Barbara Korte

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Barbara Korte (* 1957 in Cologne ) is a German English studies specialist with a focus on literary and cultural studies .

Career

After doctorate (1985) and habilitation (1992) at the University of Cologne , she taught as a professor for English literature at the TU Chemnitz and the University of Tübingen and has been at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since October 2002 . She is a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Scientific focus

After writing his habilitation thesis on body language in literature (published in German in 1993, in English in 1997), Korte worked on the genre of British short stories. However, she has increasingly turned to research areas in cultural and media culture studies and has worked here in various research associations: on the cultural production and reception of the First World War in Great Britain and the representation of war correspondents (Collaborative Research Center 437 War Experiences, Tübingen 2002-2008), on popular historical culture (DFG Research group 875 “Historical living worlds: history in popular knowledge cultures of the present”, Freiburg, 2007-2013), on cultures of the heroic (Collaborative Research Center 948 “Heroes-Heroisinations-Heroisms”, Freiburg, since 2012) and on the English travelogue and its transformation in new media forms ( VW Research College "New Travel-New Media", 2018–2022).

Current research interests are 19th century British magazine culture and British television culture today.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Body Language in Literature . (= Theory / Culture ). University of Toronto Press, Toronto / Buffalo / London 1997, ISBN 0-8020-0706-6 .
  • English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations . Macmillan, Basingstoke 2000, ISBN 0-333-77041-2 .
  • [with Claudia Sternberg]. Bidding for the mainstream? Black and Asian Film in Britain since the 1990s . Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2004, ISBN 90-420-1038-X .
  • Represented Reporters: Images of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fiction . transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1062-8 .
  • with Eva Ulrike Pirker: Black History White History: Britain's Historical Program between Windrush and Wilberforce. transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1935-5 .
  • with Georg Zipp: Poverty in Contemporary Literature: Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2014, ISBN 978-1-137-42928-5 .

Editorships

  • with Hartmut Berghoff, among others: The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600–2000 . Palgrave, Basingstoke 2002, ISBN 0-333-97114-0 .
  • with Ann-Marie Einhaus: The Penguin Book of First World War Stories . (= Penguin Classics ). Penguin, Harmondsworth 2007, ISBN 978-0-14-144215-0 .
  • with Sandra Schaur and Stefan Welz: British literature in the GDR . (= ZAA Monographs ). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3920-1 .
  • with Sylvia Paletschek : Popular History Now and Then: International Perspectives . transcript, Bielfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2007-8 .
  • with Frédéric Regard : Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain . (= Culture & Conflict. Vol. 5). de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-036574-0 .
  • with Stefanie Lethbridge: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800: Case Studies . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2017. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-319-33557-5
  • with Stefanie Lethbridge: Victorian Periodicals Review. Special Issue: Borders and Border Crossings in the Victorian Periodical Press, 51.3 (Fall 2018). ISSN  1712-526X .
  • with Simon Wendt and Nicole Falkenhayner: Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture . London / New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-367-20665-9 .
  • with Laura Lojo Rodriguez: Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story . Springer Nature [Palgrave Macmillan], Cham 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-30358-7 .
  • Journal of English and American Studies. (ZAA). ISSN  2196-4726 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidelberg Academy of Sciences: Barbara Korte. In: The members of the HAdW since it was founded. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ SFB 437: Subproject D5: “Construction of the experiences of the First World War between modernity and tradition” (2002–2004). Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ SFB 437: Subproject D10: "Reports and Experiences: American War Correspondents' Reports on the Gulf War (1991) and the Iraq War (2003)" (2005–2008). Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ DFG research group 875: Stories for many: Historical worlds in family, women's and children's magazines in Victorian England. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ SFB 948: Subproject D15: “The Heroic in British TV Series of the 21st Century: Discourses and Aesthetic Strategies in a Popular Medium” (2016–2020). Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ SFB 948: Subproject C3: “Imaginary Competition: 'Exotic' Heroes in English and German Drama in the Late 17th Century” (2012–2016). Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ SFB 948: Subproject C4: “Semantic competition and medial staging of the heroic in British magazines between 1850 and 1900” (2012–2016). Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Scientific management. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, accessed on June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Korte, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne