Bernd Engler

Bernd Engler (2008)

Bernd Engler (born April 21, 1954 in Speyer ) is a German Americanist and literary scholar . Since 2006 he has been the rector of the University of Tübingen .

Life

Engler studied English, German and philosophy at the University of Freiburg and the University of Kent in England . After he had already passed his first state examination there and received a Magister Artium , he received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1983 and completed his habilitation there in 1989. 1989/90 he was visiting professor at the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . In 1990 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation. In 1992 he followed a call to the University of Tübingen, where he holds the chair for American literature and culture and heads the department for American studies. In the scientific field, Engler made contributions to narrative theory .

On April 27, 2006 he was elected Rector of the University of Tübingen. Bernd Engler took up his post on October 1, 2006. He was re-elected in 2012 and 2018.

In 2007 he was accepted as a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . He has been President of the Görres Society since September 27, 2015 .

Publications (selection)

• The American Ode. Investigations of the history of the genus . Schöningh, Paderborn 1985, ISBN 3-506-70814-7 (dissertation)
• Fiction and reality. For the narrative conveyance of knowledge-skeptical positions in Hawthorne and Melville . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-428-07070-4 (habilitation thesis).
• with Kurt Müller (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of American Authors . Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01654-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Engler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Engler on the website of the University of Tübingen, English Seminar, American Studies Department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release from the University of Tübingen . On: uni-tuebingen.de from December 10, 2018.