Claudia Benthien

Claudia Benthien (* 1965 ) is a German German philologist and cultural scientist .

Life

Claudia Benthien studied German studies with a focus on theater and media , American studies , English studies and art history at the University of Hamburg from 1991 to 1993 , and then studied German and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis . She received her MA degree in 1994 with the work Meiner Augen Sehnsucht. Glance, glare and desire in Hans Henny Jahnn's tragedy “ Medea ” .

From 1994 to 1997, he did a doctoral degree at the Institute for German Literature and at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation . In May 1998 Claudia Benthien started living in the body with her dissertation . Doctorate on literary imagology and historical anthropology of the skin (published under the title Skin. Literary History - Body Images - Border Discourses in Rowohlt's Encyclopedia). From 1998 to 2000 she worked as a post-doctoral student at the Graduate School Body Staging at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin and from 2000 to 2005 as a research assistant at the Institute for German Literature at the Humboldt University.

At the same time, Claudia Benthien conducted research from 2001 to 2003 for her habilitation at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , at the Warburg Institute in London and at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris . In July 2004, Benthien completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty II of the Berlin Humboldt University with the text Barockes Schweigen. Rhetoric and Performativity of the Speechless in the 17th Century.

After a visiting professorship at Emory University in Atlanta (Georgia) in spring 2005, Benthien took over the W3 professorship for modern German literature at the University of Hamburg with a focus on gender research in the context of cultural studies approaches in literary studies in the 2005/2006 winter semester .

In the 2006 summer semester she was a Senior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna as part of the Blicks research focus on Cultures . Further visiting professorships were held in 2008 at the University of California , Berkeley and in 2014 at the University of Washington , Seattle.

From 2014 she has been head of the German Research Foundation-funded project Literarity in Media Art at the University of Hamburg . Together with Ethel Matala de Mazza and Uwe Wirth, she is the series editor of the handbooks on cultural studies philology (HKP), which will be published by De Gruyter-Verlag from 2014.

Awards

• 1999: Tiburtius Prize of the State of Berlin for the dissertation
• 2001 Nord LB / Warburg-Wolfenbüttel Research Fellowship

Publications

Monographs

• Live in the body. Literary Imagology and Historical Anthropology of the Skin. Dissertation. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998
• Skin. History of literature - body images - frontier discourses. . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1999
  • English edition: Skin. On the Cultural Border between Self and the World. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Columbia University Press, New York 2002
• Tribunal of Glances. Cultural theories of shame and guilt and the tragedy around 1800. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2011
• Baroque silence. Rhetoric and Performativity of the Speechless in the 17th Century. Habilitation. Fink, Munich 2006

Editing

• Over borders. Limitation and transgression in literature and aesthetics. Together with Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999.
• Emotionality. On the history of feelings. Together with Anne Fleig, Ingrid Kasten. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000
• Parts of the body. A cultural anatomy. Together with Christoph Wulf. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001
• German studies as cultural studies. An introduction to new theoretical concepts. Together with Hans Rudolf Velten. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2002
• Masculinity as a masquerade. Cultural presentations from the Middle Ages to the present. Together with Inge Stephan. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003
• European discourses in German literature and literary studies. Together with Paul Michael Lützeler, Anne-Marie Saint-Gille. Files of the XI. International Germanist Congress, Paris 2005: 'German Studies in the Conflict of Cultures'. Edited by Jean-Marie Valentin. Vol. 12. Lang, Bern a. a. 2007, pp. 13-185.
• Masterpieces. German-speaking authors in the 20th century. Together with Inge Stephan. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005
• The art of sincerity in the 17th century. Together with Steffen Martus . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006
• Taboo. Interculturality and gender. Together with Ortrud Gutjahr. Fink, Munich 2008
• Paradise. Topographies of longing. Together with Manuela Gerlof. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010
• Freud and the ancient world. Together with Hartmut Böhme, Inge Stephan. Wallstein, Göttingen 2011
• Early modern times - late modern times. Phenomena of the return in literatures and arts from 1970. Together with the Northern Association of German Studies. Lang, Bern a. a. 2011.
• Old news. Methodical and theoretical perspectives of historical "return" using the example of Durs Grünbein's Descartes poem, accompanied by previously unpublished texts by Durs Grünbein together with Steffen Martus. Journal for German Studies, Issue 24.2 (2011), pp. 240–336.

Web links

• University of Hamburg: Claudia Benthien.