Michael Bernsen

Michael Bernsen (born May 31, 1954 in Essen ) is a German professor for Comparative Romance Literature / Medieval Studies . He teaches at the Department of Classical Philology and Romance Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1973, Bernsen studied Romance studies , philosophy , history and German at the universities of Bochum , Montpellier , Paris , Caen and Tübingen . In 1980 he passed the first state examination in French and philosophy at the University of Bochum. From 1980 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Romance Department at the University of Bochum. In 1993 he received his doctorate under Karl Maurer in Romance Studies with a thesis on fear and horror in the narrative literature of the French and English 18th centuries . The habilitation took place in 1999 with Franz Lebsanft in Bochum on the problematization of lyrical speaking in the Middle Ages .

After substituting professorships at the Universities of Wuppertal and Bonn , in 2006 he was appointed to the W-3 professorship for Comparative Romance Literature / Medieval Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Since 2007, Bernsen has been the spokesman for the Trinational Graduate School Founding Myths of Europe in Literature, Art and Music at the Universities of Bonn , Paris IV - Sorbonne and Florence . Since 2012 he has also been the spokesman for the international research network Cultures européennes - identité européenne of the Universities of Bonn, Paris IV - Sorbonne, Florence, Toulouse , Salamanca , Warsaw , St Andrews and Freiburg .

Bernsen works from a discourse history perspective in the fields of French and Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. He is co-editor of the series Founding Myths of Europe in Literature, Music and Art by Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , and of the series Bonner Romance works by Verlag Peter Lang , Frankfurt a. M. u. a., as well as member of the scientific advisory board of the magazine Comparatio at the University Press Winter , Heidelberg.

Fonts

As an author

• Fear and Terror in French and English Eighteenth Century Storytelling. Ways of modern self-preservation in the process of dissolving the theological-teleological worldview (supplements to Poetica, 20). Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1996.
• The problematization of lyrical speaking in the Middle Ages. An investigation into the discourse change in medieval love poetry from the Provençals to Petrarch (supplements to the magazine for Romance philology, 313). Tübingen 2001.
• The myth of the wisdom of Egypt in French modern literature (founding myths of Europe in literature, music and art, 5). Bonn University Press at V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011.
• Stories and history. Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi . LIT, Berlin / Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12836-2 .

As editor

• with Martin Neumann: French literature of the 19th century and orientalism. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2006.
• with Bernhard Huss : The Petrarkism - a European founding myth (founding myths of Europe in literature, music and art, 5). Bonn University Press at V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011.
• with Matthias Becher and Elke Brüggen: Founding myths of Europe in the Middle Ages (Founding myths of Europe in literature, music and art, 5). Bonn University Press at V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Bernsen
• Bernsen on the website of the University of Bonn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ romanistik.uni-bonn.de
2. ↑ gruendungsmythen-europas.uni-bonn.de
3. ↑ europaeische-kulturen.uni-bonn.de
4. ↑ vr.de
5. ↑ peterlang.com ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ winter-verlag.de