Christoph Houswitschka
Christoph Houswitschka (born June 8, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Anglist .
Christoph Houswitschka studied English and German philology at the Universities of Regensburg and Urbana-Champaign , Illinois , from 1982 to 1987 . During his studies he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He received his doctorate at the University of Regensburg in English literary studies on the subject of politics and love in the literature of the English late Middle Ages using the example of Thomas Malory's ' Morte Darthur ' . In 2001 he completed his habilitation with a paper on The Legal Culture of the High Treason Trials of 1794 and the Literature of Democratization at the TU Dresden ; he was supported by the Thyssen Foundation.
He holds the chair for English literary studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and was dean and vice dean of the faculties of humanities and cultural studies and language and literature studies. He is also an adjunct professor at Jiaotong University in Xi'an (China).
His work focuses on Arthurian literature , reform literature of the late 18th century and contemporary literature.
Since 2004 he has been a member of the DFG research group “Generational Consciousness and Generational Conflicts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” at the University of Bamberg.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Houswitschka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Site by Christoph Houswitschka at the University of Bamberg
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| SURNAME | Houswitschka, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Anglist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |