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Dirk Göttsche

Emeritus Professor,

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Biography

Academic Qualifications

  1. Habilitation (German postdoctoral qualification for Chair), University of Münster (monograph: Zeit im Roman. Literarische Zeitreflexion und die Geschichte des Zeitromans im späten 18. und im 19. Jahrhundert. München: Fink 2001)
  1. Dr. phil. University of Münster (Germany); class: »sum­ma cum laude« (the highest award) with distinction (monograph: Die Produktivität der Sprachkrise in der modernen Prosa. Frankfurt/M.: Athenäum 1987)

1980 MA equivalent "1. Staatsprüfung", University of Münster (with distinction)

(subjects: Germanistik, Anglistik, Philosophy, Education)

Appointments

Since 2003 Professor of German, Department of German Studies, the University of Nottingham

2000-2002 Reader in German, German Department, the University of Nottingham

1981-2000 German Department of Münster Uni­versity (Germany) as »wissenschaftlicher Mit­arbeiter/Assistent« (lecturer) and »Privatdozent« (professorial research fellow)

Distinctions

Elected Member of the Academia Europaea (2012); Honorary President of the International Raabe Society (2013); CHLEL (literary history commission of the ICLA, 2013-2021).

Expertise Summary

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day, and comparative literature. Key areas of research and teaching include the novel of the long 19th century; literary Realism; time, temporality and memory in literature (Memory Studies, Time Studies); modernist German short prose from the 19th century to the present; Austrian modernism and its legacies; postcolonial and intercultural literary studies (incl. discourses about Africa and German-language postcolonial literature); contemporary literature. For details and current projects see the research summary.

Teaching Summary

My undergraduate and postgraduate teaching focuses on German literature and culture from the late 18th century to the present day. In the first year German core module "Introduction to German… read more

Research Summary

My research focuses on German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day, including relevant literary and cultural theory; genre theory and narratology; concepts of history,… read more

Recent Publications

  • DIRK GÖTTSCHE, 2024. Kleine Prosa: The poetics of the draft in prose sketches, prose poems, flash fiction and related small forms. In: OLGA BELOBORODOVA and DIRK VAN HULLE, eds., A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe John Benjamins. 320-333
  • DIRK GÖTTSCHE, 2024. Der Ausflug als Zeit- und Gesellschaftsbild im Erzählen des Realismus Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft. 2023, 15-39
  • GÖTTSCHE, DIRK, 2023. Fontane und der Poetische Realismus. In: PARR, ROLF, RADECKE, GABRIELE, TRILCKE, PEER and BERTSCHIK, JULIA, eds., Theodor Fontane Handbuch de Gruyter. 177-188
  • GÖTTSCHE, DIRK, 2023. German Colonialism in East Africa and its Aftermath in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Novels "Paradise" and "Afterlives" and in Contemporary German Literature German Life and Letters. 76(2), 269-284

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