Andrea Geier

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Andrea Geier (* 1972 ) is a German literary scholar and professor at the University of Trier .

Life

Andrea Geier studied modern German literature, general rhetoric, philosophy and empirical cultural studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In 2003 she received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen. In 2004 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the graduate school “Identity and Difference. Gender Construction and Interculturality (18th-21st Century) ”at the University of Trier, and from 2004 to 2009 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Andrea Geier has been Professor of Modern German Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Trier since 2009. Since 2010 she has been on the board of the Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies.

Geier has been the 2nd chairwoman of the Marburger Literaturforum eV since July 2005

Andrea Geier writes regularly for newspapers and magazines such as the online magazine Geschichte der Gegenwart or the magazine Republik and can be heard in interviews on public radio.

Publications (selection)

  • Ethnicity and gender. (Post-) colonial negotiations in history, art and media. ed. from the Research Training Group Identity and Difference. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005.
  • Violence and gender. Discourses in German-language prose from the 1980s and 1990s. Tübingen 2005.
  • Literature in media change. In: Communications of the German Association of Germanists. 55th volume, issue 3, 2008, ed. together with Dietmar Till .

Visiting professorships

  • 1 / 2011–5 / 2011: Max Kade Visiting Professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (spring term).
  • 2011 to 2015 and 2017: several guest lectureships at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Debrecen (Hungary).
  • 3 / 2016–6 / 2016: Max Kade visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA) (spring term).
  • 2019: Max Kade Visiting Professorship at Georgetown University , Washington DC (USA) (spring term).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for Postcolonial and Gender Studies, University of Trier. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Geier & Paula-Irene Villa: Who's Afraid of Listening? Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Geier, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1972