Silke Segler-Messner

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Silke Segler-Meßner (* 1965 ) is a German Romanist .

Life

From 1986 to 1994 she completed a master’s degree in Romance studies and German studies at the University of Bonn (major: Romance studies / Italian philology; minor subjects: Romance studies / French philology, modern German literature) - Master’s thesis on the subject: “Woman and writing - the Italian author in Course of the Centuries ”. During her doctorate (1994–1997) in Italian Studies at the University of Bonn - dissertation on the topic: Between Sensitivity and Rationality - The Dialogue of the Sexes in the Italian Enlightenment, she received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . After her habilitation in 2003 in Gallo Romance Studies at the University of Stuttgart , she held numerous substitute professorships a. a. at the University of Potsdam , Frankfurt am Main and Kassel . Since 2010 she has taught as a professor for Italian and French literature at the University of Hamburg .

Her research interests are gender relations from the early modern period to modern times, European cultures of remembrance after the Shoah, trauma and witness: wars of religion, World War II, Rwanda, medial communication of victimhood and perpetration and French-language literatures: (post) colonialism, migration.

Fonts (selection)

  • Between sensitivity and rationality. The dialogue of the sexes in the Italian Enlightenment . Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-503-04913-4 .
  • Archives of memory. Literary evidence of survival after the Shoah in France . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-19705-X .
  • as editor with Daniel Bengsch: Depuis les marges. Les années 1940–1960, une époque charnière . Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-503-16633-5 .
  • as editor: Survival story (s) in the Romance cultures of remembrance. Research Perspectives . Berlin 2017, ISBN 3-7329-0280-3 .

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