Franz Meier (English studies)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tu-braunschweig.de ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
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