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Dr. Eike Kronshage

Phone:

+49 371 531-39245

Fax:

+49 371 531-839245

Room:

Reichenhainer Straße 39, 215

Email:

eike.kronshage@...

Office hours:

Tuesdays, 4-5 pm (by appointment only!)
Please register via email in advance.

Office hours during term break
Tue, 28 August, 3-5pm
Tue, 18 September, 3-5pm
(by appointment only!)

Main Areas of Research

Victorianism
Modernism
Elizabethan drama
Aesthetics and poetics
Hermeneutics
Early British film

Career/Job History

Since Oct. 2014	Chemnitz University of Technology: Academic staff member, Chair of English Literature
May 2014 – Sept. 2014	Dahlem Research School: DRS Honors PostDoc Fellow
Oct. 2010 – Jan. 2014	Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Berlin: Doctoral researcher
April 2012 – July 2012	University of Cambridge: Visiting Researcher
Oct. 2004 – Aug. 2008	Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin: M.A. student
Sept. 2007 – May 2008	Yale University: Visiting researcher and teaching assistant
Aug. 2003 – April 2004	University of Copenhagen: Exchange student (ERASMUS)
Oct. 2001 – May 2004	Ludwig-Maximilians University: B.A. student of Comparative Literature

Publications

Monographs

Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Editorial Works

Crisis, Risks, New Regionalisms. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today 8.

Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Knapp, Lore, and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures 11.

Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Sandten, Cecile, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT, 2015. CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today 5.

Articles

"Parasitic Picaresque. R.S. Surtees's Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour." Das Enigma des Pikaresken/The Enigma of the Picaresque. Ed. Jens Elze. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018: 89-105.
„Nah, fern, skalierbar: Die Politik des Lesens von Kanon und Quisquilie.“ SPRACHKUNST. Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft (2018). (forthcoming)
“Reformation and Transformation: On Religion and Economics in Shakespeare’s King John”. Shakespeare Seminar Online 17 (2017). (forthcoming)
"Conspicuous Consumption, Croyance, and the Problem of the Two Timons: Shakespeare's Timon of Athens." Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 18:3 (2017): 262-274.
(with Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, and Roberto Pedretti): "Introduction." Crisis, Risks, New Regionalisms. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017: 11-23.
"'Nothing Truer Than Physiognomy': Body Semiotics and Agency in Charles Dickens's 'Hunted Down' (1859)." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 48 (2017).
"Theorien des Nichtlesens." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft, Vol. 4: Lesen. Ed. Rolf Parr und Alexander Honold. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. (forthcoming)
"Weimar Wallace: Three German Screen Adaptations of Novels by Edgar Wallace (1931-34)." (under peer review).
"Lavaters physiognomische Apodemik in Reisebeschreibungen deutscher Englandreisender im späten achtzehnten Jahrhundert." Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 153-170.
(with Lore Knapp): "Einleitung". Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 1-20.
"On the Scientific Status of Literary Physiognomics in Victorian Realism: The Novels of Charlotte Brontë." Physiognomisches Schreiben: Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik. Ed. Hans-Georg von Arburg, Elias Zimmermann, Benedikt Tremp. Freiburg: Rombach, 2016: 125-139.
"Palimpsestic Layers: Urban Aesthetics and Social Criticism in Charles Dickens's 'Night Walks'." Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Winfried Thielmann, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT, 2015. 79-92.
(with Cecile Sandten and Winfried Thielmann). "Introduction". Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT, 2015: 1-11.
"The Function of Poetic Epigraphs in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 23.2 (2014): 230-60.

Miscellaneous

Translation of: Bruno Latour: “On Actor-Network Theory: A Few Clarifications.” Soziale Welt 47:4 (1996): 369-381.
“Über die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie. Einige Klarstellungen.” Übers. v. Eike Kronshage. In: Lore Knapp (Ed.): Literarische Netzwerke im 18. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2018.
(with Stefan Schukowski) Shakespeare's Sonnet 155. Shakespeare Sonnet Generator. Commissioned by Prof. Erika Greber. See: Greber, Erika. "Triskaidekaphobia? Sonettzahlen und Zahlensonette." Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren: Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur. Ed. Andrea Albrecht, Gesa von Essen, and Werner Frick. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. 214-247 (especially 231-32).
Gesichter - Faces. 23.03.2010 - 25.03.2010, Berlin. Conference Proceedings. H-Soz-u-Kult, 17.04.2010.
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Translator. On James Joyce's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang." Yale Modernism Lab, New Haven, 2008.
Farø, Ken: Universal-Wörterbuch Dänisch: dänisch-deutsch, deutsch-dänisch. [Dictionary Danish-German]. Editors of the revised edition: Eike Kronshage and Kerstin Klingelhöffer. Langenscheidt KG, Munich, 2005.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

Jul. 2018	“‘You would call that lad a degenerate?’ Measuring Intellectual (Dis)Ability Through Phrenology in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent.”: Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950. Canterbury, Kent, England.
Jul. 2018	“Speaking Faces? Dickens’s Critique of Physiognomics”: The 23rd Annual Dickens Symposium: Dickens and Language, Tübingen, Germany.
Sep. 2018	Sep. 2018: “‘Red-hot applications on their vile skins.’ Ironic Transparency in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent”: Anglistentag 2018, Panel: Victorian Surfaces: Skin, Silk, and Show in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Bonn, Germany.
Jun. 2017	"Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice": Vortrag mit Studierenden vor der Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft Chemnitz e.V., Chemnitz, Germany.
Apr. 2017	"'Kings break faith upon commodity': Religious Crisis and Economic Transformation in Shakespeare's King John": Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Shakespeare and Reformation, Weimar, Germany.
Jul. 2016	"Theorien des Nichtlesens." 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA 2016), Vienna, Austria.
Jul. 2016	"Genre of a City: The Early Modern English City Comedy." Lecture Series "The City", University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.
Nov. 2015	(with Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten): "Teacher Training: English Short Plays in the EFL Class Room" University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.
Nov. 2015	"Kommunikation und Körpersemiotik." Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.
Sept. 2015	"Zur Objektivität physiognomischer Porträts im literarischen Realismus." Internationale Konferenz: Physiognomisches Schreiben. Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
July 2015	"Closure, Open Endings, and Poetic Justice." 13th International Connotations Symposium: Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts, University of Tübingen, Germany.
June 2015	"'Better to Be Cruel': Inhumanity in Thomas Hardy’s Last Novel, Jude the Obscure (1895)." Talk to the German-British Society Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany.
June 2015	"Kirche und Gesetz in Anthony Trollopes The Warden (1855)." Lecture Series "Victorian Anniversaries", Universitas Chemnitz.
Dec. 2014	"Crisis of the Humanities: The First 150 Years." Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe, University of Milan, Italy.
Nov. 2014	"Physiognomisches Verstehen, physiognomische Verständigung. Über die Persistenz historischer Körpersemiotiken" Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany.
May 2014	"Narratives of Degeneration in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent." Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Anglistik. Auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Susanne Scholz.
April 2014	"'Feast-won, fast-lost': Mock banquets in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens" Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Celebrating Shakespeare, Weimar, Germany
July 2013	"George Eliot's Poetic Epigraphs in Daniel Deronda." 12th International Connotations Symposium: Poetry in Fiction, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Oct. 2012	"'More in countenance than language.' Physiognomic Language in Foreign Cultural Surroundings in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette."
July 2012	"(Sur)Face. Physiognomics in Mid-Victorian Realism." Graduate Workshop: Surface Reading? What We Do to Texts and Other Media, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.

Teaching

Since 10/2014: University of Technology Chemnitz, Institute for English and American Studies

Marx and Shakespeare (BA seminar; Spring 2018)
Revenge Tragedies in Early Modern England (MA Seminar; Spring 2017)
The Novels of Jane Austen (BA Seminar; Spring 2017)
Theories and Methods (BA Seminar; Spring 2017/Spring 2018)
Shakespeare's Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear (BA Lecture; Winter 2016)
The British Espionage Novel in the Early Twentieth Century (BA Seminar; Winter 2016)
Organizer of the five-year lecture series: "Viktorianische Jubiläen"
The Brontë Sisters (BA Seminar; Spring 2016)
Alfred Hitchcock: Narrative Cinema (BA Seminar; Winter 2015)
Economy & Drama: From Shakespeare to Webster (MA Seminar; Spring 2015)
Introduction to the Study of Literatures in English (Lecture; Winter 2014)

10/2014 – 09/2015: Free University Berlin, Institute for Comparative Literature

Mimesis: Literary Representation of Reality (BA Seminar; Spring 2015)
Typology of Reading (MA Seminar; Winter 2014)

10/2013 – 03/2014: University Potsdam, Institute for English and American Studies

Introduction to Literary Studies (BA Seminar; Winter 2013)

10/2011 – 03/2014: Free University Berlin, Institute for English Studies

Making of the English Literary Canon (BA Seminar; Spring 2014)
Introduction to Literary Studies (BA Seminar; Winter 2013)
Joseph Conrad’s Spy Fiction (BA Seminar; Winter 2013)
Representation of Britishness in Film & Fiction (BA Seminar; Winter 2013)
Charles Dickens and London (BA Seminar; Winter 2012)
Mid-Victorian Realism: Elizabeth Gaskell & George Eliot (BA Seminar; Winter 2011)

09/2007 – 06/2008: Yale University, Department of German

German for Reading (Spring 2008)
Undergraduate Tutorial (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)

Professional Memberships

	Brontë Society
	Connotations Society for Critical Debate
	Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
	Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
	Dickens Society
	Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft e.V.
	European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
	Modern Language Association (MLA)
	Peter Szondi Institut: Alumni-Vereinigung e.V.
	Renaissance Society of America (RSA)