Subjekte, Sprachgewalt, Hegemonie. Sprachreflexion in der deutschen und russischen Gegenwartsprosa

Manuel's PhD thesis investigates forms and functions in metalinguistic reflections contained in selected prose work from two German and two Russian authors (Kurt Drawert, Gert Neumann, Vladimir Sorokin and Valerij Votrin). It highlights aspects of linguistic philosophy and thereby distinguishes itself from existing research which mainly focusses on the intersection of language and politics.
The theoretical and methodological framework combines Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffes's theories of hegemony with approaches based on language philosophy, including theories from Platon, Heidegger as well as Derrida.

Subject: Modern German Literature, modern Russian Literature
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf; Prof. Dr. Alfred Sproede; Prof. Dr. Vladimir Novikov (MGU, Public University of Moscow)

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  Gastprofessor am Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Juniorprofessur Westslawische Literaturen, seit 2023 Juniorprofessur für ost- und westslawistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)

   

• Academic Career

  2017	Disputatio: Die unwiderstehliche Gewalt der Sprache. Metasprachliche Reflexion in der deutschen und russischen Gegenwartsprosa (1989-2013) zwischen Politik und Sprachphilosophie
  07/2016	Research Stay at University of Warsaw
  2013 - 2016	Temporary lecturer at WWU Münster's Germanistisches Institut
  2011 - 2017	Doctoral studies at WWU Münster's Graduate School Practices of Literature
  08/2011 - 09/2011	Scholarship at FU Berlin: Final editting of master thesis „Gegen die Wirklichkeit. Denken und Schreiben Thomas Bernhards“ unter der Betreuung von Dr. Bernd Blaschke (Peter Szondi Institut)
  2005	Erasmus scholarship at Freie Universität Berlin
  2002 - 2009	Student of German and Slavonic Studies at Univeristy of Pisa (Italy)