Beate Neumeier

Beate Neumeier (* 1955) is a German English studies professor and professor of English literature at the University of Cologne . Her focus areas are the English Renaissance, English-language theater, post-colonial studies and gender studies.

She studied English , American and German at the Universities of Würzburg and Manchester and obtained her doctorate in 1984. In 1999 she received her habilitation.

She worked as a professor in Würzburg and Potsdam and as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , Tennessee and at the University of Mississippi in Oxford , Mississippi .

Her research includes running the Center for Australian Studies & Gender Forum . She is also the Chair of the Society for Australian Studies .

Works

• [with Elisabeth Bronfen ]. Gothic renaissance . Manchester: Manchester UP, 2014, ISBN 978-0719088636
• [with Kay Schaffer]. Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia . Cross-Cultures Series. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, ISBN 978-9042037946
• Dichotonies. Gender and Music (American Studies - a Monograph Series). Universitätsverlag Winter 2009, ISBN 978-3825357016
• Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in Britain (Postmodern Studies). Editions Rodopi BV (October 2001), ISBN 9042014377
• Madness and Femininity in the Drama of the English Renaissance. (Habilitation thesis 1993)
• Games and Politics: Aspects of Comedy with Tom Stoppard (PhD 1984)

Web links

• Beate Neumeier on the homepage of the University of Cologne
• Center for Australian Studies Cologne
• Gender Forum
• Neumeier on the website of the Women's and Gender Research Network NRW

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neumeier on the website of the Women's and Gender Research Network NRW
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Beate Neumeier on the homepage of the University of Cologne