Christoph Bode

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Christoph Bode (2010)

Christoph Bode (born May 13, 1952 in Siegen ) is an English and American studies specialist and holds the chair for modern English literature at the Department of English and American Studies in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

School and study

Christoph Bode is the second child of the private school director and university lecturer for English and American studies Dr. Adolf Bode and his wife Ute Bode, b. Kiss. In 1971 Bode passed the Abitur at the Siegen Municipal High School, now the Löhrtor High School , and then studied English , geography and philosophy / pedagogy at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the University College, Cardiff, Great Britain. The 1976 state examination was followed by a doctorate (English, American, philosophy / pedagogy) and community service (1978 to 1980).

Professional background

From 1977 Bode was employed at the English seminar at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, where he completed his habilitation in 1986 and first worked as an academic adviser and from mid-1989 as a university lecturer. From October 1989 to March 1990 he took over the position of professor for English and American literature at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and was appointed adjunct professor in Kiel in 1991. In 1992 he was offered a professorship for English and American literary studies at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . In 1997 Bode was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 2000 he was offered a professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the same time a further professorship for “Modern English Literature” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with appointment as full professor in April 2001. Since then he has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley (2012), at Tsinghua University in Beijing (2015) and at the University of Sichuan, Chengdu , (also 2015). In 2016 he was a Mercator Fellow at the Graduate College "Model Romanticism" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Focus in research and teaching

Bode 's research focuses on British and European romantic literature , poetry and narrative theory, and British travel literature . From 2001 to 2013 he was the first chairman of the Society for English Romanticism (since 2013 second chairman with the responsibility for “International Relations”) and is committed to closer networking between German and English research on romanticism with the British and American (British Association for Romantic Studies or North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) as well as the Scandinavian (Nordic Association for Romantic Studies) and French (Société d'Etudes Romantiques Anglaises). Between 2000 and 2006, Bode was European Convener at the Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere , England. Since 1997 he has organized or helped organize 16 international conferences and workshops, all in the field of romanticism research.

Memberships

Bode is a member of more than twelve academic associations, including

  • Full member of the Academia Europaea (2011)
  • German Anglists' Association (on the Advisory Board 1998–2002)
  • North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
  • British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)

Grants and awards

  • 2007 Christensen Fellowship of the University of Oxford (Visiting Fellow of St Catherine's College)
  • 2007 admission as Corresponding Fellow to the English Association of Great Britain
  • 2007/2008 research year for the project Discursive Construction of Subjective and National Identity in English Romanticism , funded by the German Research Foundation
  • 2008/2009 research year for the History of English Travel Literature project , financed by the federal government's Excellence Initiative .
  • 2009–2012 Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for the research project Narrating Futures .
  • 2013 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2015 Walker Ames Lecture Award from the University of Washington, Seattle
  • 2015 Admission to the High-End Foreign Experts Program of the People's Republic of China
  • 2015 Renewed Fellowship from St Catherine's College, Oxford
  • 2016 Mercator Fellow at the Graduate College "Model Romanticism" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Expert and consultant work

Bode led verification activities by the German Research Foundation , the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the Volkswagen Foundation , Austrian Academy of Sciences , studienstiftung , the European Research Council , Cusanuswerk , European Romantic Review, the publisher Routledge and the Leverhulme Trust. He was a member of the University Council of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg from 2007 to 2011 and has been a member of the Main Examination Committee G of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture since 2004 .

Publications

Monographs

Sixteen monographs including

  • Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1985. (Text and history: model analyzes for English and American literature, vol. 13; utb 1312); 2nd, improved edition 1993.
  • Aesthetics of Ambiguity: On the Function and Meaning of Ambiguity in Modern Literature , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1988. (Concepts of Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 4).
  • The novel : An introduction , Francke, Tübingen 2005.
  • Self-justifications: Discursive construction of identity in British Romanticism 1: Subjective identity , Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2008.
  • Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment (together with Rainer Dietrich), Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013.

Co-editing

Eight editions, including together with

  • Hugo Keiper and Richard J. Utz, Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives , Amsterdam / Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997. (Critical Studies, Vol. 10).
  • Ulrich Broich, The Twenties in Great Britain: Literature and Society in a Tense Decade , Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.
  • Sebastian Domsch, British and European Romanticisms: Selected Papers from the Munich Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism , Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.

Series Editor

  • Since 2001 as a board member of the Society for English Romanticism, co-editor of the series "Studies on English Romanticism" in the publishing house Die Blaue Eule, from spring 2005 at WVT Trier.
  • Since 2007 co-editor of the series "Munich University Writings: Texts and Studies on English Philology" at Peter Lang Verlag. (Since 2016 "Munich Studies in English" = MUSE)
  • Since 2007 co-editor of the series "Literature - Culture - Theory" at Ergon Verlag, Würzburg.

Essays

Bode has published over 70 articles, including

  • Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! ': Notes on the Non-teachability of Poetry , Anglistik & Englischunterricht Vol. 53 (1994): Teachable Poems from Sting to Shelley, 139–152.
  • Beyond / Around / Into One's Own: Travel Literature as a Paradigm of World Experience , Poetica 26: 1–2 (1994), 70–87.
  • English literature and / or cultural studies? , Anglia 114: 3 (1996) 396-424.
  • Azores High, Iceland Low: The Location and Dynamics of Shakespeare's Meaning and Value , Historicizing / Contemporizing Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Böhm, eds. Christoph Bode, Wolfgang Klooss, Trier: WVT, 2000, 25–51.
  • Poststructuralist Pooh , Anglistentag 2000 Berlin: Proceedings, ed. Jürgen Schlaeger, Trier: WVT, 2001, 343–354.
  • Europe , Romanticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe, Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2005, 126-136.
  • "I have traveled a good deal in Concord": Romantic Cosmopolitanism and the Quest for the Universal in the Particular , Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 7 (2007), 259-280.

Reviews, reviews, lexicon articles

Bode has written over 50 reviews, lexicon articles and handbook entries, focusing on romanticism and literary theory.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Christoph Bode. Academia Europaea, accessed June 20, 2017 .
  2. Press release Narrating Futures

credentials

Web links

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