Franz Meier (English studies)
Franz Josef Meier (born September 11, 1958 in Landshut ; † February 14, 2011 ) was a German English and German studies scholar.
Life
Franz Meier studied English literature and German studies on master's at the University of Regensburg . There he received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on poetry by William Carlos Williams . Then he completed his habilitation in 1997 while working as an assistant for English literature and cultural studies. Research stays took him to the British Library in 1996/1997 . As a private lecturer , he represented chairs at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and at the University of Munich .
From the beginning of the winter semester 2005/2006 until his death in a car accident on February 14, 2011, he was initially a private lecturer and then a professor at the English seminar at the TU Braunschweig .
His research focuses on literature and culture from the 18th to the 20th century, in particular the culture of sensibility , the culture of horror and sensational novels and the Anglo-American poetry of postmodernism , as well as the cultural history of sexuality and death / gender studies as well the popular culture and the intermediality . Since 2009 he has been a full member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .
Fonts
- The Early Thing Poetry William Carlos Williams: Genesis and Poetology. (= Language and literature: Regensburg works on English and American studies. Volume 35). Dissertation . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-43258-5 .
- Sexuality and Death: A Link between Themes in English Horror and Sensational Literature and its Socio-Cultural Context (1764–1897). Habilitation thesis . (= Book series of the Anglia. Volume 36). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-42136-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Meier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz Meier's website at dr-franz-meier.de
- Short biography on mediatingidentities.de (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ tu-braunschweig.de ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
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SURNAME | Meier, Franz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meier, Franz Josef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Anglist and Germanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Landshut |
DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 2011 |