Reingard M. Nischik

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Reingard Monika Nischik (* 1952 in Herford ) is a German literary scholar and university professor.

Career

Nischik studied English and North American literature as well as social sciences at the University of Cologne and passed the first state examination in 1977 . In 1978/1979 she spent a year at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver as part of her doctorate and supported by a grant from the Canadian government . In 1980 she was awarded a doctorate by the University of Cologne; She wrote her dissertation on single-stranded and multi-stranded plot management in novels of Anglophone literatures . From 1984 to 1989 Nischik dealt with narratology and style theory as part of her habilitation at the University of Cologne and at the University of London . After working as a research assistant at the chair for Anglo-American literature at the University of Cologne from 1979 to 1986 , she switched to a professorship for general and comparative literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in 1988 . In 1992 she became Professor of English Philology at the Institute for North American Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , before accepting a professorship in American Studies at the University of Konstanz in 1994. In the 2009/2010 academic year, Nischik was a fellow at the “Cultural Foundations of Integration” cluster of excellence at the University of Konstanz, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the federal and state governments to promote science and research at German universities. She is the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of North American Literature (2014, TB 2017). In 2014 she received funding from the “Freedom for Creativity” program.

Research priorities

In teaching and in her numerous publications, Reingard Nischik has concentrated on the literatures and cultures of Canada and the USA , with a focus on narratology , short stories , the work of the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood , cultural transfer, literature and the media as well as literature and gender .

Nischik is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian literary magazine "Canadian Literature. A quarterly of criticism and Review. Littérature canadienne. Une revue trimestrielle d'études et de critique" at the Université de la Colombie-Britannique , UBC.

Teaching and promoting young talent

In addition to research, Nischik pays particular attention to teaching and especially promoting young talent. In addition to her long-standing commitment to international exchange connections, especially with Canadian and US universities, she has supervised around 30 doctoral students who have received numerous scholarships and prizes for young researchers.

Awards

  • Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Award (for Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact [2000] and for Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood [2009])
  • State teaching award Baden-Württemberg 2002

Fonts (selection)

  • The English Short Story in Canada. From the Dawn of Modernism to the 2013 Nobel Prize. McFarland, Jefferson NC 2017 ISBN 9781476668598
  • Comparative North American Studies: Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015
  • (Ed.): The Palgrave Handbook of North American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2014; TB ibid. 2017 ISBN 9781349490066
  • Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood. University of Ottawa Press, 2009
  • (Ed.): History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian. Camden House, Rochester NY 2008
  • (Ed.): The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations. Camden House, Rochester NY 2007
  • (with Luise von Flotow as ed.): Translating Canada: Charting the Institutions and Influences of Cultural Transfer: Canadian Writing in German / y. University of Ottawa Press, 2007
  • (with Konrad Groß, Wolfgang Klooss ed.): Canadian literary history. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2005; from unchang. 8th edition and as an ebook : Springer Nature
  • (Ed.): American Love Stories. Reclam, Stuttgart 2003
  • (Ed.): Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact. Camden House, Rochester, NY 2000; again Anansi, Toronto 2002
  • (Ed.): New York Fiction. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000
  • "Pen Photographs". On the phenomenon of the (Canadian) short story cycle. German quarterly for literary studies and intellectual history , 3, 1992 doi : 10.1007 / BF03396294 pp. 192–204 (about Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1796–1865)
  • Mental Stylistics: A contribution to style theory and narrative, illustrated in Margaret Atwood's short story. Narr, Tübingen 1991
  • (with Robert Kroetsch as editor): Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. NeWest, Edmonton 1985
  • Single-stranded and multi-stranded plot management in literary texts: depicted in particular in English, American and Canadian novels of the 20th century. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1981

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notes

  1. ↑ Board ISSN  0008-4360
  2. ↑ Klooss has received the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies since 2015
  3. ↑ Collective review by Peter Goossens
personal data
SURNAME Nischik, Reingard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nischik, Reingard Monika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford