Dr. Finch's monograph on queer masculine identities in the works of W. G. Sebald, Sebald's Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life, will appear with Legenda in 2013.
She is working on a major AHRC-funded research project, entitled 'Holocaust Literature in German: Canon, Witness, Remediation'. She has received an AHRC Early Career Fellowship to pursue this project, which is mentored by Professor Frank Finlay.
In connection with this project, she organised a British academy-funded conference, in collaboration with Dr. Lynn Wolff of the University of Stuttgart, entitled 'H. G. Adler/W. G. Sebald: Witnessing, Memory, Poetics', held at the IGRS on 11 October 2012.
She is also a co-investigator on a British Academy-funded International Networking project, led by Prof. Bill Niven of Nottingham Trent University and also including Prof. Stuart Taberner of Leeds, linking researchers in the UK and South Africa working on trauma, reconciliation and reparation in the aftermath of German Nazism and Afrikaner nationalism. Taberner, Finch and Niven are also building links with the South African Holocaust and Genocide foundation, and will be engaged in public events there in 2013.
Dr. Finch is a member of the SMLC Literary Studies steering group, and a co-director of the SMLC Violence, Trauma and Memory cluster.