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Professor Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer, FEA
Professorship for British Studies: Early Modern and Modern Texts (Prof. Stierstorfer)

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Research Areas
- Fundamentalism and Literature
- Law and Literatur
- Diaspora Studies
- Literary Theory and Literary History
CV
Education
- Habilitation
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- Teacher training and second State Exam
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- Doctoral studies, Keble College, University Oxford
- First university degree in English and Theology, University Regensburg
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- Undergraduate studies in english and theology at the Universities Oxford and Regensburg
Positions
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- Professor of British Studies, WWU
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- Professor of English Studies, HHU Düsseldorf
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- Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Würzburg
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- Junior research fellow, St Cross College, University Oxford
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- Research scholarship, DFG
Honors
- Short Stay Visiting Fellowship – Institute of Advanced Studies, Teh University of Western Australia, Perth
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External functions
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- Corresponding Fellow, English Association, Leicester
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- Vice president, Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V
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- Vice President, Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft
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- President, Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
Appointments
- Professor of english studies, HHU Düsseldorf
- Professor of british studies, WWU
- Professor of Anglistik, Duisburg-Essen (not accepted)
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Teaching
- Kolloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [092890]
[n. V. | Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer] - Kolloquium: SFB-Promotionskolloquium
(in cooperation with Dr. Gideon Stiening, Marcus Schnetter)
[ - | Dr. Gideon Stiening] - Seminar: The Dramatic Monologue [092853]
[ | wöchentlich | Di. | AE 11 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer] - Seminar: British 17th-Century Poetry [092854]
[ | wöchentlich | Di. | ES 226 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer]
- Kolloquium: SFB-Promotionskolloquium
(in cooperation with Dr. Gideon Stiening, Marcus Schnetter)
[ - | ES 130 | Dr. Gideon Stiening] - Kolloquium: Research Colloquium [090883]
[ - | ES 202 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer]
[Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer] - Seminar: British Nineteenth-Century Melodrama [090846]
[ | wöchentlich | Di. | ES 2 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer] - Vorlesung: British Nineteenth-Century Literature [090751]
[ | wöchentlich | Di. | Audi Max | Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer]
- Tagung/Kongress: LMET Tagung
(in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Matthias Erdbeer) - Blockseminar: Rabindranath Tagore's literary and cultural oeuvre [096897]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Pradeep Trikha)
- Kolloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium (SFB-Law & Literature) [095109]
- Kolloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium (British Studies) [095108]
- Seminar: Law in British Literature: Shakespeare to McEwan [095058]
- Seminar: New Formalisms in Contemporary Poetry [092991]
(in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Matthias Erdbeer)
- Informationsveranstaltung: Informationsveranstaltung zum Umbau der Seminarbibliothek Englisches Seminar
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz) - Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [090755]
- Seminar: Models and/as/of Literature (offen für Germanistik Fachmaster) [096732]
(in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Matthias Erdbeer) - Vorlesung: British Restauration and Augustan Literature [090589]
- Sonderveranstaltung: SmartNet-Treffen
- Sonderveranstaltung: Abschlussworkshop Graduiertenkolleg Literarische Form [095377]
(in cooperation with Dr. Leonie Windt-Wetzel) - Gastvortrag: Gastvortrag Prof. Dr. Wutsdorff
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [098761]
- Vorlesung: From the Middle Ages to Renaissance British Literature [098594]
- Ausstellung: Study India Day
- Doktorandenkolloquium: Forschungskolloquium VI [097372]
(in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Matthias Erdbeer) - Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096750]
- Vorlesung: British Postmodernism [096636]
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [092772]
- Seminar: Diaspora Literature in Britain - British Diaspora Literature [092738]
- Einzelveranstaltung: Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form Tag 2
- Einzelveranstaltung: Research Module
- Einzelveranstaltung: Journalism & New Media
- Einzelveranstaltung: Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form Tag 2
- Generalprobe Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form
- Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form
- Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form
- Vorbesprechung zur Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form
- Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form Tag 2
- Generalprobe Begutachtung des DFG Graduiertenkollegs Literarische Form II
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [098790]
- Seminar: Britain's Epic Tradition [098763]
- Vorlesung: British Modernist Literature [098679]
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [094865]
- Seminar: Literature and ... [094838]
- Vorlesung: Victorian Literature [094744]
- Doktorandenkolloquium: Forschungskolloquium GRK Literarische Form [097670]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Lutgart Missinne) - Kolloquium: GRK Forschungskolloquium [097632]
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [097580]
- Vorlesung: British Restoration and Augustan Literature [096253]
- Workshop: Profilworkshop - GRK Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Workshop - Graduiertenkolleg Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Kompaktseminar - GRK Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Kompaktseminar - GRK Literarische Form
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096771]
- Sonderveranstaltung: Kompaktseminar - GRK Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Study India Day
- Sonderveranstaltung: Workshop - Graduiertenkolleg Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Kompaktseminar - GRK Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Kompaktseminar - GRK Literarische Form
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [095843]
- Seminar: Literature of the British Raj [095509]
- Vorlesung: British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance [094756]
- Workshop: Profilworkshop - GRK Literarische Form
- Sonderveranstaltung: Herausgeber-Treffen "Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft"
- Doktorandenkolloquium: Forschungskolloquium - GRK Literarische Form
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [095280]
- Oberseminar: Promotionsseminar. "Diaspora Studies Colloquium" [095295]
- Seminar: British Classicist Poetry [094758]
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN-Conference
- Tagung/Kongress: ITN Conference
- Sonderveranstaltung: Gastvortrag
- Sonderveranstaltung: ITN-Tagung
- Kolloquium: Diaspora Studies Colloquium [097543]
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096829]
- Seminar: Religion and Literature [096360]
(in cooperation with Dr. Franziska Quabeck) - Vorlesung: Advanced Module [096010]
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096869]
- Seminar: British Renaissance Tragedy [096376]
- Vorlesung: Molecular Biophysics [095987]
- Oberseminar: Doktorandenkolloquium [096850]
- Seminar: Literature, Culture and Theory of Diaspora Studies [096478]
(in cooperation with Annika Merk) - Vorlesung: Nineteenth-Century British Literature [096133]
- Grundkurs: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs II : Gruppe II [094880]
- Oberseminar: Oberseminar [096060]
- Hauptseminar: Literature, Culture and Theory of Diaspora (Common Comparative Course TEP) [095795]
(in cooperation with Annika Merk) - Vorlesung: British Restoration and Augustan Literature [095169]
- Grundkurs: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs I [094972]
(in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Florian Kläger) - Doktorandenkolloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [096061]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungskolloquium: Graduate School [096023]
- Vorlesung: British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance [095194]
- Grundkurs: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs II : Gruppe III [094964]
- Doktorandenkolloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [096182]
- Kolloquium: BSc Biosciences [096346]
- Vorlesung: Postmodernism and Beyond [095224]
- Peer-Learning: Selbststudium / Lektüre
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Mark Stein, Maria Diedrich) - Grundkurs: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlicher Grundkurs I [094756]
(in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Florian Kläger) - Doktorandenkolloquium: Betreuungskolloquium/Doktorandenkolloquium [095843]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft für Examenskandidaten [095657]
- Vorlesung: Modernism [095020]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft: Literatures and Cultures in English: Hot Spots for Examination Candidates [094604]
- Oberseminar: Research: Strategies, Essential Theories, Close-ups [095304]
- Hauptseminar: British Romanticism [094920]
- Vorlesung: 19th Century British Literature [094460]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft: Literatures and Cultures in English: Hot Spots for Examination Candidates [094382]
- Kolloquium: 1.2.3 Third academic year [092045]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf) - Oberseminar: Research: Strategies, Essential Theories, Close-ups [095082]
- Hauptseminar: The Great Classicists: Dryden and Pope [094841]
- Hauptseminar: Philosophy and Literature [094655]
- Vorlesung: British Restoration and Augustan Literature [094249]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft: Literatures and Cultures in English: Hot Spots for Examination Candidates [095046]
- Oberseminar: Research: Strategies, Essential Theories, Close-ups [095338]
- Hauptseminar: 17th Century Poetry [094881]
- Seminar: Literature and the Nation in Elizabethan England [094460]
- Vorlesung: From the Middle Ages to Renaissance British Literature [094293]
- Kolloquium: Betreuungsseminar Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft: Literatures and Cultures in English: Hot Spots for Examination Candidates [095133]
- Oberseminar: Research: Strategies, Essential Theories, Close-ups [095372]
- Hauptseminar: Literature and the Media [094892]
- Hauptseminar: Ethical Criticism [095061]
- Vorlesung: Postmodernism and Beyond [094213]
- Kolloquium: Literatures and Cultures in English: Hot Spots for Examination Candidates [094765]
- Oberseminar: Research: Strategies, Essential Theories, Close-ups [094951]
- Hauptseminar: Empire Writing [094602]
- Hauptseminar: Virginia Woolf and the "Bloomsbury Group" [094727]
- Vorlesung: Modernism in Britain and Ireland [094124]
- Kolloquium: Doktorandenkolloquium [092890]
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Projects
- CRC 1385: Law and Literature - Z: Central Administrative Project ( - )
Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at WWU: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, Z - CRC 1386: Law and Literature - S01: Enzyclopedia-Project ( - )
Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at WWU: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, S01 - CRC 1385: Law and Literature - MGK: Integrated Research Training Group ( - )
Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at WWU: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, MGK - CRC 1385: Law and Literature - C02: Literature as Equity in British Cultural History ( - )
Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at WWU: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, C02 - CRC 1385: Law and Literature ( - )
Main DFG-project hosted at WWU: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1 - Poetic Modelling and Energy Transition - Development and Application of a Transdisciplinary Theory of Models ( - )
Participation in other joint projects: Volkswagen Foundation - Off the Beaten Track | Project Number: 93293 - RTG 1886 - Literary Form - Historical and Cultural Formations of Aesthetic Models ( - )
Main DFG-project hosted at WWU: DFG - Research Training Group | Project Number: GRK 1886/1 - COHAB - Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging ( - )
EU-project hosted at WWU: EC FP 7 - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks | Project Number: 289672 - "Orbis Britannicus versus Orbis Europaeus?" Negotiations of National
and European Identities in British and Irish Literature ( - )
Individual project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: KL 2443/1-1; STI 133/12-1 - DSC - Diaspora Project Consortium ( - )
EU-project hosted at WWU: EC - Lifelong Learning Programme: Erasmus | Project Number: 160725-EM-1-2009-1-DE-ERA MUNDUS-CANTEP
- CRC 1385: Law and Literature - Z: Central Administrative Project ( - )
Publications
- . . ‘Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature.’ In Citizenship, Law and Literature, edited by , 1–12. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110749830-001.
- 10.1515/9783110749830. (Eds.): . Citizenship, Law and Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:
- . . ‘Bollywood in Indian Diasporic Literature.’ In Culture and Literature in EFL Education. Relating Theory to Practice, edited by , 253–264. Berlin: Peter Lang.
- . . ‘The Revival of Legal Humanism.’ In Law and Literature, edited by , 9–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- (Eds.): . Literarische Form / Literary Form. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- (Eds.): . The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader. New York, London: Routledge.
- . . „Brückenkopf Britannien. Zur Europa-Sehnsucht anglophiler Modernisten.“ In Europa gibt es doch ... Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literature, herausgegeben von , 103–114. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
- . . ‘La Forma Literaria.’ Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas 56: 45–47.
- (Eds.): . Diaspora, Law and Literature. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- . ‘Introduction.’ In Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by , 1–7. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘Fundamentalism and Postcoloniality: Beyond "Westoxification"?’ In The Future of Postcolonial Studies, edited by , 101–113. New York, London: Routledge.
- . ‘Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on "Diaspora and Home".’ In Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by , 11–20. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- (Eds.): . Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘“ ‘21 Grams’: Interdisciplinarity and the Assessment of Quality in the Humanities”.’ In Research Quality in the Humanities: Towards Criteria and Procedures for Evaluating Research, edited by , 211–218. Springer Verlag.
- . . „Robert Chambers (1802-1971): Wie die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung die Evolutionstheorie erfand.“ In Literaturgeschichte. Theorien - Modelle - Praktiken, herausgegeben von , 215–230. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- . . ‘The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), Christopher Monger (dir.).’ In Film (Part I), edited by , 299–319. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- (Eds.): . Teaching Contemporary Film. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- . . „Linguistic Turun.“ In Metzler Lexikon Literatur- and Kulturtheorie, herausgegeben von , 447–48. 5th Ed. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag.
- . . ‘Review, The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, ed. Ato Quayson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 2 vols.’ Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 12/13: 405–408.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
- (Hrsg.): . Inhaltliche Anforderungen für Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Studienfach Englisch. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- . . ‘Introduction.’ In Burning Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature, edited by , vii–xix. New York: AMS Press.
- . . ‘Postmodernism.’ In English and American Studies. Theory and Practice, edited by , 88–97. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- (Eds.): . Buringin Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature. New York: AMS Press.
- . . ‘ Rev. Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements, ed. Humeira Iqtidar and David Lehmann. Critical Concept in Religious Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.’ International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 12, No. 3-4: 348–351.
- . . ‘Review, April London, Literary History Writing, 1770-1820 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).’ ZAA 60, No. 2: 192–194.
- . . ‘Who Owns Britain? S.T. Coleridge and the National Trust.’ Pólemos. Rivista semestrale di diritto, politica e cultura 2011, No. 1: 173–185.
- . . ‘Law and (which?) Literature: New Directions in Post-Theory?’ Law and Humanities 5, No. 1: 41–51.
- . . ‘Review, Magrit Frölich, Christian Schneider, Karsten Visarius (eds), Projektionen des Fundamentalismus. Reflexionen und Gegenbilder im Film (Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2008).’ Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 248: 214–216.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
- (Eds.): . Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature. New York.
- . . ‘The British 'Intrusion Play': Victorians and After.’ In Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature, edited by . New York: AMS Press.
- (Eds.): . In Quest of Nothing: Selected Essays of Ihab Hassan. New York: AMS Press.
- (Eds.): . From Interculturalism to Transculturalism. Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
- (Eds.): . Writing Fundamentalism. Newcastle upon Tyne.
- . . ‘Fundamentalism as Other: Readings in Literature, Ethics and Philosophy.’ In Writing Fundamentalism, edited by , 109–129. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- . . „James Macpherson, The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 464–465. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 68–69. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Einen Jux will er sich machen.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 43. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „George Lillo, The London Merchant.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 157. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „Jerome Klapka Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 354–355. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „William Cowper, "The Task".“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 147–148. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „Geoffrey Chaucer, Troylus and Criseyde.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 739–740. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew, or the Merry Beggars.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 193. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . „Richard Brome, The City Wit, or the Woman Wears the Breeches”.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von , 192–193. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- . . ‘Review, Raymond John Howego, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940. The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization in the Oceans, the Islands, New Zealand and the Polar Regions from 1850 to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2006); and Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940. Continental Exploration: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas from 1850 to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2008).’ Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 9: 383–386.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
- (Eds.): . Cultures of Translation. Newcastle upon Tyne.
- (Eds.): . Literary encounters of fundamentalism. A case book. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- . . ‘Introduction.’ In Literary encounters of fundamentalism: A case book, edited by , 7–11. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- . . ‘Antipodean Geographies: Australian ‘Translations’.’ In Cultures of Translation, edited by , 19–31. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- . ‘Introduction.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature: A Casebook, edited by , 7–11. h: Carl Winter Verlag.
- (Eds.): . Literary Encounters of Fundamentalism: A Casebook. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- (Ed.): . Anglistentag 2007 in Münster. Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- (Eds.): . Teaching Contemporary Novels. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
- (Eds.): . Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment. New York.
- (Eds.): . Reading the Caribbean. Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean literature und culture. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- . . ‘Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by , 3–8. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- . . ‘Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by , 143–160. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- . . ‘Introduction.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43, No. 2: 121–124. doi: 10.1080/17449850701430424.
- . . ‘Laughing Caribbean: Humour in Caribbean Literature and Culture.’ In Reading the Caribbean: Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean literature und culture, edited by , 315–335. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- . . ‘Review, Raymond John Howego, Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2003); and Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2004).’ Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 7: 358–361.
- . . ‘Rev. Kwok-kan Tam, Andrew Parkin, Terry Siu-han Yip (eds), Shakespeare Global/Local. The Hong Kong Imaginary in Transcultural Production. Anglo-Amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American Studies 17 (Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Peter Lang, 2002).’ Symbolism. An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics 6: 465–469.
- (Eds.): . Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire. London.
- . . „Welche Kompetenzen benötigt ein Frachreferent? – Erwartungen der Wissenschaftler.“ In Düsseldorfer Beiträge zum 94. Deutschen Bibliothekartag, herausgegeben von , 3–7. Düsseldorf: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag / Self-publishing.
- . . ‘General Introduction.’ In Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire I: Africa, edited by , ix–xxv. London: Pickering & Chatto.
- . . ‘Introduction.’ In Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire IV: India, edited by , ix–xxix. London: Pickering & Chatto.
- . . ‘Michael Frayn: Democracy.’ In Teaching Contemporary Drama. Teaching Contemporary Literature, edited by . Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- . . „Verbindungslinien: Hongkong, seine englischsprachige Dichtung und Deutschland / Connections: Hong Kong, its Poetry in English, and German.“ In Hongkong. Poems - Gedichte. Englisch - Deutsch, herausgegeben von , 45–86. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
- . . ‘Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by , 3–8. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- . . ‘Michael Frayn: Democracy.’ In Teaching Contemporary Drama, edited by , 103–120. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
- (Eds.): . A Life Half Understood: West-Östliche Gedichte aus Hong Kong. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
- . . ‘Germany Meets Canada.’ Rhine Magazine 13: 30.
- . . ‘Review, Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein (eds), Cheeky Fictions. Laughter and the Postcolonial. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2005).’ Sprachkunst 37, No. 1: 198–203.
- . . ‘Vestiges of Nineteenth-Century Biology and Literature: Robert Chambers.’ In Evolving Networks: Biology. Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, edited by . London.
- (Eds.): . Return to postmodernism. Theory - Travel Writing - Autobiography. Festschrift in honour of Ihab Hassan. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
- (Hrsg.): . Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
- . . „Einleitung: Anmerkungen zur Interdisziplinarität der Kulturwissenschaften.“ In Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär, herausgegeben von , 9–18. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
- . . ‘‘Postmortemism’: Malcolm Bradbury's Legacy in To the Hermitage.’ Études Anglaises 58, No. 2005/2: 154–165.
- . . „Introduction: Canada from European Perspectives.“ In Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture, herausgegeben von , 1–7. Berlin, New York (NY): De Gruyter.
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Richter, Elisabeth-Marie Englische Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert auf dem Index der verbotenen Bücher (Zweitgutachten) Windt-Wetzel, Leonie Modelling Rural and Urban Place in Post-Ceasefire and Post-Agreement Northern Irish Narrative Fiction Jain, Jayana Nation, Home and Identity: An Inquiry into Diasporic Trajectories in Selected ‘Post- 9/11’ Pakistani Novels and Hindi Films Dieks, Linda The Influence of the Gothic on Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis John, Stefanie ost-Romantic Aesthetics and Constructions of Subjectivity and Marginality in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry Tronicke, Marlena Suicide in Shakespeare Scharff, Anne-Katrin Wahnsinn und Druckerschwärze. Madness im Spiegel englischer Zeitungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts Morgan, Holly Adoptions Across Borders, Children and Diaspora: Representations of Transnational Adoption in Diasporic Indian Women’s Writing Patchett, Emma The Right to Free Movement: Law, Literature, and the Roma Diaspora Dimitrova,Zornitsa Expression as Mimesis and Event Merk, Annika The Contemporary Dramatic Monologue in Britain and Ireland Heuer, Caren Hermanns Nation Lucht, Bente Writing Empire: Latin Quotations in Texts on the British Empire Ile, Onyebuchi James The Nature of Ethnic Conflicts and their Representation in Postcolonial Nigerian Literature. A Case Study of Literature for Conflict Resolution Candraningrum, Dewi The Challenge of Teaching Englisch in Muhammadiyah University (1958-2005): Mainstreaming Gender through Post Colonial Muslim women Writers Supervised Habilitations
Thiemann, Anna Transatlantic Scenes of Subjection: Staging Early Modern Slavery Quabeck, Franziska Oddities - Alterity, Authenticity and *Anerkennung* in Unauthentic Narration Köhler, Sigrid G. HOMO CONTRACTUALIS. Das Regime des Vertrags und die Romantik Kläger, Florian 'Reading into the Stars': Metaphorized Cosmology and the Autopoetics of the Contemporary Novel Kern-Stähler, Annette "A Missionary Zeal": Besatzung, Entnazifizierung und Umerziehung als Aktionsfeld und im Geschichtsbewusstsein britischer Literaten