Ursula Kocher

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Ursula Kocher (* 1968 ) is a German literary scholar and university professor.

Life

Ursula Kocher studied German, Romance studies, rhetoric and history at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In 1994 she made her master's degree , in 1995 her state examination . Since 1996 she has been an associate of the Graduate School “Ars and Scientia in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times”, then of the Graduate School “Pragmatization / De-pragmatization: Literature as a field of tension between autonomous and heteronomous determinations”. From 1991 to 1999 she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 2000 and 2001, Kocher was a research assistant for the DFG research project “The Invisibility of the Imagination in Elizabethan Culture” at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then until 2006 a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin .

From 2006 to 2010 she was finally appointed junior professor at the Free University. From 2008 to 2010 Kocher was the spokesperson for the interdisciplinary center "Middle Ages - Renaissance - Early Modern Times". Since 2010 she has been Professor of General Literary Studies and Older German Literature in a European Context at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . In 2012 she was elected to the university council.

Awards

  • 2013: “World Lion” of the Bergische University for special services to the internationalization of the university

Publications (selection)

  • Boccaccio and the German novelistic. Forms of transposition of Italian 'novelle' in the 15th and 16th centuries. Amsterdam / New York 2005, ISBN 978-90-420-1976-8 .
  • With Carolin Krehl: literary studies. Studies - science - profession. , Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004413-2 .
  • Ursula Kocher, Isabel Schulz (Ed.): Kurt Schwitters. The collective notebooks 1919–1923 , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-006523-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergische Universität: Gender research and worldwide reputation on wz-newsline.de from July 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kocher, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1968