Stephanie Catani

Stephanie Catani (* 1975 ) is a German literary scholar.

Life

Catani studied modern German literature, Italian and Spanish studies at the Universities of Bochum and Seville (1999 BA degree / 2001 Master’s degree ). After completing her doctorate (2001–2004) at the University of Würzburg (supervisor: Peter-André Alt ) as a scholarship holder of the State Graduate Funding North Rhine-Westphalia and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , she worked from 2005 to 2017 as a research assistant at the Chair of Modern German Literature (Head: Friedhelm Marx ) in Bamberg . From 1999 to 2005 she was an editor, proofreader and reviewer for educational non-fiction and fiction publishers (Grafit, Rowohlt, Verlag an der Ruhr). After completing the habilitation process in 2014 with the study “History in Text. Concept of history and historicization process in contemporary German-language literature ”, she was granted the license to teach the subject of“ Modern German Literature ”and the University of Bamberg was awarded the Habilitation Prize in 2017 as a visiting professor for Modern German Literature at the University of Augsburg . In August 2017 she was offered a chair for modern German literary studies / media studies at Saarland University . Since 2018 she has been head of the Chair for Modern German Literature / Media Studies.

Her main research interests are creative artificial intelligence: art, media and creativity under the sign of artificial intelligence, cultural studies approaches: gender, diversity, transculturality, intermediality: literature and film, literature and photography, literature and (digital) media, interdisciplinarity: history and literature, medical Knowledge and literature, literature and psychotraumatology, contemporary literature and literature of the early 19th century (Hoffmann, Kleist) and modernity (Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Döblin, etc.).

Fonts (selection)

• The fictional gender. Femininity in anthropological designs and literary texts between 1885 and 1925 . Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3099-0 .
• as editor with Friedhelm Marx: Families - Genders - Power. Relationships in Ulrike Draesner's work . Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0342-3 .
• as editor with Friedhelm Marx and Julia Schöll: Art of Memory, Poetics of Love. The narrative work of Hanns-Josef Ortheil . Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0466-6 .
• Story in text. Concept of history and historicization process in contemporary German-language literature . Tübingen 2016, ISBN 3-7720-8568-7 .
• together with Julia Schöll (Ed.): Sibylle Berg . Heft 225, Edition Text and Criticism, München 2020, ISBN 978-3-96707-064-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephanie Catani in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Catani