Inka Mülder-Bach

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Inka Mülder-Bach (born June 14, 1953 in Hann. Münden ) is a German literary scholar .

Career

Mülder-Bach was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . She studied German, English and American studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Oslo and Berkeley (USA) and graduated in 1984 with a doctorate from the University of Tübingen. She went to the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin as a research assistant, where she completed her habilitation in 1995. The following year she taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University. After her return, she took on a substitute professorship at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1998 she accepted a professorship for modern German literature at the University of Munich. In 2000 she moved to the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Since 2002 she has been professor for modern German literature at the University of Munich. Since July 2012 she has also been a Permanent Visiting Professor at Princeton University .

Since 2006 she has been the spokesperson for the DFG research group "Beginnings (in) the Modern Age" and co-editor of POETICA , the journal for linguistics and literary studies . Since her dissertation, she has repeatedly dealt with the film critic and intellectual Siegfried Kracauer and published a complete scientific edition of his work in Suhrkamp-Verlag, which is why she has been referred to as "Kracauerin".

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Robert Musil: The man without qualities. An attempt on the novel . Hanser, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-446-24354-5 .
  • Under the sign of Pygmalion. The model of study and the discovery of "representation" in the 18th century . Munich: Fink 1998. ISBN 3-7705-3189-2
  • Siegfried Kracauer - border crosser between theory and literature . His early writings 1913–1933. Stuttgart: Metzler 1985. (Diss. Univ. Tübingen 1984.) ISBN 3-476-00573-9

source

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teaching at Princeton University
  2. ↑ At the table with Inka Mülder-Bach, “Kracauerin”. In: HR2 Kultur from April 11, 2013. ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Mülder-Bach, Inca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hann. Münden