Rainer Emig
Rainer Emig (born May 14, 1964 in Messel near Darmstadt) is a German Anglist .
Life
Emig attended the Justus-Liebig-Gymnasium in Darmstadt and studied English, German, theater, film and media studies in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Warwick in Great Britain from 1983 to 1988.
After his doctorate as Dr. phil. Emig completed his habilitation in 1998 with a paper on war as a metaphor in the 20th century. From 1999 to 2008 he taught as professor for British literature at the University of Regensburg at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dieter A. Berger, then from 2008 to 2015 as professor of British literature and cultural studies at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover . In 2014, Emig accepted a call to a W3 English professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where he has been teaching since the 2015 summer semester and holding the chair for English literature and cultural studies.
Emig mainly deals with topics of 19th and 20th century English literature and culture and gender studies.
Fonts
- Modernism in Poetry: Motivations, Structures and Limits, Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature (London and New York: Longman, 1995), 270 pages [dissertation]
- WH Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), 237 pages
- War as a Metaphor in the Twentieth Century , University Edition (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001), 349 pages [habilitation thesis]
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Emig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Connecting Cultures 2009
- Rainer Emig on the homepage of the English seminar at the University of Hanover
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Emig, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Anglist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Messel near Darmstadt |