Robert Stockhammer

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Robert Stockhammer (born August 19, 1960 in Munich ) is a German literary scholar ( comparativeist ) and professor at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at LMU Munich .

Life

Stockhammer studied literature, linguistics and philosophy, first in Munich, then mainly at the Free University of Berlin . Following his doctorate in 1989, he worked as a research assistant with Winfried Menninghaus at the Peter Szondi Institute , where he also completed his habilitation in 1998 . Between 2000 and 2007 he worked at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research . Since 2007 he has been a professor at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at LMU Munich. There he is, among other things, spokesman for the DFG Graduate School Functions of the Literary in Processes of Globalization. Guest professorships took him to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the École normal supérieure (Paris) . In 2012 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .

research

Stockhammer's research interests include German, English and French-language literature, especially since the 18th century, including African literatures, the history of grammar, rhetoric and philology, the relationship between globalization and literature (under aspects such as multilingualism, cosmopolitanism and climate change ), the relationship between literature and other forms of knowledge and media (especially cartography), the relationship between pop and politics, as well as characters of dubious existence (ghosts, extraterrestrials, magicians, shepherds and the like).

Publications

Monographs

  • Reading narratives. Alternatives to the hermeneutic procedure , Metzler (M&P Verlag), Stuttgart 1991.
  • Magic texts. The return of magic and literature , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Rwanda. Writing about another genocide , Suhrkamp 2005.
  • Mapping the earth. Power and lust in maps and literature , Fink Verlag 2007.
  • Grammar. Knowledge and power in the history of a linguistic institution , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014.
  • African Philology , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-29763-6 .
  • "1967". Pop, Grammatology and Politics . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6161-2 .

Collection of articles

  • 'Literature', after a genocide. Utterance files, forms of expression, utterance offenses , Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2010.

Editions / anthologies

  • Ghost Book , ed. by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun, selected and provided with an afterword by Robert Stockhammer, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1992.
  • with Mona Körte: Ahasver's trace. Seals and documents from the "Ewigen Juden" , Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1995.
  • with Justus Fetscher: Martians. How extraterrestrials were searched for and invented , Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1997.
  • with Gerhard Bauer : a sense of possibility. Fantasy and fantasy in narrative literature of the 20th century , Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000.
  • ed. v. Michael Franz , Inge Baxmann and Wolfgang Schäffner with the collaboration of Bernhard Siegert and Robert Stockhammer The Laocoon Paradigm. Character regime in the 18th century , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • Limits of the aesthetic , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • TopoGraphies of Modernity. Media of representation and construction of spaces , Fink Verlag, Munich 2005.
  • with Michael Franz, Wolfgang Schäffner, Bernhard Siegert: Electric Laokoon. Characters and media, from punch cards to grammatology , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  • with Susan Arndt , Dirk Naguschewski: Exophonie. Different languages ​​(in) literature , Kadmos Verlag, Berlin 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Robert Stockhammer. Academia Europaea, accessed July 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stockhammer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparator
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich