Alexander Košenina

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Alexander Košenina (born May 14, 1963 ) is a German philologist and literary critic .

Life

Alexander Košenina studied German and philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin from 1982 to 1988. From 1990 he was a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin and a research assistant from 1995 to 2002; In 1993 he received his doctorate from Hans-Jürgen Schings with a dissertation on "eloquentia corporis" in the 18th century, and in 2001 he received his habilitation. In 2004 he became Professor of German Literature at the University of Bristol , and since 2008 he has been Professor of German Literature from the 17th to 19th centuries at the University of Hanover . Guest professorships have taken him to Japan (Tokyo), China (Guangzhou, Beijing), America (Cincinnati, Columbus, Davis, Madison, Nashville) and Canada (Vancouver). Košenina has been co-editor of the German Studies magazine since 1998 . He writes regularly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): Literary Anthropology. Basic texts for the 'rediscovery of man' . Berlin, Boston: Verlag Walter de Gruyter 2016.
  • Literary anthropology. The rediscovery of man . Berlin, Boston: Verlag Walter de Gruyter 2016.
  • (Ed.): Kriminalfallgeschichten . Munich: Edition Text + Criticism in Richard Boorberg Verlag, Sonderband V / 14, 2014
  • (Ed., With Johannes Birgfeld and Julia Bohnengel): Kotzebues Dramen - A Lexicon . Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover 2011.
  • Flashlights of enlightenment. Heads - reviews - constellations . Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2010.
  • Literary anthropology. The rediscovery of man . Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2008.
  • Karl Philipp Moritz. Literary experiments on the way to the psychological novel . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2006.
  • The learned fool. Scholarly satire since the Enlightenment Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2003.
  • Anthropology and acting. Studies on "eloquentia corporis" in the 18th century . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1995.
  • Ernst Platner's anthropology and philosophy. The "philosophical doctor" and its effect on Johann Karl Wezel and Jean Paul . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1989.
  • with William M. Calder III (Hrsg.): Appointment policy within ancient studies in Wilhelmine Prussia . Frankfurt am Main 1989.

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