Laura is a Jungian analyst and Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her main research areas are Romanticism and Fairy Tales, and she has published on German, British and American literature from the 18th-20th centuries.

Laura’s current research topics include:

·      The Gift as a Symbol in and of Therapeutic Practice. 

·      Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: A Study in Individuation

·      Ecology and Eco-Therapy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

She currently sits on the editorial board of Harvest.

Jungian topics:

Martin, L. (2016) ‘Fantastical Conversations with the Other in the Self: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and her Peter Wimsey as Animus’. Universityof Toronto Quarterly, 85(2), pp.25-46.

Fairy Tales

Martin, L. (2006) ‘The Jew in the Thornbush: German Fairy Tales and Anti-Semitism in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Musäus, Naubert and the Grimms'. Modern Language Review, pp. 123-141.

Martin, L. (2011) ‘The German Enlightenment and Romantic Kunstmärchen as anti-Märchen’. In: McAra, C. and Calvin, D. (eds.) Anti-Tales:The Uses of Disenchantment. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 18-36.ISBN 9781443828697

Martin, L. (2007) ‘Die Neue Volksmärchen der Deutschen: A New Twist on an Old Plot? The Rübezahl Legend in Benedikte Naubert (1756-1819) and Johann Karl August Musäus (1735-87)’. In: Gooze, M.E. (ed.) Challenging Separate Spheres: Female Bildung in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Germany. Series: North American studies in 19th-century German literature (40). Peter Lang: Oxford, UK, pp. 73-92. ISBN 9783039110186

Martin, L. (2006) Benedikte Nauberts Neue Volksmärchen der Deutschen: Strukturen des Wandels. Konigshausen & Neumann. ISBN 3826034163

Martin, L. (2005) ‘Narrative Strategies in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmärchen der Deutschen’. In: Borders and Margins - Essays on German Literature. Series: Scottish papers in Germanic Studies (12). Glasgow: French and German Publications: Glasgow, pp. 25-51. ISBN 0907409121

Martin, L. (2003) ‘The Rübezahl Legend in Benedikte Naubert and Johann Karl August Musäus’. Marvelsand Tales, 17(2), p. 197. (doi: 10.1353/mat.2003.0032)

Martin, L. (1999) ‘Über die Lauheit und das Lachen der Lau. Zu Mörikes Historie aus psychoanalytischer und feministischer Sicht’. In: Wierlacher, A. (ed.) Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Iudicium Verlag: Munich, pp. 398-408.

Articles in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Greenwood Press (ed. D. Haase, D. (2008) 

 ‘Anti-Semitism’. 

 ‘Kind and Unkind Girls’.

‘Mother Holle’.

‘Musäus, Johann Karl August (1735-87)’.

‘Novella’. 

‘Violence’. 

Other Literary Studies:

Büchner, G., Martin, L. and Mackendrick, J. (Eds.) (2021) Woyzeck. Series: Student editions. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama: London ; New York. ISBN 9781350108141 (includes a study of the play and commentary on the text)

Martin, L. (2014) ‘Reading the Individual: The Ethics of Narration in the Works of W. G. Sebald as an Example for Comparative Literature’. Comparative Critical Studies, 11(1), pp.29-47. 

Martin, L. (2000) Narrative Feminine Identity and the Appearance of Woman in Some of the Shorter Fiction of Goethe, Kleist, Hawthorne and James. Series: Women's studies (23). E. Mellen Press: Lewiston, N.Y., USA. ISBN 9780773478091

Martin, L. (2000) ‘The Feminine Voice and the Eternal Verities: Goethe's Wanderjahre and its Critics. In: Reed, T.J., Swales, M. and Adler,J.D. (eds.) Goethe at 250: London Symposium. Series: Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies (75). Iudicium: Munich,Germany, pp. 67-84. ISBN 9783891290491

Martin, L. (1999) ‘Die Marquise von O… and The Scarlet Letter: A Study in Vicarious Gender-Jumping’. In: Saul, N., Steuer, D., Mobus,F. and Illner, B. (eds.) Schwellen: GermanistischeErkundungen einer Metapher. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg, pp.251-264. ISBN 9783826015526

Martin, L. (1998) ‘Loss of Memory, Estrangement from the Body: Heinrich von Kleist’s Die Marquise von O…. In: Talmor, S. and Brinkhuis, F. (eds.) Memory,History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, 19-24 Aug 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISSEI/University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, pp. 1-9. ISBN 9789073022119

Martin, L. (1997) 'SchlechtesMensch/Gutes Opfer': The Role of Marie in Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. German Life and Letters, 50(4), pp.429-444. 

Martin, L. (1993) ‘Who’s the Fool Now? A Study of Goethe’s Novella "Die pilgernde Törin" from his Novel Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre’. German Quarterly, 66(4), pp. 431-450. 

Edited books

Colvin, S., Martin, L. , Phipps, A. and Reisenberger, C. (Eds.) (2004) Myth and Mythmaking. Series: German life and letters. Blackwell.

Martin, L. (Ed.) (2001) Harmony in Discord: German Women Writers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Peter Lang: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9783906766881

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