Hubert Zapf

Hubert Zapf (born May 6, 1948 in Fichtelberg ) is a German Americanist and literary scholar .

Hubert Zapf studied English and history at the University of Regensburg from 1969 to 1971. From 1972 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the University of Würzburg. 1977-78 he was Lector for German at the University of Buckingham, England. From 1978 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Paderborn, where he received his doctorate in 1981 and qualified as a professor in 1987 . Zapf is qualified to teach English literature and American studies and has held the chair in American studies at the University of Augsburg since 1991 . Numerous international guest stays and keynote lectures. He was a longtime co-editor of Anglia: Journal of English Philology. His main research interests include viewing literature as a cultural ecology , researching literary creativity, and studying literature from a text-ethical perspective. In the context of researching literature with regard to its cultural-ecological dimension, Zapf published the relevant work Literature as Cultural Ecology . Numerous publications in this area followed, both as author and editor, in particular of the anthology Kulturökologie und Literatur. Contributions to a transdisciplinary paradigm in literary studies . The monograph Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts , the edited Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , as well as the anthology Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture , which he co-edited, were published in English. The third edition of his American literary history published in 2010 is a standard work of university teaching in the German-speaking area. He is co-editor of the Handbooks of English and American Studies (De Gruyter) series and one of the directors of the research focus Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg.

Works

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Monographs

• Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture. (Ed. With Gabriele Dürbeck, Urte Stobbe and Evi Zemanek, 2017)
• Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. (2016)
• Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts. (2016)
• Literature as a cultural ecology. On the cultural function of imaginative texts using examples from the American novel . (2002)
• Brief history of Anglo-American literary theory . (1996)
• The drama in abstract society. On the theory and structure of modern English drama . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1988.
• The novel as a medium of reflection. An investigation using the example of three novels by Saul Bellow ( Augie March , Herzog , Humboldt's Gift ). (1981)

Editorships

• Theories of literature. Basics and perspectives . Edited by Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Francke, Volumes I – V. 2003-2011.
• Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism . Edited by Sebnem Toplu and Hubert Zapf. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2010.
• Great works of literature . Volumes IX-XI. Edited by Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Francke, 2010.
• Cultural ecology and literature. Contributions to a transdisciplinary paradigm in literary studies . Edited by Hubert Zapf with the collaboration of Christina Caupert, Timo Müller, Erik Redling and Michael Sauter. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008.
• Self-Reflexivity in Literature . Edited by Werner Huber, Martin Middeke and Hubert Zapf. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2005.
• Modernization and literature . Festschrift for Hans Ulrich Seeber. Edited by Stephan Kohl, Heinz Göbel and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Narr, 2000.
• Anglia . Journal of English Philology . Tübingen: Niemeyer. Co-editor since 1996.
• Anglia book series . Tübingen: Niemeyer; Series of publications. Co-editor since 1996.
• Text and theory . Augsburg theses on English and American studies. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, series of publications. Ed. Together with Martin Middeke.
• American literary history . 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02310-0 .

Web links

• University of Augsburg: Hubert Zapf