Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik

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  • Universität Freiburg
Academic Discipline / Fields
Arts and humanities, Languages
Languages
Japanese, English, French, Russian, German
Doctorate
  • James Joyce
PostDoc Qualification
  • Portraying speech and thought

Area of Specialisation

  • Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft

Research Interests

  • Narratology
  • Linguistic analysis of literature ("language and literature", stylistics)
  • Postcolonial literary theorie
  • Ästhetik des 18. Jh.
  • Law and Literature Studies
  • Prison literature

Distinctions and Awards

  • Offer of a professorship at the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Germany, 2010 (declined)
  • Shortlisted for the Regius Chair, University of Glasgow, 2004
  • Research award from the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, 2001
  • Offer of a professorship at the University of Vienna, Austria, 1999 (declined)
  • Perkins Prize 1996 for "Towards a 'Natural' Narratology" (ex aequo with Judith Roof for her "Come as You Are"): awarded at the SSNL Conference at Northwestern University, USA, April 1998

Short CV/Education and Training

  • 1994 Call to Freiburg University (accepted)

Selected Publications

  • Towards a "Natural" Narratology. London/New York: Routledge, 1996.
  • The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction. The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness. London/New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Fludernik, Monika (Hg.) Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor. Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics, 3. London: Routledge, 2011.
  • Fludernik, Monika & Jan Alber (Hg.) Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses. Columbus, OH: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2010.
  • Fludernik, Monika & Hans-Helmuth Gander & Hans-Jörg Albrecht (Hg.) Bausteine zu einer Ethik des Strafens. Philosophische, juristische und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Würzburg: Ergon, 2008.
  • Fludernik, Monika & Greta Olson (Hg.) In the Grip of the Law: Prisons, Trials and the Space Between. Lang, 2004.
  • Fludernik, Monika (Hg.) Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 66. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
  • Fludernik, Monika & Peter Haslinger & Stefan Kaufmann (Hg.) Der Alteritätsdiskurs des Edlen Wilden: Exotismus, Anthropologie und Zivilisationskritik am Beispiel eines europäischen Topos. Identitäten und Alteritäten, 10. Würzburg: Ergon, 2002.

Selected Projects

  • Norm, Law and Criminalization: Discursive, Ethical and Legal Attributions of Norm Contravention, April 2004 - August 2008
  • Identity and Alterity in the New English Literatures: Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism, abgeschlossen im Juni 2003

Membership in Scientific Bodies/Juries

  • Sprecherin des voraussichtlich ab 1.4.2012 laufenden GRKs "Faktuales und Fiktionales Erzählen"
  • Leiterin des Promotionskollegs "Geschichte und Erzählen"
  • (Vize)Sprecherin des SFB 541, 1996 - 2000, 2000 - 2003

Soft Skills/Other Activities and Achievements

Other Activities
  • Interested in participating in the transformation of the university landscape so that it becomes more humane, creative, and family-friendly

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