Anita Traninger

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Anita Traninger (* 1969 in Amstetten ) is an Austrian literary scholar with a focus on Romance literatures and rhetoric. She has been a professor at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin since 2015 .

Life

Anita Traninger received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1999 . In support of her doctoral project, she received a DOC grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Dr. Günter Findel grant from the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel . The dissertation, published in 2001 under the title Effortless Science. Rhetoric and Lullism was published in the German-speaking countries of the early modern period , was awarded the Figdor Prize for Linguistics and Literature Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2003.

In 1998, before completing her dissertation, she took over the management of the public relations department in the Austrian Chamber of Public Accountants (today: Chamber of Tax Advisors and Auditors ). In 2000 she moved to the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) as a project coordinator, where she was promoted to Managing Director in 2001.

In 2004 she took up a position as a research assistant (C1) at the Free University of Berlin in the work area of Klaus W. Hempfer , who was then First Vice President. Under the leadership of Hempfer, she participated in the TOPOI Cluster of Excellence and the Collaborative Research Center 447 “Cultures of the Performative”.

From 2009 Traninger built up the Collaborative Research Center 980 "Epistems in Motion: Knowledge Transfer from the Old World to the Early Modern Age" as a scientific coordinator. In 2011 she was nominated as an Einstein Junior Fellow by the Presidium of Freie Universität. As a result of an international selection process, she was a Fellow of the Einstein Foundation Berlin from 2012 to 2015 .

In 2015 she was appointed to a temporary W2 professorship for Romance Philology with a focus on Gallo Romance and Hispanic Studies at Freie Universität, and in 2018 she was appointed to a full-time professorship with the same denomination and a focus on rhetoric.

Anita Traninger holds a number of functions at Freie Universität. She is deputy spokeswoman for the Dahlem Humanities Center and a member of the board of directors of the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies and the Forum Medieval - Renaissance - Early Modern Times. In 2017 she was awarded the University's Central Teaching Prize.

She is a member of the board of directors of the Collaborative Research Center 980 “Epistemes in Motion” and leads a sub-project on the question of the epistemic genre in the French learned societies of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the DFG research group “Discursivations of New” she heads a sub-project on the prose novel of the Spanish Siglo de Oro with a focus on Lope de Vega. In September 2018, the Cluster of Excellence 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”, which she conceived and prepared together with the English scholar Andrew James Johnston, was selected for funding as the only literary project in the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.

Publications

  • Effortless Science. Lullism and rhetoric in the German-speaking countries of the early modern period , Munich: Fink 2001 (Humanist Library Series I, 50).
  • Vienna. History of a city. The early modern residence (16th to 18th centuries) , ed. by Karl Vocelka and Anita Traninger. = Vol. 2 of Vienna. History of a City , 3 vol., Ed. by Ferdinand Opll and Peter Csendes , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2003.
  • Dynamics of Knowledge, ed. by Klaus W. Hempfer and Anita Traninger, Freiburg i.Br .: Rombach 2007 (Scenae 6).
  • The dialogue in the discourse field of its time - from antiquity to the Enlightenment , ed. by Klaus W. Hempfer and Anita Traninger, Stuttgart: Steiner 2010 (text and context 26).
  • Fictions of the Factual in the Renaissance , ed. by Ulrike Schneider and Anita Traninger, Stuttgart: Steiner 2010 (text and context 32).
  • Disputation, declamation, dialogue. Media and genres of European knowledge negotiations between scholasticism and humanism , Stuttgart: Steiner 2012 (Text & Context 33).
  • The Emergence of Impartiality , ed. by Kathryn Murphy and Anita Traninger, Leiden / Boston: Brill 2014 (Intersections 31).
  • Knowledge in motion. Institution - Iteration - Transfer , ed. by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Anita Traninger, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2015 (Episteme in Motion. Contributions to a transdisciplinary history of knowledge 1). [Open Access]
  • Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period , ed. by Karl AE Enenkel and Anita Traninger, Leiden / Boston: Brill 2015 (Intersections 40).
  • The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture , ed. by Karl AE Enenkel and Anita Traninger, Leiden / Boston: Brill 2018 (Intersections 54).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DOC Funded Persons. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ AWARD WINNERS OF THE OeAW. July 16, 2012, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Anita Traninger. February 4, 2009, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The teaching award of the Free University is awarded for the first time for two projects. January 23, 2018, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ A07. January 22, 2014, accessed February 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ TP June 07, 29, 2016, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ DFG - Ongoing Clusters of Excellence (ExStra). Accessed February 27, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Traninger, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar with a focus on Romance literatures and rhetoric
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten