Monika Schmitz-Emans

Monika Schmitz-Emans, 2015

Monika Schmitz-Emans (born June 1, 1956 in Leverkusen ) is a German comparativeist and literary scholar .

Life

After studying German, philosophy, pedagogy, Italian and art studies and the first state examination for the subjects of German and philosophy, Schmitz-Emans received his doctorate in 1984 under Beda Allemann in Bonn with a thesis on the subject: Snuff knot or constellation? Jean Paul's approaches to a theory of language . From 1983 she worked as a research assistant at the German Department of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and as a lecturer at the Universities of Essen and Jena . In 1992, he completed his habilitation on writing and absence. Historical paradigms on the poetics of deciphering and writing at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn. In the same year, he was appointed professor for modern European literature at the FernUniversität Hagen . In 1995 Schmitz-Emans was appointed to the chair for general and comparative literature at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Guest stays took her to the University of Notre Dame (Indiana / USA, 2002) and the University of Wisconsin – Madison (Wisconsin / USA, 2011) as Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor .

Research priorities

• Topics of general literary theory and poetics
• Various authors of newer and contemporary literature
• Various authors from the 19th and 20th centuries
• Works and Discourses of Romanticism
• Literature and other arts
• Literature, images and visuality
• Literature and comics
• Dialogues between literature and philosophy
• Literature and knowledge discourses
• Self-reference and metaization in literary texts
• Literary multilingualism

Research projects

• Literary encyclopaedias, lexicographical writing and forms of literary mimicry to specialized forms of representation
• Literature, artist books and book design
• Journal literature and comics
• Autobiographical Alphabets
• Literature and photography
• Science fiction

Memberships and functions as well as appointments

in scientific societies

• German Society for General and Comparative Literature Studies (DGAVL) - Chair 1999–2005
• Jean Paul Society (Chair 2007–2017); Co-editor of the Jean Paul Society yearbook
• International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - Member of the Executive Council 2007–2016
• Academia Europaea
• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Düsseldorf)
• German University Association (Bonn)

Fellowships

• at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 2008/09
• at the BildEvidenz college at the Free University of Berlin
• at the Research College Morphomata at the University of Cologne

Works

as an author (selection)

• Snuff knot or constellation. Jean Paul's approaches to a theory of language . Bouvier Verlag , Bonn 1986, ISBN 3-416-01966-0 . (also Univ.-Diss. Bonn 1984)
• Is literature reflected in reality? Reflections and theses on a poetics of imitation . Wallstein Verlag , Darmstadt / Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-89244-118-9 . (= Answer to the 1993 prize question from the German Academy for Language and Poetry , Darmstadt: Is literature reflected in reality?)
• Writing and absence. Historical paradigms on the poetics of deciphering and writing . Habilitation thesis . Wilhelm Fink Verlag , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-2992-8 .
• The language of modern poetry . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8252-1963-1 .
• The literature, the pictures and the invisible. Game forms of literary image interpretation from the 18th to the 20th century . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1573-8 .
• Sea depths and soul depths. Literary reflections of inner and outer strangers . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2393-5 .
• Introduction to Romantic Literature. 4th edition. Scientific Book Society , Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26707-1 .
• Questions about Kaspar Hauser . Designs of Man, Language and Poetry . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3651-4 .
• Poetics of Transformation . Studienverlag , Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4660-7 .
• Franz Kafka . Epoch - work - effect . Verlag CH Beck , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-62229-8 .
• Literature comics. Adaptations and transformations of world literature . Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026676-4 . (in collaboration with Christian A. Bachmann)
• Encyclopedic Fantasies . Knowledge-conveying forms of representation in literature - case studies and poetics (= Monika Schmitz-Emans [Hrsg.]: Literature - Knowledge - Poetics . Volume 8 ). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2019, ISBN 978-3-487-15640-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

as editor (selection)

• with Achim Hölter : History of literature and visual media . Synchron-Verlag , Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-939381-85-3 .
• with Kurt Röttgers : clouds . Verlag Die Blaue Eule , Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-89924-412-0 .
• with Christian A. Bachmann and Laura Emans : movement books . Game forms, poetics, constellations . Christian A. Bachmann Verlag , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-941030-53-4 .
• with Petra Gehring and Kurt Röttgers: abysses . Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-89924-442-7 .
• with Stephanie Heimgartner : Comparative perspectives on Dante's 'Divina Commedia'. Readings, transformations and visualizations . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-048803-6 .
• with Petra Gehring and Kurt Röttgers: Ketten . Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2017, ISBN 978-3-89924-458-8 .
• with Natalia Bakshi and Dirk Kemper : Comparative language-homogeneous spaces. Concepts, methods, case studies . Wilhelm Fink Verlag , Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6145-2 .

swell

• Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Cologne
• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• College research group BildEvidenz

Web links

Commons : Monika Schmitz-Emans  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Monika Schmitz-Emans in the catalog of the German National Library
• Comparative literature, Ruhr University Bochum