Dr. Eike Kronshage
Main Areas of Research
Victorianism
Modernism
Elizabethan drama
Aesthetics and poetics
Hermeneutics
Early British film
Career/Job History
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Since Oct. 2014 |
Chemnitz University of Technology: Academic staff member, Chair of English Literature |
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May 2014 – Sept. 2014 |
Dahlem Research School: DRS Honors PostDoc Fellow |
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Oct. 2010 – Jan. 2014 |
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Berlin: Doctoral researcher |
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April 2012 – July 2012 |
University of Cambridge: Visiting Researcher |
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Oct. 2004 – Aug. 2008 |
Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin: M.A. student |
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Sept. 2007 – May 2008 |
Yale University: Visiting researcher and teaching assistant |
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Aug. 2003 – April 2004 |
University of Copenhagen: Exchange student (ERASMUS) |
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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
- „Nah, fern, skalierbar: Die Politik des Lesens von Kanon und Quisquilie.“ SPRACHKUNST. Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft 50:1 (2019).
- “‘Purchased honour’: Economic Expediency in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi.” John Webster’s ‘Dismal Tragedy’, The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered. Ed. Sophie Chiari und Sophie Lemercier-Goddard. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2019, 103-120.
- “Reformation and Transformation: On Religion, Politics, and Economics in Shakespeare’s King John.” Shakespeare Seminar Online 15 (2017; published 2019): 27-42.
- “Weimar Wallace: Three Early German Screen Adaptations of Novels by Edgar Wallace (1931-34).” ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 67:4 (2019)
- "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.
- “Theorien des Nichtlesens.” Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft, Vol. 4: Lesen. Ed. Rolf Parr und Alexander Honold. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018: 211-230.
- "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): 167-180.
- "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
- Review of: Martina Bross, Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage. In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 60 (2019): 405-408.
- Review of David Hawkes, Shakespeare and Economic Theory. In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures (forthcoming).
- 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 (Hrsg.): Literarische Netzwerke im 18. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2019:45-66. - (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
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Keynote: “‘A keen eye for physiognomy’: Lavaters Physiognomik im realistischen englischen Roman George Eliots”. Britisch-Deutsche Wissenschaftsgeschichte(n), Technische Universität Chemnitz. |
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“‘Purchased honour’: Economic Expediency in The Duchess of Malfi”. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered. École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, December 2018. |
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“‘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. |
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“Speaking Faces? Dickens’s Critique of Physiognomics”: The 23rd Annual Dickens Symposium: Dickens and Language, Tübingen, Germany. |
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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. |
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"Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice": Vortrag mit Studierenden vor der Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft Chemnitz e.V., Chemnitz, Germany. |
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"'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. |
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"Theorien des Nichtlesens." |
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"Genre of a City: The Early Modern English City Comedy." |
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(with Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten): "Teacher Training: English Short Plays in the EFL Class Room" |
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"Kommunikation und Körpersemiotik." Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany. |
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"Zur Objektivität physiognomischer Porträts im literarischen Realismus." Internationale Konferenz: Physiognomisches Schreiben. Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. |
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"Closure, Open Endings, and Poetic Justice." 13th International Connotations Symposium: Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts, University of Tübingen, Germany. |
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"'Better to Be Cruel': Inhumanity in Thomas Hardy’s Last Novel, Jude the Obscure (1895)." Talk to the German-British Society Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany. |
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"Kirche und Gesetz in Anthony Trollopes The Warden (1855)." Lecture Series "Victorian Anniversaries", Universitas Chemnitz. |
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"Crisis of the Humanities: The First 150 Years." Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe, University of Milan, Italy. |
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"Physiognomisches Verstehen, physiognomische Verständigung. Über die Persistenz historischer Körpersemiotiken" Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany. |
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"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. |
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"'Feast-won, fast-lost': Mock banquets in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens" Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Celebrating Shakespeare, Weimar, Germany |
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"George Eliot's Poetic Epigraphs in Daniel Deronda." 12th International Connotations Symposium: Poetry in Fiction, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. |
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"'More in countenance than language.' Physiognomic Language in Foreign Cultural Surroundings in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette." |
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"(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
- Encountering the Other in Shakespeare (MA seminar; Winter 2019/20)
- Beyond Shakespeare (MA seminar; Winter 2019/20)
- Imperial Adventure Fiction (MA seminar; Spring 2019)
- J.M. Coetzee and Postcolonial Violence (MA seminar; Winter 2018/19)
- Shakespeare’s Roman Plays (BA seminar; Winter 2018/19)
- 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
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
Connotations: Society for Critical Debate
Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft
Dickens Society
Ernst-Reuter Gesellschaft der Förderer und Freunde der Freien Universität Berlin e.V.
European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
Peter Szondi-Institut: Alumni-Vereinigung e.V.
Renaissance Society of America (RSA)