 21 février.

Disciplines

  • History
  • Women Studies
  • Journalism

Areas of expertise

  • World War, 1939–1945
  • Modern Times
  • 1900-1945
  • 1945-1989
  • 20th century
  • Germany
  • Between the wars
  • Early Modern Times
  • 19th century
  • Sexual and gender identity
  • Europe
  • Journalism
  • Gender studies
  • Violence
  • Mass media