im Sommersemester 2011

Michèle Lowrie

Michèle Lowrie works on Republican and Augustan literature and culture. She did her undergraduate studies at Yale (1984) and her graduate at Harvard (1990). After teaching at New York University from 1990 to 2009, where she was one of the founders and co-directors of the Poetics and Theory Program, she joined the University of Chicago as Professor of Classics and the College last year. Monographs are Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Oxford 2009) and Horace's Narrative Odes (Oxford 1997). She has also edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Odes and Epodes (2009), and co-edited with Sarah Spence a special volume of Literary Imagination (2.3 2006), The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil. She is currently working on a short book entitled From Safety to Security: Roman Literature in the Transition to Empire as well as a larger project called Consequential Narratives: Foundation and State Violence from Cicero to Augustus, which examines the use of the exemplum to justify political murder in the collapse of the Roman Republic. She has won the Presidential Fellowship from NYU, the Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS, is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was the visiting professor at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg, fall 2005.

im Wintersemester 2010/2011

Michèle Lowrie

Michèle Lowrie works on Republican and Augustan literature and culture. She did her undergraduate studies at Yale (1984) and her graduate at Harvard (1990). After teaching at New York University from 1990 to 2009, where she was one of the founders and co-directors of the Poetics and Theory Program, she joined the University of Chicago as Professor of Classics and the College last year. Monographs are Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Oxford 2009) and Horace's Narrative Odes (Oxford 1997). She has also edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Odes and Epodes (2009), and co-edited with Sarah Spence a special volume of Literary Imagination (2.3 2006), The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil. She is currently working on a short book entitled From Safety to Security: Roman Literature in the Transition to Empire as well as a larger project called Consequential Narratives: Foundation and State Violence from Cicero to Augustus, which examines the use of the exemplum to justify political murder in the collapse of the Roman Republic. She has won the Presidential Fellowship from NYU, the Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS, is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was the visiting professor at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg, fall 2005.

Christiane Frey

Christiane Frey studied Comparative and German Literatures, French and Italian Philology with minor concentrations in Philosophy and Theology mainly in Bonn, Paris, Perugia and Giessen. She received her M. A. from the University of Paris Sorbonne (Lettres comparées) and studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Bonn (Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaften). Her teaching and research interests focus on the correlations between aesthetics and anthropology (in the 18th century sense of the word, meaning a conception of man based on medical knowledge) from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries, especially around 1800. Other interests are the idea of Kallipädie around 1900; the history of educating and testing intellectual talents (Prüfung der Köpfe) since the Renaissance; and concepts of time from Friedrich Schiller to Victor Hugo. Her dissertation was titled Laune: Inkonstanz und Individualität in Ästhetik und Anthropologie um 1800. She is currently revising it for publication. Her current long-term project concerns the function and rhetoric of secularization and the survival of Jewish-Christian dichotomies from Luther to Derrida. In 2003, she co-edited a book on Darstellbarkeit: Zu einem ästhetisch-philosophischen Problem um 1800 (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann). Forthcoming are articles on “Fallgeschichte(n) in Karl Philipp Moritz and Philippe Pinel” and on “Poetological Reflexions in Paul Valéry and Rainer Maria Rilke,” as well as an internet lexicon of works relating to the history of knowledge.

 

im Sommersemester 2009

Johannes Harnischfeger

Ethnologe, promovierter Literaturwissenschaftler und promovierter Politologe, beschäftigt sich in der Folge zahlreicher und teils langjähriger Afrikaaufenthalte seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre mit Phänomenen desStaatszerfalls und den Versuchen, jenseits westlicher Verfassungsmodelle neue Ordnungsstrukturen aufzubauen. Neueste Veröffentlichungen aus diesemZusammenhang: Democratization and Islamic Law. The Sharia Conflict in Nigeria. Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2008 (dt. Demokratisierung und Islamisches Recht. Der Scharia-Konflikt in Nigeria. Frankfurt/New York:Campus 2006.)

 

im Sommersemester 2008

Michèle Lowrie

 

Michèle Lowrie works on Republican and Augustan literature and culture. She did her undergraduate studies at Yale (1984) and her graduate at Harvard (1990). After teaching at New York University from 1990 to 2009, where she was one of the founders and co-directors of the Poetics and Theory Program, she joined the University of Chicago as Professor of Classics and the College last year. Monographs are Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Oxford 2009) and Horace's Narrative Odes (Oxford 1997). She has also edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Odes and Epodes (2009), and co-edited with Sarah Spence a special volume of Literary Imagination (2.3 2006), The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil. She is currently working on a short book entitled From Safety to Security: Roman Literature in the Transition to Empire as well as a larger project called Consequential Narratives: Foundation and State Violence from Cicero to Augustus, which examines the use of the exemplum to justify political murder in the collapse of the Roman Republic. She has won the Presidential Fellowship from NYU, the Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS, is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was the visiting professor at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg, fall 2005.

 

im Sommersemester 2007

 

Eric Santner

 

Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies (University of Chicago) as of July 1, 2000 was named the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies in September 2003. He joined the Chicago department in autumn 1996 after twelve years of teaching at Princeton University. His books include Friedrich Hölderlin. Narrative Vigilance and the Poetic Imagination; Stranded Objects. Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany; My Own Private Germany. Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity; On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (winner Honorable Mention, Koret Jewish Book Prize in Philosophy and Religious Thought; Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize of the MLA; Honorable Mention, Rene Wellek Prize of the ACLA); Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Moishe Postone. Two new books appeared in 2005-06: The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (University of Chicago Press), written with Slavoj Zizek and Kenneth Reinhard; On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald (University of Chicago Press). Santner continues to work at the intersection of literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and religious thought.

 

im Sommersemester 2006

 

Iris Därmann

 

1982 – 1989 Studium der Philosophie, Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Abschluß: Magister

1992 – 1993 Doktorandin am Graduiertenkolleg „Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik“ der Universität Bochum

Promotion mit einer Arbeit über „Tod und Bild. Eine phänomenologische Mediengeschichte“

1994 – 1996  Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin des Graduiertenkollegs „Phänomenologie und Hermeneutik“ der Universität Bochum

1996 – 1997 Habilitationsstipendium des Lise-Meitner-Programms NRW

seit 1997 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Kulturtheorie der Universität Lüneburg

2000 – 2002 Habilitationsstipendium der DFG

2003 Habilitation mit einer Arbeit über die „Vertagte Indianisierung Europas. Die ethnologische Provokation der Philosophie“

2005 – 2006 Visiting Fellowship am Internationalen Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Wien

 

Forschungs- und Arbeitsschwerpunkte

  • Bild- und Repräsentationstheorien

  • Phänomenologie, Psychoanalyse, französische Gegenwartsphilosophie

  • Kulturtheorien, Ethnologie, Konzepte des Fremden

  • Tragödientheorien

  • Theorien des politischen Körpers

Anson Rabinbach

Prof. Rabinbach is a specialist in modern European history with an emphasis on intellectual and cultural history; he is the Director of European Cultural Studies at Princeton University. He has published extensively on Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth century. In 1974 he co-founded the premier journal of German studies in the United States, New German Critique, which he continues to co-edit. In 1979 he published The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War 1927-1934, a study of Austrian culture and politics between the wars. The Human Motor, an investigation of the metaphor of work and energy that provided modern thinkers with a new scientific and cultural framework to understand the human body, appeared in 1991 and has since been translated into several languages. His current research is on the culture of Nazi Germany and on post-World War II exchanges between European and American intellectuals.

William Rasch

William Rasch is Professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University, Ph.D. (German) 1989, University of Washington (Seattle). His current research is on german social and political theory, contemporary literary theory, culture studies, Romantic theory, idealist philosophy and eighteenth-century literature. His publications include: Niklas Luhmann’s Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation (2000); Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity (2000, co-ed.); Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity (Essays von Luhmann, 2002, ed.); Konflikt als Beruf: Über die Möglichkeiten des Politischen (2003).

 

im Wintersemester 2005

Peter Fritzsche

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


 Professor Fritzsche specializes in modern German and European history and is a former Guggenheim and Humboldt Fellow. Professor Fritzsche's current research focuses on comparative questions of memory and identity and vernacular uses of the past in modern Europe. His most recent book is Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004); his other publications include Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany (1990); A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination (1992); Reading Berlin 1900 (1996); and Germans into Nazis (1998). With Charles C. Stewart, he edited Imagining the Twentieth Century (1997). Peter Fritzsche received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986.

 

 

im Wintersemester 2004/05 

Friedrich Balke

vom Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskolleg "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation" (Universität zu Köln).

1982-1989 Studium an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Philosophie, Germanistik und Pädagogik.
Abschluss: Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (Sek. II u. I).
1990-1992 Doktorand am Graduiertenkolleg "Kommunikationsformen als Lebensformen" der Universität Siegen.
1993-1994 Lektoratsassistenz im Wissenschaftslektorat des S. Fischer Verlages.
1995 Promotion mit einer Arbeit über die Kultur- und Zeitdiagnostik Carl Schmitts;
1996-2000 Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator des Graduiertenkollegs "Intermedialität" der Universität-Gesamthochschule Siegen.
Seit 2000 Wissenschaftlicher Geschäftsführer des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskollegs "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation" (SFB/FK 427).

Forschungsgebiete und Arbeitsschwerpunkte

  • Medien- und Kulturtheorie

  • Form- und Funktionswandel der Souveränität

  • Französische Gegenwartsphilosophie

  • Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Weitere Informationen und eine Publikationsliste unter: www.uni-koeln.de/inter-fak/fk-427/