Juliane Prade-Weiss

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Juliane Prade-Weiss (born April 10, 1980 in Dresden ) is a German literary scholar .

Life

From 1998 to 2004 she studied newer and older German literature, philosophy and Slavic (Czech) at the Goethe University , the TU Dresden and the Charles University in Prague (graduated as MA with a thesis on Ovid's letters from exile). From 2004 she was a doctoral candidate and from 2007 to 2017 a research assistant at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature in Frankfurt am Main . In 2007 she did research in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University . After completing her doctorate in 2011 with the thesis Language Openness: Humans, Animals and Children in the Autobiography of the Imagination of Language Genesis in Philosophical and Literary Texts, she was a research fellow from the German Research Foundation at the German Department of Yale University from 2017 to 2019 at the end of the habilitation project Continuing Consumption: Zur Language of complaint . From 2019 to 2020 she worked at the University of Vienna with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Union on a project on complicity. Since 2020 she has been Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Her main areas of work are German-language literature from the 18th to the 21st century, modern English-language literature, Roman literature, Russian and Czech literature, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, European and global East-West narratives, gender studies, affect and emotion theory, language and violence, animal & environmental studies, multilingualism, medical humanities as well as literature and law.

Fonts (selection)

  • Openness to language. Human, animal and child in the autobiography . Würzburg 2013, ISBN 3-8260-4955-1 .
  • as editor: (M) Other tongues. Literary reflections on a difficult distinction . Newcastle upon Tyne 2013, ISBN 1-4438-4263-X .
  • Language of Ruin and Consumption. On Lamenting and Complaining . London 2020, ISBN 9781501344206 .

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personal data
SURNAME Prade-Weiss, Juliane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prade, Juliane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden