Rüdiger Ahrens

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Rüdiger Ahrens (2009)

Rüdiger Ahrens , OBE (born January 3, 1939 in Höxter , North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German English scholar and cultural scientist. From 1980 to 2004 he was a full professor and head of the institute at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

In 1959 Ahrens passed the Abitur at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Höxter . He then completed a degree in English , Romance studies , philosophy and educational science at the universities of Göttingen, Dijon, Erlangen and London, which he completed in 1964 with the 1st state examination. In 1966 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The Essays by Francis Bacon , supervised by Erwin Wolff . Literary and moralistic statement as well as the 2nd state examination at the Ohm-Gymnasium in Erlangen in 1967 . From 1967 to 1970 he first worked as a grammar school teacher for English and French at the Humboldt grammar school, then as a research assistant with the aim of obtaining a habilitation at the English Institute of the Technical University of Hanover .

In 1970 he was appointed scientific advisor and professor , then as department head and professor for didactics of English and English literature at the newly founded University of Trier . In 1976 he was offered a position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , which he refused. In 1979 he was offered a position at the University of Würzburg, which he accepted the following year.

In the academic year 1975/1976 he was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Cambridge , in the following years as a Fulbright scholar in the USA and with an academy scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation in other research institutions in Germany and abroad. In 1990 he followed a research assignment from the DFG in Australia . In addition, from 1984 he held various visiting professorships, for example in Taiwan, Japan, the People's Republic of China and at universities in Beijing, Nanchang, where he was awarded an honorary professorship in 1994, as well as in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Further visiting professorships followed in Vancouver , Toronto (1995) and in 2007 in Jaipur (India). Because of his intensive contacts with the University of Caen (Normandy) on the student and academic level, this university made him an honorary doctorate in 1996.

In 2004 he was made an honorary member of the German Anglists' Association. In the German University Association , the nationwide association of university professors and lecturers, he works at various levels, from 1990 to 1994 as a member of the executive committee and vice-president, and since 1996 as chairman of the Bavarian State Convention.

He was Dean and Senator at the Philosophical Faculty of his university and has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Vienna since 1995. Since 2004 he has been teaching as emeritus in the new philological institute of his university and continues to supervise state examination candidates as well as doctoral and post-doctoral candidates in his subjects "English Subject Didactics" and "Cultural Studies of English-Speaking Countries".

Publications

A total of approx. 320 publications in German, English and French as books, articles, reviews and mishaps, including

  • Francis Bacon's Essays (1974)
  • English literary theoretical essays (2 vols., 1975)
  • with Erwin Wolff, English and American literary theory (2 vols., 1978–1979)
  • with Horst W. Drescher , Karl-Heinz Stoll : Lexicon of English Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 465). Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-520-46501-9 .
  • American Education Reality Today (1980)
  • William Shakespeare: Didactic Handbook (3 vols., 1982)
  • with H. Antor, Text - Culture - Reception, Cross-cultural Aspects of English Studies (1992)
  • with WD Bald and W. Hüllen, Handbook of English as a Foreign Language - HEF (1995)
  • with L. Volkmann, Why Literature Matters. Theories and Functions of Literature (1996)
  • European Language Policy (2003)
  • William Shakespeare: Time - Work - Effect. Articles (2004)
  • with M. Herrera-Sobek et al., Intercultural Transgressions in Colonial and Post-colonial Literatures (2004)
  • with U. Weier, English in Adult Education in the 21st Century (2005)
  • with M. Eisenmann and M. Merkl, Modern Drama Didactics for English Lessons (2008).

For his 60th birthday a commemorative publication by H. Antor and Kevin L. Cope, Intercultural Encounters - Studies in English Literatures (1999), for his 70th birthday a commemorative publication by H. Antor, M. Merkl, K. Stierstorfer, L Volkmann, From Interculturalism to Transculturalism. Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts (2009) published.

He is (co-) editor of

  • English studies. An International Journal of English Studies ;
  • SYMBOLISM, An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics ;
  • La Revue LISA (E-journal); Littératures, Histoire des Idées, Images, Sociétés du Monde Anglophone (Caen);
  • English research ;
  • Anglo-American Studies - Anglo-American Studies ;
  • Basics of English and American studies.

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President.
  2. ↑ https://www.hochschulverband.de/789.html#_
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Höxter