Lars Eckstein

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Lars Eckstein (* 1975 in Marbach am Neckar ) is a German cultural and literary scholar and university professor.

Life

Lars Eckstein studied English, German and sports at the University of Tübingen and Indiana . He received his PhD in 2004 on Caribbean and African-American literature on the slave trade . After completing his doctorate, he spent a period abroad at the University of New South Wales in Sydney . He completed his habilitation in 2008. He was assistant professor for English at the University of Tübingen and has been professor for Anglophone literatures and cultures outside Great Britain and the USA at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam since 2009 .

In 2011, Eckstein was elected Vice-President of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS; Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies ). Since 2016 he has been co-speaker of the DFG Graduate School Minor Cosmopolitanisms.

Publications (selection)

as author:

  • Lars Eckstein: Re-Membering the Black Atlantic. On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2006, ISBN 90-420-1958-1 , ISBN 978-90-420-1958-4 , also: Dissertation, University of Tübingen, 2003 under the title The Black Atlantic in the Memory of Literature. ( Digitized version )
  • Lars Eckstein: Reading Song Lyrics. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2010, ISBN 978-90-420-3035-0 ( digitized version )
  • Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz. "The Making of Tupaia's Map: A Story of the Extent and Mastery of Polynesian Navigation, Competing Systems of Wayfinding on James Cook's Endeavor , and the Invention of an Ingenious Cartographic System" . The Journal of Pacific History 54.1 (2019): 1-95. ( Full text )

as editor:

  • Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz (eds.): Postcolonial Piracy. Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South. Theory for a Global Age. Bloomsbury, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-4725-1942-9 ( digitized )
  • Lars Eckstein (Ed.): English Literatures across the Globe. A companion. Fink, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4252-9
  • Dirk Wiemann and Lars Eckstein (eds.): The Politics of Passion. Reframing Affect and Emotion in Global Modernity. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-60196-9
  • Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt (eds.): Romanticism Today. Selected papers from the Tübingen conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Knowledge Verl. Trier, Trier 2009, ISBN 978-3-86821-147-4

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personal data
SURNAME Eckstein, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and literary scholar as well as university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Marbach am Neckar