Virginia Richter
Virginia Richter (born July 24, 1964 in Prague ) is a German English student .
Life
She studied English literature, comparative literature and German literature at the University of Munich and received her master's degree in 1992. She did her doctorate in 1993 in the DFG graduate college on gender difference and literature . After completing her dissertation, she held teaching positions in English literature and comparative literature and received a postdoctoral scholarship from the University of Munich . After her habilitation in 2005 ( Venia legendi : English and Comparative Literature) in 2006 she spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds . She was visiting professor for English at the University of Göttingen and for Comparative Literature at the University of Munich. Since September 2007 she has held the chair for Modern English Literature at the University of Bern.
Her research interests are British Literature and Culture, Victorian Age , Modernity, Literary and Cultural Theory, Gender Studies , Post-Colonial Studies / Cosmopolitanism , Literature and Science, especially Darwinism , and the Strand in Modern Literature.
Fonts (selection)
- Violent reading. Gender constitution and gender conflict in Clarissa, Les liaisons dangereuses and Les infortunes de la vertu . Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3467-0 .
- as editor with Katharina Rennhak : Revolution and Emancipation. Gender orders in Europe around 1800. Conference on Gender and Politics around 1800 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in September 2002 . Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-11204-6 .
- Literature after Darwin. Human beasts in western fiction, 1859-1939 . Basingstoke 2011, ISBN 0-230-27340-8 .
- as editor with Ursula Kluwick: The beach in Anglophone literatures and cultures. Reading littoral space . Farnham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4724-5753-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richter, Virginia. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on May 10, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).
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SURNAME | Richter, Virginia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German English scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |