Dr. Thorsten Bothe

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Teaching Fellow

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Dr. Thorsten Bothe

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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Wiener Straße 48, 1st floor, room 1.16

01219 Dresden

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TUD Dresden University of Technology Faculty SLK
Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures Helmholtzstraße 10

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Until 31.10.24 reachable by phone at: +49 351 463 43265 (office: 1.18).

Office hours:

Thursday:

12:00 - 14:00

Except during lecture-free periods. All information and registrations can be found on OPAL in the corresponding cross-semester folder.

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Academic Career

• 2022–2024 Advisor for Appointment Matters, Department of Finance, Human Resources, and Space Management, OWL School of Medicine, Bielefeld University
• 2017–2021 Research Associate at NDVL, Chemnitz University of Technology; for the last six months, split time between Research Associate at the Dean's Office, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, and NDVL, Chemnitz University of Technology
• 2017–2018: Equal Opportunity Officer for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Chemnitz University of Technology
• 2015–2016: Research Associate at the Chair of German and General Literary Studies with a focus on forms of knowledge, RWTH Aachen University
• 2015–2016: Adjunct Lecturer in Argumentation Theory, HCU Hamburg (Q-Studies)
• 2013–2015 Postdoctoral Researcher in “Rhetoric,” Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• 2012–2013 Postdoctoral Researcher in “Rhetoric and New Media,” Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• 2011–2013 Freelance academic editor (part-time, 2012–2013)
• 2009–2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, DFG Research Training Group “Media Historiographies,” DFG Start-up Funding
• 2009 Ph.D. in General and Comparative Literature, University of Erfurt
• 2008 Doctoral completion fellowship, University of Erfurt
• 2005–2009 Doctoral studies in “Literary Studies,” University of Erfurt
• 2005–2007 doctoral student, DFG Research Training Group “Media Historiographies”
• 2004 Research Assistant, General and Comparative Literature, University of Erfurt
• 2004 M.A. in General and Comparative Literature and German Literature, University of Erfurt
• 2002 B.A. in General and Comparative Literature and Philosophy, University of Erfurt
• 1999–2003 Student Assistant, later Research Assistant, English Literature, University of Erfurt
• 1996–2004 Studied Literature and Philosophy at the Universities of Stuttgart and Erfurt

Research Interests

Mnemonics, exemplarity, dust jacket, rhetoric and deconstruction, Arno Schmidt, sexuality and literature, paratextuality, metaphorology, liberal arts education in Germany, the role of rhetoric in university education

Publications

Books

• Butis Butis (ed.): Stehende Gewässer. Medien der Stagnation. Zurich / Berlin: Diaphanes 2007.
• Thorsten Bothe / Robert Suter (eds.): Prekäre Bilder. Munich: Fink 2010 (eikones series).
• Karin Beck / Thorsten Bothe / Thomas Glaser / Claudia Heuer / Julia Schütz / Andreas Seifert (eds.): Education and Higher Education. Impulses for Study and Teaching: The Case of Leuphana College. Münster/New York: Waxmann 2016.
• Thorsten Bothe: *MemoryEx: Memory and Example in Rhetoric*. Berlin: Neofelis, 2017.

Article

• River of Oblivion, Lake of Memory. The Waters of Memoria. In: Butis Butis (ed.): Stagnant Waters. Media of Stagnation. Zurich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2007, pp. 77–88.
• Ctesibius’s Water Clock According to Derrida. In: Butis Butis (ed.): Stagnant Waters. Media of Stagnation. Zurich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2007, pp. 290–293.
• Circumfession. “... written in a kind of inner margin ...” A Marginal Note. In: Bernhard Metz / Sabine Zubarik (eds.): Notes in the Margin. Practices of Annotation in Literary Texts. Berlin: Kadmos 2008, pp. 353–372 (=Kaleidogramme 33).
• Swimming Pool Trauma, or: Why Water Metaphors Haunt Us. In: Berliner Gazette, June 24, 2009.
• Winged Images/Typefaces. On the Status of the “Imago” in Memory, Using Thomas Harris’s *Hannibal Rising* as an Example. In: Thorsten Bothe / Robert Suter (eds.): Precarious Images. Munich: Fink 2010, pp. 103–121.
• Thorsten Bothe / Robert Suter: Introduction. In: Thorsten Bothe / Robert Suter (eds.): Precarious Images. Munich: Fink 2010, pp. 11–16.
• Stephen King’s *The Girl* (Schneekluth Verlag)—A Rhetorical Reading of the Dust Jacket. In: Anthony Enns / Bernhard Metz (eds.): *Distinctions that Matter: Popular Literature and Material Culture* [=*Belphégor. Littérature Populaire et Culture Médiatique* XII/1 (2015)], http://bel-phegor.revues.org/622.
• Debating in Complementary Studies. Reflections on a Rhetorical Curriculum at Leuphana College. In: Karin Beck / Thorsten Bothe / Thomas Glaser / Claudia Heuer / Julia Schütz / Andreas Seifert (Eds.): Education and Higher Education. Ideas for Study and Teaching: The Example of Leuphana College. Münster/New York: Waxmann 2016, pp. 123–139.
• Karin Beck / Thorsten Bothe / Thomas Glaser / Claudia Heuer / Julia Schütz / Andreas Seifert: Education and Higher Education: Why? In: Karin Beck / Thorsten Bothe / Thomas Glaser / Claudia Heuer / Julia Schütz / Andreas Seifert (eds.): Education and Higher Education. Ideas for Study and Teaching: The Case of Leuphana College. Münster/New York: Waxmann 2016, pp. 9–15.
• Take Two. Happy Love of a Different Kind. In: Rafał Pokrywka (ed.): The Romance Novel in the 21st Century. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017, pp. 139–156.
• “....” – The Omission as a Pun and Anagram?! Kleist’s Anecdote from the Last War. In: Helga Lutz / Nils Plath / Dietmar Schmidt (eds.): Punctuation. Scenes of Writing. Berlin: Kadmos 2017, pp. 223–226.
• Quick Wit. In: Christoph Jamme / Kristin Drechsler (eds.): 10 Minutes of Philosophy. Paderborn: Fink 2019, pp. 22–26.
• Hans Blumenberg. Metaphorology—Non-conceptuality. In: Christoph Jamme / Kristin Drechsler (eds.): 10 Minutes of Philosophy. Paderborn: Fink 2019, pp. 121–126.
• The Rhetoric of Autassassinophilia. In: Heng Barone / Sanna Schulte / Sascha Tuchardt (eds.): Figures of the Provocative and Subversive. Body and Sexuality in Multimedia. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2019, pp. 143–167.
• “Stephen King’s *The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon*: A Rhetorical Reading of the Schneekluth Edition Dust Jackets.” In: Anthony Enns / Bernhard Metz (eds.): *Consumerism and Prestige: The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age*. London & New York: Anthem Press 2022, pp. 129–142.