Mark Stein (English studies)

Mark U. Stein (2017)

Mark U. Stein (born June 20, 1966 in Cologne ) is an English and literary and cultural scientist . He holds the chair for English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the English Department of Philology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, former spokesman for the graduate school "Practices of Literature" and was President of the Society for New English-Language Literature (GAPS) (2009 -2013).

Life

After studying English, American and political science in Oxford , Frankfurt am Main and Warwick , which he completed with a Master of Arts in 1994 , Mark U. Stein was a Visiting Training Fellow at the University of Kent , Canterbury until 2000 , and was at the same time Year at the Goethe University Frankfurt . He then worked as a research assistant at Saarland University, before becoming a member of the DFG Graduate College 718 "Postcolonial Studies" in 2001, and then in 2002 he was appointed junior professor for theories of non-European literatures and cultures at the Institute for English and American Studies and at Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Potsdam . In 2006 the University of Potsdam awarded him the Venia Legendi for the subject of English literary studies. Stein has been Professor of English Studies and Managing Director of the English Department at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster since the 2006 summer semester . His main research interests are postcolonialism , diaspora , porosity , transmigration, transnationalism , translocation , forms of Anglophone cultural production and reception, African European studies as well as cultural and literary theories. Postcolonial Ideology is in preparation , with Katja Sarkowsky.

Publications (selection)

• With Mita Banerjee, Markus Heide: Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Its Metaphors. in: Journal of English and American Studies: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. 49.3 (2001). Stauffenburg, Tübingen. ISBN 3-86057-836-7 .
• Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation . Ohio State University Press, Columbus 2004, ISBN 0-8142-5133-1 .
• With Susanne Reichl: Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial. Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York 2005. (International Research on General and Comparative Literature 91). ISBN 90-420-1995-6 .
• With CL Innes: African Europeans. Special issue of Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing. 23, 4 (2008). ISSN  1747-1508 (online), ISSN  0269-0055 .
• With Ulrike Lindner , Maren Möhring , Silke Stroh : Hybrid Cultures - Nervous States. Britain and Germany in a (Post) colonial World. Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York 2010. (Cross / Cultures - Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English 129). ISBN 978-90-420-3228-6 , ISBN 978-90-420-3229-3 (e-book).
• With Tobias Döring : Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism. Routledge, New York 2012. (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 39). ISBN 978-0-415-88637-6 .
• With Marga Munkelt , Markus Schmitz , Silke Stroh: Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking. Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York 2013. (ASNEL Papers 17). ISBN 978-90-420-3631-4 .
• With Tobias Döring: Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism. Routledge, New York 2014. (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 39). ISBN 978-1-138-851627 .
• With Christiane Lütge : Crossovers: Postcolonial Studies and Transcultural Learning. LIT, Zurich 2017. ISBN 978-0-415-88637-6 .
• With Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu: Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations . Routledge, New York 2020. (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora 10). ISBN 978-1-138-59032-8 .
• With Susheila Nasta: The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing. CUP, Cambridge 2020. ISBN 978-1-108-16414-6 .

Web links

• English seminar on uni-muenster.de
• PTTS Chair Mark U. Stein - University of Münster at anglistik.uni-muenster.de
• GAPS / GNEL on gaps.de
• CRIS research portal research at the University of Münster
• Academia.edu : Profile and publications (selection)
• Google.Scholar: Bibliography (selection) and citation analysis
• African European Studies V on wwu.de