Dr. Karoline Baumann/CV

Professional experience

 

Since 2019       DAAD lecturer at the University of Debrecen, Hungary (German Department)

2016-2018        Lecturer at Université de Rabat, Morocco (Département d’Études Allemandes)

2013-2016        Free-lance translator and German language instructor, Berlin, Germany

2010-2011       Research assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA (Department of English and Comparative Literature)

 

Education

 

2013                PhD, English Philology, Freie Universität Berlin, magna cum laude

2010-11            visiting research student, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA

2008                M.A., English Philology and German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

 

Grants and scholarships (selected)

 

2019                 DAAD Conference Travel Grant for participation in the conference Fragen zum

Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 

2018                DAAD Conference Travel Grant for participation in the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, USA

 

2017                Renaissance Society of America and Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant (to Chicago)

 

2016                 Renaissance Society of America and Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant (to

Boston)

 

2010-11            Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellowship

 

2009-12            Cusanuswerk Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

 

2009                Society for Renaissance Studies Travel Bursary to Dublin, Ireland

 

 

Conference presentations (selected)

 

“Music as Will and Representation: Functions of Music in Philosophical Discourse”, International Symposium Research in the Arts, the Arts in Research. University of Lodz (online conference), May 2020

 

“Music and Anti-Music: Signs of DADA”, Conference “Inspirationen: Klänge” [Inspirations: Sounds], Department for German Language and Literature of the Gáspár Károli University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2019

 

“Mischform als Gattung? Zur Gattungspoetik Friederike Mayröckers”, [Hybrid/mixed form as genre? On the genre poetics of Friederike Mayröcker] Conference Fragen zum Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie [Questions on the Lyric in Friederike Mayröcker’s Poetry] , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, June 2018

 

 “The Jailer’s Daughter’s Revenge”, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, USA, March 2018

 

“Music as emotion metaphor in Romantic and contemporary German literature, ” 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, Austria, July 2016

 

“Early Modern Temporalities: Time and Shakespeare’s Noble Kinsmen,“ 7th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow, UK, July 2016

 

Star-crossed lovers: Troilus and Cressida’s Hector and Achilles as Figurations of Self and Other,“ Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March 2016

 

“Digital Polychronicities: (Electronic) Music and Literature.” Interdisciplinary conference Music and Literature: Critical Polyphonies, Durham University, UK, July 2015

 

“Reading the Medieval Intertext in Shakespeare’s Pericles,“ Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, March 2015

 

 

Publications (selected)

 

Monograph

 

The Stage as Palimpsest: Conceptions of Time and Temporality in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Bibliotheca Academica, Reihe Literaturwissenschaft. Baden-Baden: Ergon Verlag 2018.

 

Book chapters and articles

 

Hybridität und Gattung. Versuch über die Gattungspoetik Friederike Mayröckers. Inge Arteel/Eleonore de Felip (eds.), Fragen zum Lyrischen in Friederike Mayröckers Poesie. Metzler: Stuttgart 2020, pp. 1-16.

 

Welcome to Interzone: Zwielicht von Robert Schumann aus dem Liederkreis op. 39 nach Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff.  Bamberger Anthologie deutscher Lieder. Online-Anthologie, Universität Bamberg. https://deutschelieder.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/robert-schumann-zwielicht/

 

Wortmaschine: Electronic Music in Contemporary German Literature, in: Postgraduate English No 31, 2015.

 

“(Un)heroic Madness: The Jailer’s Daughter as Playwright and Audience Figure in The Two Noble Kinsmen,” in: Shakespeare Seminar 13, 2015 (Publications of the Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, German Shakespeare Association).

 

Review

 

Andrew Wright Hurley. Into the Groove: Popular Music and Contemporary German Fiction. Rochester, New York: Camden House, Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, 2015. 282 pp. Modern Language Review 111:1, Jan. 2016, 390-391.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: 2023. 06. 08. 11:03