Hanna Eglinger

Hanna Eglinger (* 1975 ) is a German Scandinavian.

Life

From 1995 to 2001 she studied Nordic philology, modern German literature and education at the LMU Munich (2001: Magister Artium) and in Uppsala . From 1999 to 2001 she was a research assistant in the DFG project "Dialogues between Word Art and Visual Art in Scandinavian Modernism ( Nordbildtext )" at the LMU Munich and from 2001 to 2003 a research assistant in the same project. From 2003 to 2006 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Nordic Philology in Munich, representing the assistant position. After completing her doctorate in Nordic Philology in 2006, she was a member of the interdisciplinary research group “Beginnings of Modernity” at the LMU Munich (DFG-funded) until 2009. From 2009 to 2016 she was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern Scandinavian Studies at LMU Munich and from 2013 to 2016 a member of the international research group "Arctic Modernities" at Tromsø University . In December 2015 she was offered the W2 professorship for comparative literature with a focus on Northern European literatures / Scandinavian studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , but her appointment to the professorship in April 2016 was prevented by a competitor lawsuit. In 2016 she was a visiting lecturer at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich and a scholarship holder for the excellent young academics of the Bavarian Equal Opportunities Fund. At the beginning of 2017 she was a research assistant at the chair for modern Scandinavian studies at LMU Munich until she took up her professorship. Since 2017 she has been a W2 professor for comparative literature with a focus on northern European literatures / Scandinavian studies in Erlangen .

Her main research interests are Scandinavian contemporary literature, literary and cultural studies, body theories, text-image references, literary initial concepts, polar literature, poetics of the parasitic and literary figurations of error.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Annegret Heitmann : BildDurchSchrift. On the visual discourse in contemporary Scandinavian literature . Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-7930-9334-4 .
• The body as a palimpsest. The poetological dimension of the human body in contemporary Scandinavian literature . Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-7930-9507-1 .
• with Annegret Heitmann: Land grab. Early narratives in Scandinavian literature around 1900 . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4974-0 .
• as editor with Joachim Schiedermair , Stephan Michael Schröder , Antje Wischmann and Katarina Yngborn: Schriftfest. Festschrift for Annegret Heitmann . Munich 2018, ISBN 3-8316-4689-9 .

She is also co-editor of the Nordeuropaforum magazine .

Web links

• Hanna Eglinger on the website of the comparative literature at FAU Erlangen
• Former website of Hanna Eglinger on the website of the Institute for Nordic Philology at LMU Munich
• Research profile on Researchgate
• Research profile on Academia.edu