Martin Middeke

Martin Middeke (born April 24, 1963 in Paderborn ) is a German English scholar and literary scholar .

Life

Middeke studied English , German , philosophy and educational science at the University of Paderborn and the University of Reading , England , from 1985 to 1990 . In 1993 he did his doctorate in English in Paderborn on Stephen Poliakoff: Drama and dramaturgy in abstract society . A Fulbright scholarship brought him to New York University in the USA in 1995 , and in 1997 and 1998 he held research grants from the International Beckett Foundation at the University of Reading in England. He completed his habilitation at the cultural studies faculty of the University of Paderborn in 2000 and received the venia legendi for the subject "English Philology including English Cultural Studies". In 2001 he accepted a professorship for English literature at the University of Augsburg . In 2008 and 2009 he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, where he has been a permanent visiting professor since 2010.

Martin Middeke is co-editor of the magazine Anglia, founded in 1877 by Moritz Trautmann and Richard Wülker . Journal of English Philology and its book series, as well as the series "text & theorie". He is also currently the editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE)" and the General Editor of the German Society for Contemporary Drama in English (CDE) and its book series "CDE Studies". Martin Middeke has been an elected member of Academia Europaea since 2013 .

Act

Middeke published numerous works on English and Irish literature and on cultural-anthropological questions about the interrelationship of philosophy, aesthetics and structures of the lifeworld and consciousness, especially the experience of time. He specializes in English fin de siècle , James Joyce , Samuel Beckett , the postmodern novel , and contemporary English-language drama . In Middeke's literary theoretical position, methodological aspects of literary anthropology, literary ethics, phenomenological hermeneutics and deconstruction are combined.

Works

(Selection)

• Stephen Poliakoff : Drama and Dramaturgy in the Abstract Society . Paderborn et al .: Schöningh, 1994.
• [Ed. with Werner Huber] Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama . Rochester, NY: Camden House, 1999.
• [Ed.] Zeit und Roman: The experience of time in historical change and aesthetic paradigm shift from the sixteenth century to postmodernism . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002.
• The art of lived time: studies of the phenomenology of literary subjectivity in the English novel of the late nineteenth century . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004.
• [Ed. with Werner Huber and Hubert Zapf] Self-Reflexivity in Literature . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2005.
• [Ed. with Christoph Henke] Drama and / after Postmodernism . Trier: Scientific publishing house, 2007.
• [Ed. with Christoph Henke] Literature and Circularity . Special Issue in: Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics Vol. 9. New York: AMS Press, 2009.
• [Ed. with Peter Paul Schnierer] The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights . London: Methuen Drama, 2010.
• [Ed. with Peter Paul Schnierer and Aleks Sierz] The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights . London: Methuen Drama, 2011.
• [Ed. with Christina Wald] The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern . Basingstoke / New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• [Ed.] Literature and / as Ethics , special issue in Anglia: Journal of English Philology 129.3-4 (2011).
• [Ed. with Timo Müller, Christina Wald and Hubert Zapf] English and American Studies: Theory and Practice . Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012.
• [Ed. with Peter Paul Schnierer, Christopher Innes and Matthew C. Roudané] The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights . London / New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014.
• [Ed. with Peter Paul Schnierer and Greg Homann] The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theater . London / New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.
• [Ed. with Christoph Reinfandt] Theory Matters: The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today. London / New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• [Ed. with Mireia Aragay] Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theater. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2017.
• [Ed. with David Kornhaber] Drama, Theater, and Philosophy , Special Issue in Anglia: Journal of English Philology 136.1 (2018).
• [Ed. with Monika Pietrzak-Franger] Handbook of the English Novel: 1830–1900. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Web links

• Website of Prof. Dr. Martin Middeke
• Literature by and about Martin Middeke in the catalog of the German National Library