Englisches Seminar

Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer

Recent Publications

Atkinson, Laurie. Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas. Boydell & Brewer, 2024, 236 pages. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846925/ideas-of-authorship-in-the-english-and-scottish-dream-vision

Poston, Dan. Joseph Addison: An Intellectual Biography. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, 344 pages. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5464/

Zirker, Angelika, and Michael Göggelmann. "Case Study: Annotationg the Ambiguous Modality of must in Jane Austen's Emma." Digital Humanities Quarterly 17.3 (2023). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/3/000727/000727.html

Bauer, Matthias, and Angelika Zirker. "Die Ambiguität des Schein(en)s und ihr Erkenntnispotential: appear - seem - shine." Schein und Anschein: Dynamiken ästhetischer Praxis in der Vormoderne. Ed. Annette Gerok-Reiter, Martin Kovacs, Volker Leppin, and Irmgard Männlein-Robert. Berlin: deGruyter 2023. 3-17. DOI: 10.1515/9783110725391-001

 


News


Lecture Series "Digital Humanities: Applications, Possibilities, Tools"

Starting on 23 April, the University of Tuebingen will host a series of lectures covering the cutting-edge field of digital humanities. As scholars who have been active in this area for many years now, professors Bauer and Zirker will each give one lecture, with Angelika Zirker also co-hosting the opening session.

If you already want to mark your calendar, you can find the full programme of the lecture series here.


Discover Literary Anniversaries - February 2024

The Pastor's wife by Elizabeth Arnim was a long forgotten novel, despite it being appraised by critics and it being an important feminist novel. Francesca Pierini's contribution to our "Discover Literary Anniversary" series sheds more light on this novel and shows us why it deserves more attention...Click here to read more on our Connotations website. 


Discover Literary Anniversaries - December (19th), 2023

What does the expression "dead as a door-nail" have to do with Christmas? And how does such a morbid topic serve as an introduction to a heartwarming Christmas story still popular to this day? Find out more in this month's literary anniversary contribution on Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" by Angelika Zirker on our Connotations website. And while you are there, don't forget to check out our Advent Calendar! 


Discover Literary Anniversaries - November 2023

"2023 marks the bicentenary of the foundation of the Edinburgh Bannatyne Club. Why an antiquarian printing society, dissolved after less than forty years, should warrant commemoration may not immediately be clear. But read on..." Find out more about this month's literary anniversary written by Laurie Atkinson on our Connotations Website.


Exhibition "Co-Creativity in English Literature Throughout Time: From Shakespeare to FanFiction"

We are happy to announce that the exhibition "Co-Creativity in English Literature Throughout Time: From Shakespeare to FanFiction", hosted by project C05 "The aesthetics of co-creativity in early modern English literature" of the CRC 1391: Different Aesthetics, is now ready for your visit. Come and see how diverse the products of co-creativity used to be in Shakespeare's time and still are today. Experience being a co-creator yourself by taking part in the interactive Commonplace Board which is part of the exhibition at the entrance to the Ammerbau. Everyone who cannot make it to the exhibition in person is invited to enjoy photos of it and some additional information online: https://co-kreativitaet-ub.de/.