Gabriele Schwab

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Gabriele M. Schwab (born March 20, 1946 ) is a literary scholar and professor of comparative literature and literary theory at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Life

Schwab studied English , Romance languages and general literature at the University of Konstanz . She received her doctorate there in 1976 and received her license to teach English / American studies and literary studies in 1982 . She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychoanalysis at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles in 2009 .

In 1986, Schwab was appointed Distinguished Professor at the Chair of Comparative Literature and Theory at the University of California, Irvine. There she was director of the Critical Theory Institute from 1996 to 2002 . Her research areas include: comparative literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, American literature , Indian literature , literary and cultural theory , psychoanalysis, trauma and memory theories, and theories of political ecology .

Schwab received a scholarship from the DFG's Heisenberg program in 1985/1986 . Her work in literary criticism was funded by a Guggenheim grant in 1990/1991 . Since 2007 she has held a Chancellor's research professorship.

Schwab has been visiting professor repeatedly, in 1997/1998 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , in 2001 at the Australian National University in Canberra , in 2009 at the Arizona State University and at the Friedrich Schlegel School of the Free University of Berlin, and in 2010 at Rutgers University .

From October 2012 to August 2013 she was a Fellow at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence at the Cultural Studies College . There she pursued her research project “Marginal Subjectivities: Ecological Politics and the Ghosts of the Future”.

Awards

Schwab received the UCI 's Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award . She has been honorary professor at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) and Shandong University in China since 1999 and 2000 .

Fonts (selection)

Author

  • Imaginary Ethnographies, Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity. Columbia University Press (UP), 2012.
  • Haunting legacies. Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. Columbia UP, 2010.
  • The Mirror and the Killer Queen. Otherness in Literary Language. Indiana UP, 1996.
  • Subjects without selves. Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction. Harvard UP, 1994.
  • Delimitation and delimitation myths. On subjectivity in the modern novel. Stuttgart 1987.
  • Samuel Beckett's end game with subjectivity. Draft of a psychoesthetic of modern theater. Stuttgart 1981.

Editor

  • With Philomena Essed: Clones, Fakes and Posthumans. Cultures of Replication. Rodopi UP, 2012.
  • Derrida , Deleuze , Psychoanalysis. Columbia UP, 2007.
  • With Bill Maurer: Accelerating Possession. Global Futures of Property and Personhood. Columbia UP, 2006.
  • The Cultural Unconscious and the Postcolonizing Process, Routledge , 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gf.org: Gabriele M. Schwab. (accessed on July 17, 2020)
  2. ↑ www.exc16.uni-konstanz.de: Abstract , accessed on July 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schwab, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwab, Gabriele M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1946