Researcher in Residence
Researcher in Residence 2024: Prof. Dr. Henk de Berg (University of Sheffield, GB)
The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Henk de Berg as this semester’s Researcher in Residence. The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationally renowned researchers. The idea is to go beyond the usual types of classes and to be able to get up close and personal with the researcher both on the topic(s) of their research but also their experience in academia in their field and their country.
This semester, Henk de Berg is visiting us from the University of Sheffield, where he has been a professor at the School of Languages and Cultures for nearly two decades. De Berg is director of the Prokhorov Center, which focusses on the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe. His research, which draws both on classical thinkers such as Hegel and Freud and on contemporary thinkers and debates, represents a cross-over between German studies, literary and cultural theory, and the history of ideas. Aside from co-editing seven works on critical theory, he has also written several books: Kontext und Kontingenz. Kommunikationstheoretische Überlegungen zur Literaturhistoriographie. Mit einer Fallstudie zur Goethe-Rezeption des Jungen Deutschland (Westdeutscher Verlag, 1995), Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction (Camden House, 2003), Das Ende der Geschichte und der bürgerliche Rechtsstaat. Hegel – Kojève – Fukuyama (Francke, 2007) and, most recently Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), which will be at the core of our events during his residence at FAU.
Henk de Berg will spend the week of July 8th through July 12th at FAU and host or participate in various teaching and discussion formats: He will give an open lecture on “What Can Cultural Studies Tell Us about the Lure of Populism? Reflections on Trump and Hitler” on Tuesday, July 9th from 18-20, in KH 1.012 and host an ExpertLAB on his newest research, which will transition into an International Coffee, open to all students. The International Coffee is an opportunity for students to ask de Berg any and all questions they might have about his work, in terms of both content and context. The event will take place on Wednesday, July 10th from 10-12, in C 301 (Bismarckstraße 1). He will also give a presentation on how academia works abroad, followed by a Q&A, hosted by IZGDD’s Early Career Researchers on Thursday, July 11th from 15.30-17, in C 201. You do not need to register for the events, you are welcome to just come around.
Open Lecture: “What Can Cultural Studies Tell Us about the Lure of Populism? Reflections on Trump and Hitler”
Tuesday, 09.07.2024, 18.15-19.45, KH 1.012
ExpertLAB and International Coffee
Wednesday, 10.07.2024, 10.15-11.45, C 301
Early Career Researchers Senior Service: Academia Abroad
Thursday, 11.07.2024, 15.30-17.00, C 201
Researcher in Residence 2023: Prof. Dr. Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University, USA)
The Chair for English Studies: Culture and Literature is pleased to introduce a new format with Kristin Mahoney as our first Researcher in Residence.
The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationally renowned researchers. The idea is to go beyond the usual types of classes and to be able to get up close and personal with the researcher both on the topic(s) of their research but also their experience in academia in their field and their country. We are excited to launch this project this semester and look forward to many more Researchers in Residence in the future.
Kicking us off as our first guest is Kristin Mahoney. Mahoney is Associate Professor/Chair and Director of Literary Studies at Michigan State University and her research is focused on late-Victorian Decadence and its afterlives in the 20th century. The author of two books, Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Queer Kinship after Wilde (Cambridge University Press, 2022), she leaves behind the strict periodization of Victorianism vs. Modernism and explores, among other things, the topics of politics and sexology in literature and culture of the late 19th and early 20th century. To further research that resists these boundaries of periodization, Mahoney founded and is co-editor of the journal Cusp: Late 19th-/20th-Century Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press). She is currently working on an upcoming collection with Dustin Friedman: Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s (Cambridge University Press).
Kristin Mahoney will spend a week at FAU from December 11th through December 15th and host or participate in various teaching and discussion formats: She will, among other things, visit a (closed) seminar on Victorian Poetry and host a Masterclass on the ekphrastic poems by Michael Field (pseudonym for Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper), which will transition into an International Coffee, open to all students. The International Coffee is an opportunity for students to ask Mahoney any and all questions they might have about her work, in terms of both content and context. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 13th from 10-12, in C 202 (Bismarckstraße 1). She will also give an open lecture on Laurence and Clemens Housman (“’Out and Out from the Family to the Community’: The Housmans and the Politics of Queer Sibling Devotion”) which will take place on Wednesday, December 13th from 4-6, in KH 0.016. You do not need to register for the lecture or the international coffee, you are welcome to just come around.
Open Lecture: “‘Out and Out from the Family to the Community’: The Housmans and the Politics of Queer Sibling Devotion”
Wednesday, 13.12.2023, 16.15-17.45, KH 0.016.
Guest in the seminar Victorian Poetry
Monday, 11.12.2023, 10.15-11.45, KH 1.012
Masterclass and International Coffee:
Wednesday, 13.12.2023, 10.15-111.45, C 202