Vera Nünning

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Vera Nünning (born April 3, 1961 in Cologne ) is a German English scholar, philologist and cultural scientist.

Life

Vera Nünning studied English and History at the University of Cologne, received her doctorate there in 1989 with a dissertation in English Philology (on the aesthetics of Virginia Woolfs ) and received her habilitation in 1995 in Modern and Contemporary History. Your supervisor in the subject of history was Erich Angermann . From 2000 to 2002 she was professor for English literature and culture at the Technical University of Braunschweig , but turned down the offer of a chair in favor of a professorship for English philology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . There she established cultural studies as a part of English philology. Other activities include the office of Vice Rector for International Relations (2006–2009); a short-term visiting professor at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), Universidade Cathólica Portuguesa , Lisbon (Portugal) and at the Helsingin Yliopisto ( University of Helsinki , Finland) (2006, 2009, 2010); Head of the subproject C10 'Rituals without Performance' in the SFB 619 Ritualdynamik (since 2009); and a membership of the external advisory board of the University of Cologne (since 2010). In addition, she has been actively campaigning for the development of the German-Turkish University (DTU) in Istanbul since 2006 and was initially responsible for this, from 2009 Vice President and from 2009/10 President of the German Consortium for the Turkish-German University. In 2011/12 she was also a fellow at the Marsiliuskolleg of Heidelberg University, with an interdisciplinary project on narrativity.

Vera Nünning is married to Ansgar Nünning, an English student .

Short bibliography

Monographs

  • An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature. University knowledge of English and American studies. Klett, Stuttgart 2004, 196 pp. (With A. Nünning).
  • Basic course in English-American literature. University knowledge of English and American studies. Klett, Stuttgart 2001; 2nd edition 2002, 3rd, corr. 2003, 4th 2004, 5th 2005, 7th 2008, 198 pages (with A. Nünning).
  • The 19th century English novel. University knowledge of English and American studies. Klett, Stuttgart 2000; 2nd edition 2003, 3rd edition 2007, 184 pp.
  • English literature of the 18th century. University knowledge of English and American studies. Klett, Stuttgart 1998, reprint of the 1st edition 2006, 188 pages (with A. Nünning)
  • Introduction to American History. CH Beck, Munich 1998, 222 pp. (With Jürgen Heideking)
  • A Revolution in Sentiments, Manners, and Moral Opinions: Catharine Macaulay and the Political Culture of English Radicalism, 1760–1790. English Research, Volume 255. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter 1998, 448 pp.
  • University training in history. Introduction to the basic structures of the subject and methods of source work. Ernst Klett Publishing House for Knowledge and Education, Stuttgart 1995, 215 pages (with Ralf Saal)
  • Virginia Woolf as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 1991, 189 pp. (With A. Nünning)
  • Virginia Woolf's Aesthetic. A reconstruction of their philosophical and aesthetic basic views on the basis of their non-fictional writings. New Studies in English and American Studies, Volume 49. Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1990, 276 pp.

Editing of scientific journals and book series

  • English Studies.
  • Kindler New Literature Lexicon. (15 volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2009; with A. Nünning)
  • Yearbook Woolf Studies Annual.
  • ELCH: Studies in English Literary and Cultural History / ELK: Studies in English Literary and Cultural Studies. so far volumes 1–35. Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier. S. 2001ff. (with A. Nünning, University of Gießen).
  • WVT manuals for literary studies. previously volumes 1–11. Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier (from volume 8; with Ansgar Nünning)

Essays, articles

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Nünning, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne