Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer

Englisches Seminar
Englisches Seminar
Chair of British Studies
Room ES 222
Johannisstr. 12-20
48143 Münster
T: +49 (0)251- 8 24291
stiersto@uni-muenster.de
  • Research Foci

    • Literary Theory and Literary History
    • Law and Literatur
    • Fundamentalism and Literature
    • Diaspora Studies
  • CV

    Academic Education

    Habilitation
    Teacher training and second State Exam
    Doctoral studies, Keble College, University Oxford
    First university degree in English and Theology, University Regensburg
    Undergraduate studies in english and theology at the Universities Oxford and Regensburg

    Positions

    Professor of British Studies, WWU
    Professor of English Studies, HHU Düsseldorf
    Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Würzburg
    Research scholarship, DFG
    Junior research fellow, St Cross College, University Oxford

    Honors

    Short Stay Visiting Fellowship – Institute of Advanced Studies, Teh University of Western Australia, Perth

    External Functions

    Corresponding Fellow, English Association, Leicester
    Vice president, Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V
    President, Deutscher Anglistenverband e.V.
    Vice President, Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft

    Appointments

    Professor of Anglistik, Duisburg-Essen (not accepted)
    , Anglistik – rejected
    Professor of british studies, WWU
    University of Münster, British Studies – accepted
    Professor of english studies, HHU Düsseldorf
    , english studies
  • Teaching

     

  • Projects

    • Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftler im Spanien der frühen Neuzeit. Die offizielle und die verborgene Seite ()
      Scientific Event: DFG - International Scientific Events | Project Number: STR 278/34-1
    • CRC 1385: Law and Literature - Z: Central Administrative Project ()
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, Z
    • CRC 1386: Law and Literature - S01: Enzyclopedia-Project ()
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, S01
    • CRC 1385: Law and Literature - MGK: Integrated Research Training Group ()
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, MGK
    • CRC 1385: Law and Literature - C02: Literature as Equity in British Cultural History ()
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1, C02
    • CRC 1385: Law and Literature ()
      Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: SFB 1385/1
    • Tagung „Harmonie und Rhythmus des Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos in der frühen Neuzeit und heute", 9.-10. Juni 2023, Münster ()
      Scientific Event: Fritz Thyssen Foundation | Project Number: 30.23.0.026SL
    • Poetic Modelling and Energy Transition - Development and Application of a Transdisciplinary Theory of Models ()
      Participation in other joint Project: Other public funder, Volkswagen Foundation - Off the Beaten Track | Project Number: 93293
    • Internationale wissenschaftliche Tagung "Zur Querelle des Anciens et des Modemes im 19. Jahrhundert in Frankreich" ()
      Scientific Event: Fritz Thyssen Foundation - Support of Conferences | Project Number: 30.22.0.009SL
    • Internationale wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung: "Der Theologe im Spanien der Frühen Neuzeit: Weltliche und geistliche Lebensformen - politische, soziale und ästhetische Wirkungsformen" ()
      Scientific Event: DFG - International Scientific Events | Project Number: STR 278/32-1
    • RTG 1886: Literary Form - Historical and Cultural Formations of Aesthetic Models ()
      Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Research Training Group | Project Number: GRK 1886/1
    • COHAB – Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging ()
      EU-Project Hosted at University the of Münster: EC FP 7 - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks | Project Number: 289672
    • "Orbis Britannicus versus Orbis Europaeus?" Negotiations of National and European Identities in British and Irish Literature ()
      Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: KL 2443/1-1; STI 133/12-1
    • Verlängerung Gastdozentur Prof. Dr. Sridhar Rajeswaran ()
      Participation in other joint Project: German Academic Exchange Service | Project Number: 54418020, 29150241
    • DSC – Diaspora Project Consortium ()
      EU-Project Hosted at University the of Münster: EC - Lifelong Learning Programme: Erasmus | Project Number: 160725-EM-1-2009-1-DE-ERA MUNDUS-CANTEP
    • Teilfinanzierung Gastdozentur von Frau Professor Dr. Nilufer Bharucha ()
      Participation in other joint Project: German Academic Exchange Service | Project Number: A 07 08183-221
  • Publications

    • , and . . “Squaring Law and Literature: Materiality – Comparativity – Constitutivity.Law and Literature, 35 (3): 457489. doi: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2052598.
    • , , and . . “Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur / Encyclopedia of Law and Literature.
    • , , and . . “Über diese Enzyklopädie.” , 17.10.2022 Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur
    • , , and . . “About this Encyclopedia.” , 17.10.2022 Encyclopedia of Law and Literature
    • , and . . “Squaring Law and Literature: Materiality – Comparativity – Constitutivity.Law & Literature doi: 10.1080/1535685X.2022.2052598.
    • , , and . . “Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature.” in Citizenship, Law and Literature, edited by Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110749830-001.
    • Koegler, Caroline, Reddig, Jesper, and Stierstorfer, Klaus, eds. . Law and Literature, Citizenship, Law and Literature, Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110749830.
    • . . “Bollywood in Indian Diasporic Literature.” in Culture and Literature in EFL Education. Relating Theory to Practice, edited by Theresa Summer. Lausanne: Peter Lang.
    • . . “The Revival of Legal Humanism.” in Law and Literature, Cambridge Critical Concepts, edited by Dolin Kieran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Matthias, Erdbeer, Florian, Kläger, and Stierstorfer, Klaus, eds. . Anglistische Forschungen, Literarische Form / Literary Form, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, Wilson, Janet, and Eds., eds. . Routledge Readers, The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader, London: Routledge.
    • . . “Brückenkopf Britannien. Zur Europa-Sehnsucht anglophiler Modernisten.” in Europa gibt es doch ... Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literature, edited by Wagner-Egelhaaf Kläger Florian and Hg. Martina. Paderborn / München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
    • , , and . . “La Forma Literaria.Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, 56: 4547.
    • Carpi, Daniela Stierstorfer Klaus, ed. . Diaspora, Law and Literature , Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Fundamentalism and Postcoloniality: Beyond "Westoxification"?” in The Future of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Chantal Zabus. London: Routledge.
    • , and . “Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on "Diaspora and Home".” in Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by F. Kläger and K. Stierstorfer. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • Kläger, Florian Stierstorfer Klaus, ed. . Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • , and . . ““ ‘21 Grams’: Interdisciplinarity and the Assessment of Quality in the Humanities”.” in Research Quality in the Humanities: Towards Criteria and Procedures for Evaluating Research, edited by Daniel, H-D, OchsnerM, Hug S E and Eds.. Düsseldorf: Springer VDI Verlag.
    • , and . “Introduction.” in Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by F. Kläger and K. Stierstorfer. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Robert Chambers (1802-1971): Wie die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung die Evolutionstheorie erfand.” in Literaturgeschichte. Theorien - Modelle - Praktiken, Vol.138 of Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur, edited by M. Buschmeier, W. Erhart and K. Kauffmann. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), Christopher Monger (dir.).” in Film (Part I), Vol.3 of Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, edited by Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Susanne, Peters, Klaus, Stierstorfer, Dirk, Vanderbeke, Laurenz, Volkmann, and Eds., eds. . Teaching Contemporary Film, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • . . “Linguistic Turun.” in  Metzler Lexikon Literatur- and Kulturtheorie, edited by Hg. Nünning Ansgar. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Review, The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, ed. Ato Quayson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 2 vols.Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, 12/13: 405408.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus Ed., ed. . Inhaltliche Anforderungen für Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Studienfach Englisch , Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • . . “Introduction.” in Burning Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature, edited by Pesso-Ciquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus and eds.. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • . . “Postmodernism.” in English and American Studies. Theory and Practice, edited by Middeke Martin, Müller Timo, Wald Christina, Zapf Hubert and Eds.. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • Catherine, Pesso-Miquel, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Buringin Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • . . “ Rev. Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements, ed. Humeira Iqtidar and David Lehmann. Critical Concept in Religious Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 12 (3-4): 348351.
    • . . “Review, April London, Literary History Writing, 1770-1820 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).ZAA, 60 (2): 192194.
    • . . “Law and (which?) Literature: New Directions in Post-Theory?Law and Humanities, 5 (1): 4151.
    • . . “Review, Magrit Frölich, Christian Schneider, Karsten Visarius (eds), Projektionen des Fundamentalismus. Reflexionen und Gegenbilder im Film (Marburg: Schüren Verlag, 2008).Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 248: 214216.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • . . “Who Owns Britain? S.T. Coleridge and the National Trust.Pólemos. Rivista semestrale di diritto, politica e cultura, 2011 (1): 173185.
    • . . “The British 'Intrusion Play': Victorians and After.” in Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature, Vol.9 of AMS Studies in Cultural History, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus Ed., ed. . In Quest of Nothing: Selected Essays of Ihab Hassan, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • Heinz, Antor, Matthias, Merkl, Klaus, Stierstorfer, Laurenz, Volkmann, and Eds., eds. . From Interculturalism to Transculturalism. Mediating Encounters in Cosmopolitan Contexts, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed. . Constructions of Home: Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture, Law, and Literature, New York.
    • . . “Fundamentalism as Other: Readings in Literature, Ethics and Philosophy.” in Writing Fundamentalism, edited by Axel Stierstorfer Klaus Stähler. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • . . “James Macpherson, The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by hg. Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Hg. Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Einen Jux will er sich machen.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Arnold, Heinz Ludwig and Hg.. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “George Lillo, The London Merchant.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Hg. Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Jerome Klapka Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Hg. Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “William Cowper, "The Task".” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by ARnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Geoffrey Chaucer, Troylus and Criseyde.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Hg. Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew, or the Merry Beggars.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Richard Brome, The City Wit, or the Woman Wears the Breeches”.” in Kindlers Literaturlexikon, edited by Arnold Heinz Ludwig. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
    • . . “Review, Raymond John Howego, Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940. The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization in the Oceans, the Islands, New Zealand and the Polar Regions from 1850 to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2006); and Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940. Continental Exploration: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas from 1850 to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2008).Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, 9: 383386.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, and Stähler, Axel, eds. . Writing Fundamentalism, Newcastle upon Tyne.
    • . . “Introduction.” in Literary encounters of fundamentalism: A case book, Vol.385 of Anglistische Forschungen, edited by Annette Stierstorfer Klaus Kern-Stähler. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • . . “Antipodean Geographies: Australian ‘Translations’.” in Cultures of Translation, Anglistische Forschungen, edited by Gomille Monika, Stierstorfer Klaus and Eds.. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • , , and . . “Introduction.” in Fundamentalism and Literature: A Casebook, Anglistische Forschungen, edited by Kern-Stähler Annette, Stierstorfer Klaus and Eds.. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Kern-Stähler, Annette Stierstorfer Klaus, ed. . Literary Encounters of Fundamentalism: A Casebook, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Ed., Stierstorfer Klaus, ed. . Anglistentag 2007 in Münster. Proceedings, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Peters Susanne, Stierstorfer Klaus, and Volkmann Laurenz, Eds., eds. . Teaching Contemporary Novels, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Rüdiger, Ahrens, Klaus, Stierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Symbolism. An Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, and Gomille, Monika, eds. . Cultures of Translation, Newcastle upon Tyne.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus Kern-Stähler Annette, ed. . Anglistische Forschungen, Vol.385, Literary encounters of fundamentalism. A case book , Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • . . “Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature.” in Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by Catherine Stierstorfer Klaus Pesso-Miquel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • . . “Tariq Ali and Recent Negotiations of Fundamentalism.” in Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, edited by Catherine Stierstorfer Klaus Pesso-Miquel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • . . “Introduction.Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43 (2): 121124. doi: 10.1080/17449850701430424.
    • . . “Laughing Caribbean: Humour in Caribbean Literature and Culture.” in Reading the Caribbean: Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean literature und culture, Vol.67 of Anglistik & Englischunterricht, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • . . “Review, Raymond John Howego, Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2003); and Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 (Potts Point, AU: Hodern House, 2004).Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, 7: 358361.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, and Pesso-Miquel, Catherine, eds. . Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment, New York.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed. . Anglistik & Englischunterricht, Vol.67, Reading the Caribbean. Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean literature und culture , Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • . . “Welche Kompetenzen benötigt ein Frachreferent? – Erwartungen der Wissenschaftler.” in Düsseldorfer Beiträge zum 94. Deutschen Bibliothekartag, Vol.40 of Schriften der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, edited by Siebers Irmgard. N/A: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
    • . . “General Introduction.” in Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire I: Africa, edited by Klaus Strickrodt Silke Stierstorfer. London: Pickering & Chatto.
    • . . “Introduction.” in Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire IV: India, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer. London: Pickering & Chatto.
    • . . “Michael Frayn: Democracy.” in Teaching Contemporary Drama. Teaching Contemporary Literature, edited by Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • . . “Verbindungslinien: Hongkong, seine englischsprachige Dichtung und Deutschland / Connections: Hong Kong, its Poetry in English, and German.” in Hongkong. Poems - Gedichte. Englisch - Deutsch, Vol.1 of Stauffenburgs Literarische Streifzüge, edited by Monika Gomille, Louise Ho and Klaus Stierstorfer. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • . . “Introduction: Fundamentalism and Literature.” in Fundamentalism and Literature in English: An Assessment , edited by Pesso-Miquel Catherine, Stierstorfer Klaus and Eds.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • . . “Michael Frayn: Democracy.” in Teaching Contemporary Drama, edited by Stierstorfer Klaus Peters Susanne and Eds. Volkmann Laurenz. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Gomille, Monika, and Ho, Shew Wan, eds. . A Life Half Understood: West-Östliche Gedichte aus Hong Kong, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • . . “Germany Meets Canada.Rhine Magazine, 13: 30.
    • . . “Review, Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein (eds), Cheeky Fictions. Laughter and the Postcolonial. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2005).Sprachkunst, 37 (1): 198203.
    • . . “Rev. Kwok-kan Tam, Andrew Parkin, Terry Siu-han Yip (eds), Shakespeare Global/Local. The Hong Kong Imaginary in Transcultural Production. Anglo-Amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American Studies 17 (Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Peter Lang, 2002).Symbolism. An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics, 6: 465469.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, and editor), (series, eds. . Women Writing Home 1700-1920: Female Correspondences Across the British Empire, London.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus Volkmann Laurenz, ed. . Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
    • . . “Einleitung: Anmerkungen zur Interdisziplinarität der Kulturwissenschaften.” in Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär, Narr-Studienbücher, edited by Klaus Volkmann Laurenz Stierstorfer. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.
    • . . “‘Postmortemism’: Malcolm Bradbury's Legacy in To the Hermitage.Études Anglaises, 58 (2005/2): 154165.
    • . . “Introduction: Canada from European Perspectives.” in Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture, edited by Heinz Bölling Gordon Antor and Annette Stierstorfer Klaus Kern-Stähler. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “‘Capable of Great Improvement’: Catherine Parr Traill’s Images of Canada in The Young Emigrants (1826).” in Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture, edited by Heinz Bölling Gordon Antor and Annette Stierstorfer Klaus Kern-Stähler. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Antipodean Geographies: John Rastell, Ben Jonson, and Richard Brome.” in Reading Without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age. A Tribute to Gilbert Debusscher, Vol.17 of Nouvelle poétique comparatiste, edited by Den Tandt Christophe. Lausanne: Peter Lang.
    • Peters, Susanne, Stierstorfer, Klaus, and Volkmann, Laurenz, eds. . Teaching Contemporary Literature, Teaching Contemporary Drama, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • Heinz, Antor, Gordon, Bölling, Annette, Kern-Stähler, Klaus, Stsierstorfer, and Eds., eds. . Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Vestiges of Nineteenth-Century Biology and Literature: Robert Chambers.” in Evolving Networks: Biology. Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Christa Jansohn and Anne Zwierlein. London.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed. . Anglistische Forschungen, Vol.354, Return to postmodernism. Theory - Travel Writing - Autobiography. Festschrift in honour of Ihab Hassan , Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus Volkmann Laurenz, ed. . Teaching postmodernism - postmodern teaching, Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • . . “Nursery Rhymes and the Teaching of English: An Integrative Approach.” in Canadian, Literary and Didactic Mosaic. Essays in Honour of Albert-Reiner Glaap on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday , edited by Heinze Michael, Müller-Schneck Elke and Eds.. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
    • . . “Literary Theory – Interpretation – Education: A Postmodern Reconsideration of Traditional Hierarchies.” in Teaching Postmodernism -- Postmodern Teaching, edited by Klaus Volkmann Laurenz Stierstorfer. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • . . “Teahcing Postmodernism -- Postmoderni Teaching. An Introduction.” in Teaching Postmodernism -- Postmodern Teaching, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer, Laurenz Volkmann and Eds.. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
    • , , and . “Canada in Focus.Anglistik, 15 (2): 769.
    • . . “Horace Wigan (1815/16-1885).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David.
    • . . “Daniel Terry (1789-1829).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • . . “Richard John Smith (1786-1855).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David.
    • . . “Charley Selby (c.1802-1863).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • , and . . “Leman Thomas Tertius Rede (1799-1832).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David.
    • . . “John Oxenford (1812-1877).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Cannadine David. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • . . “William Henry Oxberry (1808-1852).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Matthews H.C.G.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • . . “Thomas Knight (d. 1820).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Matthews H.C.G.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • . . “Richard Jones (1779-1851).” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Matthew H.C.G.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • . . “Review, Christa Jansohn, In the Footsteps of Queen Victoria. Wege zum Viktorianischen Zeitalter (Münster: LIT, 2002).Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 156 (2): 433435.
    • . . “Göttlicher Plot and menschliche Story: Die Zufallsproblematik im Romanwerk Henry Fieldings.Anglia, 121 (1): 431.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed. . Beyond Postmodernism. Reassessment in Literature, Theory and Culture, Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • Gomille, Monika Stierstorfer Klaus, ed. . Anglistische Forschungen, Vol.319, Xenophobic Memories: Otherness in Postcolonial Constructions of the Past , Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
    • Stierstorfer, Klaus, ed. . rowohlts enzyklopädie, Deutschlandbilder im Spiegel anderer Nationen. Literatur, Presse, Film, Funk, Fernsehen,, Orig.-Ausg. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
    • . . “Framing Postmodernism: Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, and Abdulrazak Gurnah.BELL.Beligian Journal for English Language and Literature, Special Issue: “Beyond: New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, n.s. 1: 135143.
    • . . “Canadian Recontextualizations of a German Nightmare: Henry Kreisel’s Novels.” in Refractions of Germany in Canadian Literature and Culture , edited by Stierstorfer Klaus et al. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Das Deutschlandbild in Kanada.” in Deutschlandbilder, rowohlts enzyklopädie, edited by Klaus Ed. Stierstorfer. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
    • . . “‚Deutschland’ als Produkt von ‚Bildern’?” in Deutschlandbilder, rowohlts enzyklopädie, edited by Klaus Ed. Stierstorfer. Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
    • . . “Wobbly Grounds: Postmodernism's Precarious Footholds in Novels by Malcolm Bradbury, David Parker, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift.” in Beyond Postmodernism, edited by Klaus Ed. Stierstorfer. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Introduction: Beyond Postmodernism – Contingent Referentiality?” in Beyond Postmodernism , edited by Ed. Stierstorffer Klaus. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    • . . “Reviewing Postmodernism at ESSE-6.The European English Messenger, 12 (1): 7882.
    • . . “Matching Orphaned Socks: Cross-Cultural Memories in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels.” in Xenophobic Memories, Anglistische Forschungen, edited by Gomille Monika, Stierstorfer Klaus and Eds.. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag.
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  • Supervised Theses

    Doctoral Studies

    Englische Literatur im 19. Jahrhundert auf dem Index der verbotenen Bücher (Zweitgutachten)
    Windt-Wetzel, LeonieModelling Rural and Urban Place in Post-Ceasefire and Post-Agreement Northern Irish Narrative Fiction
    Jain, JayanaNation, Home and Identity: An Inquiry into Diasporic Trajectories in Selected ‘Post- 9/11’ Pakistani Novels and Hindi Films
    Dieks, LindaThe Influence of the Gothic on Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis
    John, Stefanieost-Romantic Aesthetics and Constructions of Subjectivity and Marginality in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
    Tronicke, MarlenaSuicide in Shakespeare
    Scharff, Anne-KatrinWahnsinn und Druckerschwärze. Madness im Spiegel englischer Zeitungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
    Morgan, HollyAdoptions Across Borders, Children and Diaspora: Representations of Transnational Adoption in Diasporic Indian Women’s Writing
    Patchett, EmmaThe Right to Free Movement: Law, Literature, and the Roma Diaspora
    Dimitrova,ZornitsaExpression as Mimesis and Event
    Merk, AnnikaThe Contemporary Dramatic Monologue in Britain and Ireland
    Heuer, CarenHermanns Nation
    Writing Empire: Latin Quotations in Texts on the British Empire
    Ile, Onyebuchi JamesThe Nature of Ethnic Conflicts and their Representation in Postcolonial Nigerian Literature. A Case Study of Literature for Conflict Resolution
    Candraningrum, DewiThe Challenge of Teaching Englisch in Muhammadiyah University (1958-2005): Mainstreaming Gender through Post Colonial Muslim women Writers

    Postdoctoral Studies

    Transatlantic Scenes of Subjection: Staging Early Modern Slavery
    Oddities - Alterity, Authenticity and *Anerkennung* in Unauthentic Narration
    HOMO CONTRACTUALIS. Das Regime des Vertrags und die Romantik
    'Reading into the Stars': Metaphorized Cosmology and the Autopoetics of the Contemporary Novel
    "A Missionary Zeal": Besatzung, Entnazifizierung und Umerziehung als Aktionsfeld und im Geschichtsbewusstsein britischer Literaten