Walburga Hulk-Althoff

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Walburga Hulk-Althoff

Walburga Hülk-Althoff (born September 23, 1953 in Münster ) is a German Romance literary scholar . Her scientific publications appear under her author name Walburga Hülk . She teaches at the University of Siegen .

resume

After completing her Abitur at the Marienschule Münster in 1972 , Walburga Hülk studied Romance and German studies as well as several semesters of history , art history and philosophy at the universities of Münster , Orléans and Freiburg . In 1978/79 she obtained the first state examination as well as the Magister Artium and in 1980 became a research assistant to Erich Köhler († 1981) from Freiburg . With a thesis on Eugène Sue's feature novels Les Mystères de Paris and Le Juif errant , she received her doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1983. In 1986 she moved to an assistant position at the University of Giessen , where she completed her habilitation in 1993 with a thesis on “subjectivity” in literary texts of the French late Middle Ages . After a temporary visiting assistant professorship at the University of California, Berkeley , she accepted a professorship for Romance literature (with a focus on French and Italian ) at the University of Siegen in October 1996 . Walburga Hülk-Althoff is married, has four children and lives in Münster .

Walburga Hülk is co-editor of the Siegen series. Contributions to literature, linguistics and media studies as well as the Romance journal for the history of literature / Cahiers d'Histoire des Littératures Romanes ( RZLG / CHLR ). She is also part of the FMSH Bibliothèque allemande working group of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme ( Paris ).

research

As a literary historian, Walburga Hülk dealt early on with the mass press and low culture emerging in France in the 19th century , its communicative dynamics and the resulting questions of form for literature and art of modernism . Methods of literary sociology and discourse analysis , which she further developed from a media aesthetic perspective, were initially pioneering. A longstanding research focus has been on 19th century literature; Studies on the historical avant-garde , on the competition and dynamics of the arts and media since the turn of the century around 1900, are accompanied by international colloquia . She has also presented works on the history of science and the history of the intellectual as well as recent French film history, in particular on intermedia processes and intercultural semantics.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • When the heroes became victims. Basics and function of social order models in the feature novels "Les Mystères de Paris" and "Le Juif errant" by Eugène Sue. Winter, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-533-03686-3 .
  • Writing / traces of subjectivity. Reading literary texts of the French late Middle Ages (=  supplements to the magazine for Romance philology. Vol. 297). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-52297-6 .
  • Movement as the mythology of modernity. Four studies on Baudelaire , Flaubert , Taine , Valéry . Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2008-5 .
  • The rush of the years. When Paris invented modernity. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-455-00637-7 .

Editing

  • Spectrum. Siegen perspectives on a Romance literature, culture and media studies (=  Siegen series. Vol. 148). Edited with the assistance of Dietmar Frenz, Tanja Schwan. Universi, Siegen 2003, ISBN 3-936533-12-1 .
  • with Ursula Renner: biology, psychology, poetology. Negotiations between the sciences. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-2869-4 .
  • with Yasmin Hoffmann, Volker Roloff: Old Myths - New Media (=  Siegen series. Vol. 149). Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5184-X .
  • with Gregor shoes, Tanja Schwan: (Post-) Gender . Choreographies / cuts. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-277-5 .
  • with Marijana Erstić, Gregor shoes: bodies in motion. Models and impulses of the Italian avant-garde. Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1099-4 .
  • with Gregor shoes: Haussmann and the consequences. From the boulevard to the boulevardization (=  edition lendemains. Vol. 25). Narr, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8233-6661-4 .
  • with Uta Fenske, Gregor Schuhe: The crisis as a narrative. Transdisciplinary perspectives on a modern narrative. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-1835-8 .
  • with Anthony Glinoer, Bénédicte Zimmermann: Cultures de la créativité. Bohème historique et précarités contemporaines = cultures of the creative. From the historical bohemian to the creative society (= Trivium . Vol. 18). 2014.
  • with Nicole Pöppel, Georg Stanitzek : Bohème after '68. Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-940384-52-2 .

Web links

Commons : Walburga Hülk-Althoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brief vita of Walburga Hülk-Althoff on the website of the University of Siegen .
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 18th edition (2001). Vol. 1, p. 1364.
  3. ↑ Cf. u. a. Walburga Hülk: Some thoughts on the performative and deconstructive character of intellectual honesty . In: Intellectual Righteousness - Integrité intellectuelle. Festschrift for Joseph Jurt . Edited by Michael Einfalt u. a. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5030-4 , pp. 15-22.
  4. ^ Publications by Walburga Hülk on the website of the University of Siegen .
personal data
SURNAME Hülk-Althoff, Walburga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hulk, Walburga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster