Kontakt
Schellingstraße 3 (RG)
80799 München
Raum:
057 RG
Telefon:
+49 (0)89 2180-3934
E-Mail:
ingo.berensmeyer@anglistik.uni-muenchen.de
Sprechstunde:
Prof. Berensmeyer is on research leave until October 2023. Office hours by appointment.
siehe LSF (bei Fehlermeldung bitte in LSF einloggen)
Sekretariat:
raphaela.loosen@lmu.de
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ABOUT
Ingo Berensmeyer is Professor of Modern English Literature at LMU Munich. He is the author of John Banville: Fictions of Order. Authority, Authorship, Authenticity (Heidelberg, 2000) and Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700: Angles of Contingency (Berlin and Boston, 2020). He has also written study guides to Shakespeare's Hamlet (Stuttgart 2007) and to Literary Theory (Stuttgart 2009), and (co-)edited several volumes and journal issues, including The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (2019). He has published some 80 essays in collections and journals, including New Literary History, Poetics Today, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Anglia, Poetica and Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.
Events
Symposium "The Unknown 1922" https://theunknown1922.wordpress.co
Podcast
LMU members can access all episodes of Professor Joanna Rostek’s Victorian Novel Podcast via LMU-Cast: https://cast.itunes.uni-muenchen.de/vod/playlists/Yar7VTztcI.html
Main fields of research
English literature of the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries
Literary theory and aesthetics
Authorship studies and book history
Research projects:
- Author Fictions: Literary Authorship and Authorpoiesis in Modern
English Literature” (VW Foundation “Opus magnum” grant, 2021–2022)
- Research on Authorship as Performance (RAP@UGent), Ghent University , 2009–2014
[Link: http://www.rap.ugent.be ]
- DFG funded project "British Women Writers 1945-1960" http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/264357
- Database "British Women Writers 1945-1960": https://www.bwwbio.gwi.uni-muenchen.de
External funding
2020-22: "Signal and Sign: Prehistories of Connectivity" (Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership) 2015-22: "British Women Writers 1945-1960: Documentation, Interpretation, Cultural Impact Research". Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
2013–14: "Angry Young Women? Englische Schriftstellerinnen und literarische Konstruktionen von Weiblichkeit in den 1950er Jahren." Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.
2008: Six-year collaborative research project "Authorship as Cultural Performance: Citing/Siting the Author", with Gert Buelens and Marysa Demoor. Financed by the Special Research Fund of Ghent University.
2006: Five-year research budget financed by the Special Research Fund of Ghent University, Belgium.
2002–03: Postdoctoral research grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Memberships
Academia Europea (2019)
Deutscher Anglistenverband
International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE)
Deutscher Hochschulverband
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
European Shakespeare Research Association
International Spenser Society
Renaissance Society of America (2017)
Functions
2017: Co-editor, Contributions to English and American Studies book series (Peter Lang)
2015–2017 : Academic advisory board member, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
2014–2017: Directorial board member, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen
2013–2017: Advisory board member, Deutscher Anglistenverband
2011–: Co-editor of Authorship e-journal <http:www.authorship.ugent.be>
2009–2018 Principal Investigator, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen
Peer reviewing for various international journals, publishers and funding agencies including DFG, DAAD, ERC, FRS-FNRS, GACR