Alfred Hornung
Alfred Hornung (* 1945 ) is a former German Americanist .
Life
After receiving his doctorate in Würzburg in 1977 , he was a research assistant there from 1977 to 1986. After his habilitation in 1985 at the University of Würzburg , he was a substitute professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1986, taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University from 1986 to 1987 and represented American studies at the University of Bamberg from 1987 to 1988 . Since 1988 he has been a university professor (C 4) at the University of Mainz and turned down offers (1988 University of Hamburg , 1993 University of Konstanz ).
His research interests are Transnational American Studies, Transcultural Life Writing, Transcultural Ecology, Life Writing, and Life Sciences.
Fonts (selection)
- Narrative structure and differentiation of text types. The texts of the Muckraking Movement (1902–1912) . Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-476-00397-3 .
- Lexicon of American Literature . Mannheim 1992, ISBN 3-411-07701-8 .
- Jack London . Adventure of life . Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 3-650-40157-6 .
- as editor: Obama and transnational American studies . Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 3-8253-6675-8 .
literature
- as editors Naja Gernalzick and Heike C. Spickermann: Developing transnational American studies. For Alfred Hornung on his seventieth birthday . Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 3-8253-6950-1 .
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| SURNAME | Hornung, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Americanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |