Guido Rings
Guido Rings (born November 30, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) is Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Director of the Research Unit for Intercultural and Transcultural Studies (RUITS), and coordinator of the Master's program in Intercultural Communication at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge , Great Britain.
biography
After completing his first and second state examinations in Spanish and history as well as German philology at the University of Düsseldorf, Guido Rings received his doctorate in Spanish philology and history (1996) and then habilitation in Romance literature (2005) at the University of Trier . His activity began as a lecturer for the institutes FIAC in Barcelona and IIK in Düsseldorf before he moved to Cambridge to take on courses in German and Spanish philology as well as intercultural studies for the Anglia Ruskin University. In 2000 he became Associate Professor for Intercultural Studies and Head of the German Department, in 2004 Head of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and in 2007 Professor for Postcolonial Studies.
After co-founding the academic internet magazine GFL, he started the research group RUITS in 2007 in London as part of the international conference “Neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary Europe?”, The first results of which appear in an anthology published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing the following year. In 2010, the German Academic Exchange Service supported his visiting professorship at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, where he offered courses on identity and alterity in contemporary Spanish cinema with migration issues, the conquest of America in contemporary narrative in Spain and Latin America and 1910-2010: The other Mexico - from the Mexican revolutionary novel to the hypertext of the Zapatistas. Back in Cambridge, Rings co-founded the interdisciplinary journal iMex, and also held consultancy roles for Cambridge University Press and Routledge. Rings also works as a reviewer for the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and several academic journals, including the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication , Current Issues in Language Planning and the Iberoamericana . He was an external auditor at Birkbeck College, London, and a consultant for the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union.
He was Associate Professor for Intercultural Studies and Head of the Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages at the same institution, DAAD visiting professor for Romance literature at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and visiting professor for media studies at University of Bayreuth . Rings is co-editor of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) and Interdisciplinary Mexico (iMex), the first academic internet journals in their respective fields, and he is a member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Research priorities
- Cinema and literature on migration issues (see, for example, the publications from 2009, 2010 and 2012 listed below)
- post-colonial literature, cinema and theater for the conquest of America (cf. his monograph La Conquista Desbaratada from 2010)
- intercultural communication
- Cultural theories
Selected publications
- European Cinema: Inside Out. Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film (with Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas; Heidelberg: Winter 2003)
- BBC-German Grammar (with R. Tenberg, 2nd edition, London: BBC 2005)
- Conquered Conquerors (Habilitation; Frankfurt / Main: Vervuert / Iberoamericana 2005)
- Worlds of images - worlds of text - worlds of comics (with Frank Leinen; Munich: Meidenbauer 2007)
- Neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary Europe. Language and discourse in the construction of identities (with Anne Ife; Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008)
- La otra cara de la migración: Imágenes del inmigrante latinoamericano en el cine español contemporáneo (The other side of migration: depictions of Latin American migrants in contemporary Spanish cinema, Iberoamericana -Themenheft IX / 34 2009, pp. 71–148)
- Cultural Encounters in Contemporary German Cinema (with Christopher Hall, GFL Issue XI / 1 2010, pp. 1–150)
- La Conquista desbaratada. Identidad y alteridad en la novela, el cine y el teatro hispánicos contemporáneos (The failed conquest. Identity and alterity in contemporary Hispanic novel, cinema and theater; Madrid: Iberoamericana 2010)
- Identity and Otherness in contemporary Chicano cinema (iMex issue I / 2 2012, pp. 4–115)
Individual evidence
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rings, Guido |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Hispanist, Romanist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |