Klaus Stierstorfer

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Klaus Stierstorfer (* 1961 ) is a German English studies professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He is the chairman of the German Anglist Association.

Professional background

Klaus Stierstorfer studied English and theology at the University of Regensburg from 1982 to 1989 . In 1989 he received his doctorate in philosophy at St Cross College of the University of Oxford . After working as a research assistant and assistant at the University of Würzburg from 1997 to 2002, he accepted a professorship at the University of Düsseldorf , where he headed the English seminar from 2002 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been managing director of the English seminar at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster as a C4 professor. Since September 2007 he has been President of the German Anglists' Association.

Publications

Monographs

  • John Oxenford (1812-1877) as Farceur and Critic of Comedy . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1996. ISBN 978-0820431819
  • Constructing the literary past: English literary historiography from Warton to Courthope and Ward . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2001. ISBN 978-3825312459

As editor (selection)

  • Beyond Postmodernism. Reassessments in Literature, Theory, and Culture . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin New York 2003. ISBN 978-3110177220
  • with Laurenz Volkmann: Teaching Postmodernism / Postmodern Teaching . Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 2004. ISBN 978-3860571064
  • with Laurenz Volkmann: interdisciplinary cultural studies . Narr, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-8233-6124-4

Scientific editions

  • London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford University Press, 2001 (Editor, Foreword and Commentary) ISBN 978-0192832962
  • Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire . Pickering & Chatto, London 2006. (6 volumes, general editor of the series: Klaus Stierstorfer) ISBN 978-1851967933

Essays

  • Canadian recontextualization of a German nightmare: Henry Kreisel's "Betrayal" (1964), in dsb., Heinz Antor , Sylvia Brown eds .: Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, again 2015, pp. 195–206

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personal data
SURNAME Stierstorfer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English, university professor at the English seminar in Münster
DATE OF BIRTH 1961