Susanne Rupp

Susanne Rupp (* 1967 ) is a German English student.

Life

From 1987 to 1993 she studied musicology , English and comparative literature: LMU Munich , TU Berlin , Glasgow University . After completing her master's degree in September 1993 (major in musicology) at the Technical University of Berlin ( master’s thesis : Kurt Weill's Second Symphony in the Context of Neoclassicism) she was a research assistant at the Institute for English and American Literature at the Technical University of Berlin from November 1993 to October 1998 . From January 1999 to December 2003 she was a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 447 “Cultures of the Performative” at the Free University of Berlin, Project A4 “Dialogicity and Performance: The Theatricalization of Cultural Media in Early Modern England”, headed by Manfred Pfister .

After completing his doctorate in February 2000 at the Technical University of Berlin in English literary studies, dissertation: “From Grace to Glory”: Concepts of heaven in English theology and literature of the 17th century (assessment: summa cum laude) and habilitation in July 2004 in the subject English Philology at the Free University of Berlin ( habilitation thesis on: The Power of Songs: Studies on Secular Vocal Music of the Tudor Period), she represented the Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Stuttgart from April 2005 to September 2005 . From October 2005 to September 2006 she taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for English Philology at the Free University of Berlin. From October 2006 to March 2007 she had a DFG- funded “own position” at the Humboldt University in Berlin / project: “ Alexander Pope's Homer Translations (1715–26) and the Development of Historical Awareness in the Augustan Age”.

Since April 2007 she has been teaching as professor for British literature and culture at the University of Hamburg . From March 2010 to July 2014 she was Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching. Since August 2014 she has been Vice President for Studies and Teaching at the University of Hamburg .

Her focus is on British literature and culture from 1500 to 1800, comparative literature: music - literature, religious and theological discourses of the early modern period and classicism in England.

Fonts (selection)

• "From Grace to Glory". Heaven in 17th century English theology and literature . Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1227-5 .
• The power of songs. Cultural studies studies on the performativity of secular vocal music of the Tudor period . Trier 2005, ISBN 3-88476-735-6 .
• as editor with Tobias Döring : Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England . Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-420-1805-4 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp