Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer

Englisches Seminar
Englisches Seminar
Chair of British Studies
Room ES 222
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
T: +49 (0)251- 8 24291
stiersto@uni-muenster.de

NEXT OFFICE HOUR: Tuesday, 12 September, 12:00 (Registration is not necessary; just come and wait your turn).

Please check here regularly for upcoming office hours, as Professor Stierstorfer does not offer weekly office hours but only upon short notice, as his schedule permits.

  • Research Areas

    • Literary Theory and Literary History
    • Law and Literatur
    • Fundamentalism and Literature
    • Diaspora Studies

  • CV

    Education

    Habilitation
    Teacher training and second State Exam
    Doctoral studies, Keble College, University Oxford
    First university degree in English and Theology, University Regensburg
    Undergraduate studies in english and theology at the Universities Oxford and Regensburg

    Positions

    Professor of British Studies, WWU
    Professor of English Studies, HHU Düsseldorf
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Würzburg
    Junior research fellow, St Cross College, University Oxford
    Research scholarship, DFG

    Honors

    Short Stay Visiting Fellowship – Institute of Advanced Studies, Teh University of Western Australia, Perth
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    External Functions

    Corresponding Fellow, English Association, Leicester
    Vice president, Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V
    Vice President, Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft
    President, Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.

    Appointments

    University of Düsseldorf, english studies ()
    University of Münster, British Studies () – accepted
    University of Duisburg-Essen, Anglistik () – rejected

  • Teaching

     

  • 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

  • Publications

    • Gutmann, Thomas; Ortland, Eberhard; Stierstorfer, Klaus (eds.). . Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur / Encyclopedia of Law and Literature .
    • Gutmann, Thomas; Ortland, Eberhard; Stierstorfer, Klaus. . Über diese Enzyklopädie .
    • Gutmann, Thomas; Ortland, Eberhard; Stierstorfer,. . About this Encyclopedia .
    • Achermann, Eric; Stierstorfer, Klaus. . Squaring Law and Literature: Materiality – Comparativity – Constitutivity Law & Literature. doi: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2052598.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Reddig, Jesper, Stierstorfer, Klaus. . ‘Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature.’ In Citizenship, Law and Literature, edited by Koegler, Caroline, Reddig, Jesper, Stierstorfer, Klaus, 1–12. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110749830-001.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Reddig, Jesper, Stierstorfer, Klaus (Eds.): . Citizenship, Law and Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110749830.
    • Klaus Stierstorfer. . ‘Bollywood in Indian Diasporic Literature.’ In Culture and Literature in EFL Education. Relating Theory to Practice, edited by Theresa Summer, 253–264. Berlin: Peter Lang.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘The Revival of Legal Humanism.’ In Law and Literature, edited by Dolin Kieran, 9–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Erdbeer Matthias, Kläger Florian, Klaus Stierstorfer (Eds.): . Literarische Form / Literary Form. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Wilson Janet, Eds. (Eds.): . The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader. New York, London: Routledge.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Brückenkopf Britannien. Zur Europa-Sehnsucht anglophiler Modernisten.“ In Europa gibt es doch ... Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literature, herausgegeben von Kläger Florian, Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina, Hg., 103–114. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
    • Erdbeer Matthias, Kläger Florian, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘La Forma Literaria.’ Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas 56: 45–47.
    • Carpi Daniela, Stierstorfer Klaus (Eds.): . Diaspora, Law and Literature . Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Kläger, F., Stierstorfer, K. . ‘Introduction.’ In Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by Kläger, F., Stierstorfer, K., 1–7. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus. . ‘Fundamentalism and Postcoloniality: Beyond "Westoxification"?’ In The Future of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Zabus, Chantal, 101–113. New York, London: Routledge.
    • Stierstorfer, K., Bhabha, H. . ‘Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on "Diaspora and Home".’ In Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by Kläger, F., Stierstorfer, K., 11–20. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Kläger Florian, Stierstorfer Klaus (Eds.): . Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Schneck P, Stierstorfer K. . ‘“ ‘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 Daniel, H-D, OchsnerM, Hug S E, Eds., 211–218. Springer VDI Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus. . „Robert Chambers (1802-1971): Wie die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung die Evolutionstheorie erfand.“ In Literaturgeschichte. Theorien - Modelle - Praktiken, herausgegeben von Buschmeier,M., Erhart, W., Kauffmann, K., 215–230. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Merk Annika, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), Christopher Monger (dir.).’ In Film (Part I), edited by Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, Vanderbeke Dirk, Volkmann Laurenz, 299–319. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, Vanderbeke Dirk, Volkmann Laurenz, Eds. (Eds.): . Teaching Contemporary Film. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Linguistic Turun.“ In  Metzler Lexikon Literatur- and Kulturtheorie, herausgegeben von Nünning Ansgar, Hg., 447–48. 5th Ed. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Ed. (Hrsg.): . Inhaltliche Anforderungen für Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Studienfach Englisch . Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Pesso-Ciquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction.’ In Burning Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature, edited by Pesso-Ciquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus, eds., vii–xix. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Postmodernism.’ In English and American Studies. Theory and Practice, edited by Middeke Martin, Müller Timo, Wald Christina, Zapf Hubert, Eds., 88–97. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Buringin Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘ 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.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus. . ‘Who Owns Britain? S.T. Coleridge and the National Trust.’ Pólemos. Rivista semestrale di diritto, politica e cultura 2011, No. 1: 173–185.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Law and (which?) Literature: New Directions in Post-Theory?’ Law and Humanities 5, No. 1: 41–51.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; (Eds.): . Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature. New York.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘The British 'Intrusion Play': Victorians and After.’ In Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Ed. (Eds.): . In Quest of Nothing: Selected Essays of Ihab Hassan. New York: AMS Press.
    • Antor Heinz, Merkl Matthias, Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz, Eds. (Eds.): . From Interculturalism to Transculturalism. Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; Stähler, Axel; (Eds.): . Writing Fundamentalism. Newcastle upon Tyne.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Fundamentalism as Other: Readings in Literature, Ethics and Philosophy.’ In Writing Fundamentalism, edited by Stähler Axel, Stierstorfer Klaus, 109–129. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „James Macpherson, The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, hg., 464–465. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, Hg., 68–69. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Einen Jux will er sich machen.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold, Heinz Ludwig, Hg., 43. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „George Lillo, The London Merchant.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, Hg., 157. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Jerome Klapka Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, Hg., 354–355. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „William Cowper, "The Task".“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von ARnold Heinz Ludwig, 147–148. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Geoffrey Chaucer, Troylus and Criseyde.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, Hg., 739–740. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew, or the Merry Beggars.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, 193. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Richard Brome, The City Wit, or the Woman Wears the Breeches”.“ In Kindlers Literaturlexikon, herausgegeben von Arnold Heinz Ludwig, 192–193. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; Gomille, Monika; (Eds.): . Cultures of Translation. Newcastle upon Tyne.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Kern-Stähler Annette (Eds.): . Literary encounters of fundamentalism. A case book . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction.’ In Literary encounters of fundamentalism: A case book, edited by Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus, 7–11. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Antipodean Geographies: Australian ‘Translations’.’ In Cultures of Translation, edited by Gomille Monika, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., 19–31. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. . ‘Introduction.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature: A Casebook, edited by Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., 7–11. h: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus (Eds.): . Literary Encounters of Fundamentalism: A Casebook. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus Ed. (Ed.): . Anglistentag 2007 in Münster. Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz, Eds. (Eds.): . Teaching Contemporary Novels. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics. New York: AMS Press.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; Pesso-Miquel, Catherine; (Eds.): . Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment. New York.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; (Eds.): . Reading the Caribbean. Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean literature und culture . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus, 3–8. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus, 143–160. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Bharucha Nilufer, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43, No. 2: 121–124. doi: 10.1080/17449850701430424.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Laughing Caribbean: Humour in Caribbean Literature and Culture.’ In Reading the Caribbean: Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean literature und culture, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus, 315–335. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; (series editor) (Eds.): . Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire. London.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Welche Kompetenzen benötigt ein Frachreferent? – Erwartungen der Wissenschaftler.“ In Düsseldorfer Beiträge zum 94. Deutschen Bibliothekartag, herausgegeben von Siebers Irmgard, 3–7. Düsseldorf: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag / Self-publishing.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘General Introduction.’ In Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire I: Africa, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus, Strickrodt Silke, ix–xxv. London: Pickering & Chatto.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction.’ In Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire IV: India, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus, ix–xxix. London: Pickering & Chatto.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Michael Frayn: Democracy.’ In Teaching Contemporary Drama. Teaching Contemporary Literature, edited by Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Verbindungslinien: Hongkong, seine englischsprachige Dichtung und Deutschland / Connections: Hong Kong, its Poetry in English, and German.“ In Hongkong. Poems - Gedichte. Englisch - Deutsch, herausgegeben von Gomille Monika, Ho Louise, Stierstorfer Klaus, 45–86. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature.’ In Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment , edited by Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., 3–8. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Michael Frayn: Democracy.’ In Teaching Contemporary Drama, edited by Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz, Eds., 103–120. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Gomille Monika, Ho Shew Wan (Eds.): . A Life Half Understood: West-Östliche Gedichte aus Hong Kong. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Germany Meets Canada.’ Rhine Magazine 13: 30.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘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.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus;. . ‘Vestiges of Nineteenth-Century Biology and Literature: Robert Chambers.’ In Evolving Networks: Biology. Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Jansohn, Christa; Zwierlein, Anne;. London.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; (Eds.): . Return to postmodernism. Theory - Travel Writing - Autobiography. Festschrift in honour of Ihab Hassan . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz (Hrsg.): . Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Einleitung: Anmerkungen zur Interdisziplinarität der Kulturwissenschaften.“ In Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär, herausgegeben von Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz, 9–18. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘‘Postmortemism’: Malcolm Bradbury's Legacy in To the Hermitage.’ Études Anglaises 58, No. 2005/2: 154–165.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Introduction: Canada from European Perspectives.“ In Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture, herausgegeben von Antor Heinz, Bölling Gordon, Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus, 1–7. Berlin, New York (NY): De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘‘Capable of Great Improvement’: Catherine Parr Traill’s Images of Canada in The Young Emigrants (1826).’ In Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture, edited by Antor Heinz, Bölling Gordon, Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus, 55–65. Berlin, New York (NY): De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Antipodean Geographies: John Rastell, Ben Jonson, and Richard Brome.’ In Reading Without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age. A Tribute to Gilbert Debusscher, edited by Den Tandt Christophe, 273–290. Bruxelles u.a.: Lang.
    • Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz (Eds.): . Teaching Contemporary Drama. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Antor Heinz, Bölling Gordon, Kern-Stähler Annette, Stsierstorfer Klaus, Eds. (Eds.): . Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz (Eds.): . Teaching postmodernism - postmodern teaching. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Nursery Rhymes and the Teaching of English: An Integrative Approach.’ In Canadian, Literary and Didactic Mosaic. Essays in Honour of Albert-Reiner Glaap on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday , edited by Heinze Michael, Müller-Schneck Elke, Eds., 175–189. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Literary Theory – Interpretation – Education: A Postmodern Reconsideration of Traditional Hierarchies.’ In Teaching Postmodernism -- Postmodern Teaching, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz, 45–59. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz. . ‘Teahcing Postmodernism -- Postmoderni Teaching. An Introduction.’ In Teaching Postmodernism -- Postmodern Teaching, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus, Volkmann Laurenz, Eds., 9–24. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • Glaap Albert-Reiner, Stierstorfer Klaus, Ed. and introd. . ‘Canada in Focus.’ Anglistik 15, No. 2: 7–69.
    • Knight Charles, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Horace Wigan (1815/16-1885).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David, xxx.
    • Knight Joseph, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Daniel Terry (1789-1829).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David, xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Knight Joseph, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Richard John Smith (1786-1855).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David, xxx.
    • Knight Joseph, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Charley Selby (c.1802-1863).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David, xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Courtney W.P., Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Leman Thomas Tertius Rede (1799-1832).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David, xxx.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘John Oxenford (1812-1877).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David, xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Knight Joseph, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘William Henry Oxberry (1808-1852).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Matthews H.C.G., xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Knight Joseph, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Thomas Knight (d. 1820).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Matthews H.C.G., xxx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Knight Joseph, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Richard Jones (1779-1851).’ In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Matthew H.C.G., XXX. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Christa Jansohn, In the Footsteps of Queen Victoria. Wege zum Viktorianischen Zeitalter (Münster: LIT, 2002).’ Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 156, No. 2: 433–435.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Göttlicher Plot and menschliche Story: Die Zufallsproblematik im Romanwerk Henry Fieldings.“ Anglia 121, No. 1: 4–31.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; (Eds.): . Beyond Postmodernism. Reassessment in Literature, Theory and Culture. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
    • Gomille Monika, Stierstorfer Klaus (Eds.): . Xenophobic Memories: Otherness in Postcolonial Constructions of the Past . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus; (Hrsg.): . Deutschlandbilder im Spiegel anderer Nationen. Literatur, Presse, Film, Funk, Fernsehen. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Framing Postmodernism: Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, and Abdulrazak Gurnah.’ BELL.Beligian Journal for English Language and Literature, Special Issue: “Beyond: New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching n.s. 1: 135–143.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Canadian Recontextualizations of a German Nightmare: Henry Kreisel’s Novels.’ In Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture , edited by Stierstorfer Klaus et al, 194–204. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Das Deutschlandbild in Kanada.“ In Deutschlandbilder, herausgegeben von Stierstorfer Klaus, Ed., 191–205. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „‚Deutschland’ als Produkt von ‚Bildern’?“ In Deutschlandbilder, herausgegeben von Stierstorfer Klaus, Ed., 7–17. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism's Precarious Footholds in Novels by Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift.’ In Beyond Postmodernism, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus, Ed., 213–234. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Introduction: Beyond Postmodernism – Contingent Referentiality?’ In Beyond Postmodernism , edited by Stierstorffer Klaus, Ed., 1–10. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Reviewing Postmodernism at ESSE-6.’ The European English Messenger 12, No. 1: 78–82.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Matching Orphaned Socks: Cross-Cultural Memories in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels.’ In Xenophobic Memories, edited by Gomille Monika, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., 171–185. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘1997: The Decolonization of Hong Kong in Contemporary Fiction in English.’ In Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia, edited by Ahrens Rüdiger, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., 173–180. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Antor Heinz, Stierstorfer Klaus (Eds.): . Refractions of Germany in Canadian Culture and Ltierature. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
    • Ahrens Rüdiger, Parker David, Stierstorfer Klaus, Tam Kwok-kan Eds. (Eds.): . Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia: Appropriations, Continuities, Contexts. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Revíew, Rudolf Weiss, Der Januskopf der traditionellen Moderne: Die Dramenästhetik St. John Hankins and John Galsworthys (Trier: WVT, 2002).’ ZAA 4: 462–464.
    • Stierstorfer K. . ‘'A novel intensified': The late dramatic work of Henry James.’ Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 52, No. 4: 513–526.
    • Stierstorfer K. . „Geschichte und Literaturgeschichte: Vergleichende Problemstellungen.“ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 50, No. 2: 113–128.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „John Henry Newman.“ In  Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, herausgegeben von Nünning Ansgar, Hg., 427. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Thomas Babington Macaulay.“ In  Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, herausgegeben von Nünning Ansgar, Hg., 363–364. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Literatur und interkulturelle Kompetenz.“ In Interkulturelle Kompetenz, herausgegeben von Volkmann Laurenz, Stierstorfer Klaus, Gehring Wolfgang, Hgg., 119–141.
    • Volkmann Laurenz, Stierstorfer Klaus, Gehring Wolfgang, Hgg. (Hrsg.): . Interkulturelle Kompetenz. Stuttgart: Gunter Narr.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Marion Spies, Religiöse Lyrik in Australien. Rezeption and Funktionalisierung theologischer and philosophischer Prätexte (Hamburg: Kovac, 2001).’ ZAA 30, No. 2: 217–219.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Cathy Shuman, Pedagogical Economies. The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001).’ Anglia 120: 613–616.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Revíew, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Das Deutschlandbild in der amerikanischen Literatur, (Darmstadt: Wiss.Buchgesellschaft, 1998).“ GRM 52, No. 3: 429–431.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001).’ Anglistik 13, No. 2: 149–153.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Auf diesem Felsen werde ich meine Kirche ausbauen. Anglikanischer Hirte mit katholischem Sprengel: Der Bischof von Gibraltar in Europa.’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 26: 52.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus;. . London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies. Oxford.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus;. . Konstruktion literarischer Vergangenheit. Die englische Literaturgeschichte von Warton bis Courthope und Ward . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Kleinhans Martha, Stierstorfer Klaus (Eds.): . Lektüren für das 21. Jahrhundert. Schlüsseltexte europäischer Literatur: England, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Portugal, Rußland . Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Gareth Griffith, African Literature in English: East and West. Longman Literature in English Series (London, New York: Longman, 2000).’ Miscelánea 24: 61–64.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, W. Siebers, U. Zagratzki (eds), Deutsche Schottlandbilder. Beiträge zur Kulturge-schichte (Osnabrück: Rasch, 1998).’ GRM .
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, M. Reif-Hülser (ed.), Boderlands. Negotiating Boandaries in Postcolonial Writing (Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999): Anglistik 12/2 (2001).’ Anglistik 12, No. 2: 208–210.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, The Oxford History of the British Empire, ed. William Roger Louis, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).’ Anglistik 2001, No. 12.1: 151–155.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus, Antor Heinz (Eds.): . English Literatures in International Contexts. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Literature and Liminality in the EFL Classroom.’ In English Literatures in International Contexts, edited by Antor Heinz, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., 29–43. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Antor Heinz, Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘English Literatures: From National to International Contexts.’ In Eng¬lish Literatures in International Contexts, edited by Antor Heinz, Stierstorfer Klaus, Eds., ix–xii. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Rikky Rooksby, Nicholas Shrimpton (eds), The Whole Music of Passion. New Essays on Swinburne (Aldershot/Hants: Scolar P, 1993); Rikky Rooksby, A. C. Swinburne. A Poet's Life (Aldershot/Hants: Scolar P, 1997).’ Symbolism. An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics 2000, No. 1: 384–394.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Markers of Transition: Laughter in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.’ The Chaucer Review 34: 18–37.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘George Lillo's The London Merchant Transmogrified: John Oxenford's My Fellow Clerk (1835) and A Day Well Spent (1836).’ 1650-1850. . Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 5: 243–262.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Intercultural Developments in German EFL Teaching.’ In Intercultural Encounters - Studies in English Literatures, edited by Antor Heinz, Cope Kevin, Eds., 153–168. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘"East Meets West:" Leung Ping-Kwan in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer".’ Anglistik 10, No. 1: 46–52.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘"West Meets East:" Andrew Parkin in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer.’ Anglistik 10, No. 1: 40–46.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘John Oxenford.’ In New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 4: 1800-1900, edited by Joanne Shattock Ed., 2011–2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry, ed. D. Fairer (London: Routledge, Thoemmies, 1998).’ Anglistik 1999, No. 10.2: 227–230.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Chaos Unframed: Victorian Patterns of Farce and Their Twentieth-Century Variations.’ Anglia 116: 299–325.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Life into Theatre - Theatre into Living: Dramatherapy and its Interface with Drama and Theatre Studies.’ In Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Middeke Martin Hg., 159–172. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Review, H.-J. Müllenbrock, The Culture of Contention (München: Fink, 1998).“ Anglistik 1998, No. 9.2.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, C. C. Barfoot (ed), Beyond Pug's Tour. National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 1997).’ Anglistik 1998, No. 9.1: 203–204.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘A Sentimental Appeal to Reason: The London Merchant.’ Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research 2nd ser. 12: 1–18.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘The Mechanics of Victorian Farce: John Oxenford and the 'Well-Made Play'.’ Etudes Anglaises 50: 284–295.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Das englische Drama des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Zum Stand der Forschung.“ GRM 47: 117–131.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus;. . John Oxenford (1812 - 1877) as Farceur and Critic of Comedy Dissertation thesis, Universität Oxford. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien: Lang.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . „Oxenford's _A Day Well Spent_ als Quelle von Nestroys 'Jux': eine Neubewertung.“ Nestroyana 16: 100–111.
    • Stierstorfer Klaus. . ‘Review, Daniel Barrett, T. W. Robertson and the Prince of Wales's Theatre (New York a.o.: Peter Lang, 1995).’ Theatre Notebook 1996, No. 50: 55–56.

  • Supervised Theses

    Supervised Doctoral Studies

    Englische Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert auf dem Index der verbotenen Bücher (Zweitgutachten)
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    Jain, JayanaNation, Home and Identity: An Inquiry into Diasporic Trajectories in Selected ‘Post- 9/11’ Pakistani Novels and Hindi Films
    Dieks, LindaThe Influence of the Gothic on Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis
    John, Stefanieost-Romantic Aesthetics and Constructions of Subjectivity and Marginality in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
    Tronicke, MarlenaSuicide in Shakespeare
    Scharff, Anne-KatrinWahnsinn und Druckerschwärze. Madness im Spiegel englischer Zeitungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
    Morgan, HollyAdoptions Across Borders, Children and Diaspora: Representations of Transnational Adoption in Diasporic Indian Women’s Writing
    Patchett, EmmaThe Right to Free Movement: Law, Literature, and the Roma Diaspora
    Dimitrova,ZornitsaExpression as Mimesis and Event
    Merk, AnnikaThe Contemporary Dramatic Monologue in Britain and Ireland
    Heuer, CarenHermanns Nation
    Writing Empire: Latin Quotations in Texts on the British Empire
    Ile, Onyebuchi JamesThe Nature of Ethnic Conflicts and their Representation in Postcolonial Nigerian Literature. A Case Study of Literature for Conflict Resolution
    Candraningrum, DewiThe Challenge of Teaching Englisch in Muhammadiyah University (1958-2005): Mainstreaming Gender through Post Colonial Muslim women Writers

    Supervised Habilitations

    Transatlantic Scenes of Subjection: Staging Early Modern Slavery
    Oddities - Alterity, Authenticity and *Anerkennung* in Unauthentic Narration
    HOMO CONTRACTUALIS. Das Regime des Vertrags und die Romantik
    'Reading into the Stars': Metaphorized Cosmology and the Autopoetics of the Contemporary Novel
    "A Missionary Zeal": Besatzung, Entnazifizierung und Umerziehung als Aktionsfeld und im Geschichtsbewusstsein britischer Literaten