Eva Geulen

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Eva Geulen (2012)

Eva Geulen (born July 3, 1962 in Bergneustadt ) is Director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin and Professor of European History of Culture and Knowledge at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Geulen, daughter of the Münster literary scholar and university professor Hans Geulen , studied German and philosophy in Freiburg and Baltimore , USA. In 1989 she received her doctorate with the title Wortörig against Will. Representation problems and linguistic reflection in Adalbert Stifter's prose at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Geulen has received research grants from the Mellon Foundation (Stanford University) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . She has taught at the University of Rochester and New York University .

From 2003 to 2012 Geulen held the chair for modern German literary studies at the German Department of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . From 2012 to 2015 she was a professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Since August 1, 2015, she has succeeded Sigrid Weigel as Director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research and Professor of European History of Culture and Knowledge at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Her research focuses on German literature from the 18th to the 20th century, especially narrative prose from the 19th century. She deals with literary theory , gender studies and aesthetics .

Eva Geulen is co-editor of the magazine for German philology .

Publications (selection)

  • Wordless against will. Representation problems and language reflection in Adalbert Stifter's prose. Iudicium-Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-89129-457-3 (also: Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University, dissertation, 1989).
  • Time to display. Walter Benjamin's “The work of art in the age of its technical reproducibility”. In: MLN. Vol. 107, No. 3 = German Issue , 1992, ISSN  0026-7910 , pp. 580-605, JSTOR 2904947 .
  • Adalbert Stifter's children's art. Three case studies. In: German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history . Vol. 67, No. 4, 1993, pp. 648–688, (again in: Ulrich Stuve (Hrsg.): Der imaginierte Findling. Studies on Kaspar Hauser's reception (= contributions to recent literary history. Volume 3, Vol. 143). Winter, Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 3-8253-0331-4 , pp. 123-143).
  • The end of art. Readings of a rumor according to Hegel (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft. 1554). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-29177-7 .
  • Provocation as a literary history. On Heinz Schlaffer's The Brief History of German Literature. In: Critical Edition . No. 10 = Industry , 2003, pp. 63–65 .
  • Giorgio Agamben for introduction (= introduction. 304). Junius, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-88506-604-1 .
  • As editor with Nicolas Pethes: Beyond Utopia and Unmasking. Cultural studies study of the educational discourse of modernity (= Rombach Sciences. Litterae series. 139). Rombach, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7930-9467-8 .
  • Also: Run away. In: Aris Fioretos (ed.): Babel. For Werner Hamacher. Engeler, Basel et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-938767-55-9 , pp. 198-203.

Web links

notes

  1. ^ University of Frankfurt
  2. ^ Anna-Lena Scholz: Literature in the center of society. In: Der Tagesspiegel from July 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ About some protagonists “on the run” in literature.
personal data
SURNAME Geulen, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergneustadt