PD Dr. Anja Gerigk

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      1. Academic Career
      2. core research areas
      3. Publications
        1. Monographs
        2. Anthologies & Editions
        3. Essays
        4. Article
        5. Reviews & Short Articles
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PD Dr. Anja Gerigk

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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Academic Career

  • Oct. 2019–Sept. 2020: Research position at Swansea University (UK) as part of a text-editing project funded by the Modern Humanities Research Association
  • 03/2015–02/2019: Senior Lecturer (on a temporary basis) at the Institute of German Philology, LMU Munich
  • Winter Semester 2013/14 – Summer Semester 2014: Deputy Head of W2 Chair for New German Literature and Media, LMU Munich
  • Oct. 2013: Habilitation at LMU Munich with the dissertation “Architecture Reads Literature: Intermedial Diachronies from the 19th to the 20th Century”; granted the venia legendi in Modern German Literature
  • 2009–2014: Accepted into the LMU Mentoring Program, Faculty 13
  • April 2009–February 2019: Research Assistant to Professor Annette Keck, LMU Munich
  • April 2007–March 2009: Teaching fellow in Modern German Literature, LMU Munich
  • 07/2006– HWP Postdoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Early-Career Researchers, approved duration: 12 months
  • 10/2005–03/2007: Entry-level and substitute positions at the chair of Professor Oliver Jahraus, LMU Munich
  • June 2005: Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) from Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg with the dissertation “The Relationship Between Ethical and Aesthetic Discourse on Literature: A Historical Discourse Analysis”
  • 10/1996–06/2002: Studied German Language and Literature (Diplom degree) with a focus on literary education and a minor in English at the University of Bamberg; 1998–1999: University of St. Andrews

core research areas

  • Narrative Literature of the 18th–21st Centuries (narrative modernity, cultural-theoretical approaches)
  • Architecture & Space in Intermedia
  • Comic Communication: Theory and Media Analysis
  • Methodology (discourse analysis, history of knowledge, New Historicism, etc.)

Publications

69 Entries

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2012

2011

2010

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Monographs

  • Cultural Novels: Narrative Cultural Studies from Goethe to Musil. Vienna, et al.: Böhlau 2019.
  • Architecture Reads Literature. Intermedial Diachronies from the 19th to the 20th Century. Würzburg: Ergon 2014 (= Literature − Culture − Theory 20). = Habilitation thesis
  • Literary High Comedy in the Modern Era. Theory and Interpretations. Tübingen: Francke 2008.
  • The Relationship Between Ethical and Aesthetic Discourse on Literature. A Historical Discourse Analysis. Heidelberg: Winter 2006 (= Problems of Poetry 38). = Dissertation

Anthologies & Editions

  • Günter Grass: A Vast Field. Commentary Volume. Edited by Susanna Brogi and Anja Gerigk. Berlin, et al.: de Gruyter 2024.
  • Co-edited with Juliane Blank: Moments of Excitement. Functions of the Erotic in Literature. Berlin: Chr. A. Bachmann 2017.
  • Paradoxical Happiness. Modern Literature and Media Culture—A Theoretical Reading. Bielefeld: transcript 2010 (= Culture and Media Theory).

Essays

  • “Teufelsbrück.” In: Julia Bertschik/Tanja van Hoorn (eds.): Brigitte Kronauer Handbook. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2024 (Nov). [+ Articles “Romanticism,” “Intertextuality,” “Jean Paul,” “Adalbert Stifter”]

  • Between Classic and Cult Book. On the Canonization of Highly Comical Works. In: David Röhe and Sina Röpke (eds.): Schmidt, Shakespeare, and the New Frankfurt School—Haffmans Verlag in Zurich as a Major Publishing Project. Festschrift for Stephan Opitz. Berlin: Metzler 2024.

  • From Ritualization to Leveling. The Continuum of Repetition as a Praxeological Cultural Critique in Thomas Mann’s *The Magic Mountain*. In: Jörg Türschmann/Noelle Miller/Santiago Contardo Martinez (eds.): The Will to Repetition. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2024 (= Serienräume – global, local, glocal).

  • Genre Economies and the Gesture of Writing. Scheerbart’s Visionary Prose on Glass Architecture. In: Journal of Cultural Studies (2024). Special Issue: Small Forms of Intervention. Presence of Mind and Reflectiveness, ed. by Bernhard Stricker.

  • Institutionalized Historical Reference. Sites of Architecture and Text in the 20th Century. In: Philipp Hubmann/Thorben Päthe (eds.): Creating Institutions. The Literary Discourse on Institutions since the Enlightenment. Munich: Fink 2023, pp. 285–306.

  • Culinary and Humorous Diagnoses of the Times. From Max Goldt’s Cultural Diaries. In: Friedrich Block/Nils Jablonski (eds.): The Comedy of Desires. Results of the Kassel Comedy Colloquium. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2023 (= Cultures of the Comic 10), pp. 137–153.

  • All Degrees of Parody. Investigations into a Writing Principle. In: Text + Kritik. Journal of Literature (2023), No. 240: Gerhard Henschel. Edited by Laura Schütz, pp. 42–51.

  • A Counterpoint to the Media-Cultural Zeitgeist. Fateful Immortality in *KL* and *Tyll*. In: Juliane Blank/Daniel Kazmaier (eds.): Timeless Interpretations of Time. Fatefulness and Chance in Contemporary German-Language Literature. Baden-Baden: Ergon 2022 (= Literatura 52), pp. 175–192.

  • Fonty/Fontane: Neo-Victorian Simulation in *Too Far Afield* by Günter Grass. In: *Neo-Victorian Studies* 14:1 (2021/2022), pp. 28–50.

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  • Old and New “from England.” Brigitte Kronauer’s Neo-Victorian European Fiction *Longing for Music and Mountains*. In: *Angermion*. Yearbook for British-German Cultural Relations 14 (2021), pp. 97–121.

  • Hyperromanticism. On the “Lucinde Complex” in Juli Zeh’s *Corpus Delicti* and Dietmar Dath’s *Die Abschaffung der Arten*. In: *Athenäum*. Yearbook of the Friedrich Schlegel Society 30 (2020), pp. 141–166.

  • On the Formation of the Concept of Culture. Metaphors and/or Modern Epic Poetry. In: KulturPoetik. Journal for Cultural Poetics (2020), No. 2, pp. 194–212.
  • Deconstruction of Identificatory Reading. Perrudja’s Excitement through Mediality and Alterity. In: Irina Hron/Jadwiga Kita-Huber/Sanna Schulte (eds.): Reading Scenes. History – Poetics – Mediality. Heidelberg: Winter 2020, pp. 275–292.
  • From the Grotesque to Metacomedy. Observing Boundaries in the Film *The Interview*. In: Friedrich Block/Uwe Wirth (eds.): The Boundaries of the Comic. Proceedings of the Kassel Colloquium on Comedy. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2020 (= Cultures of the Comic 8), pp. 73–85.
  • “Ha! – Ha! – Hallelujah!” The Puzzle of Comic Desacralization and Resacralization in Andreas Hartknopf. In: Friedrich Block/Uwe Wirth (eds.): The Boundaries of the Comic. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2020 (= Cultures of the Comic 8), pp. 325–336.
  • Stages of Epic Mirth: Jean Paul – Raabe – Thomas Mann. In: Sylvie Le Moël/Elisabeth Rothmund (eds.): Theoretical and Fictional Concepts of Happiness in the German-Speaking World. Berlin: Frank & Timme 2019, pp. 93–109.
  • “Architecture Without Substance.” Spaces in *The Royal Game*. In: Margit Dirscherl/Laura Schütz (eds.): The Chess Story. A New Reading of Zweig’s Last Work. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2019 (= Stefan Zweig Center Series), pp. 47–59.
  • The Architect at the Window, or Architectural Elements in the Transition to the Media Dispositif. Händler’s *Sturm* Meets Kracauer’s *Ginster*. In: Lena Abraham et al. (eds.): Staircase—Window—Corridor. Architectural Dispositives of Perception in Literature and the Arts. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2019, pp. 57–73.
  • Symposia of Modernity: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s *The Serapion Brothers* and Related Discussions of Art from Early Romanticism to the Media Age. In: E.T.A. Hoffmann Yearbook 26 (2018), pp. 17–30.
  • The Intermedial Ensemble of *The Fools’ Castle*: Stift’s Solitaire in Comparative Methodology. In: *arcadia*. International Journal of Literary Culture 53 (2018), No. 1, pp. 1–17.
  • Lessons in Cheerful Aesthetics. A Poetological Reception of Jean-Paul for the Present. In: Germanica 63 (2018): Cheerfulness – L’allégresse au cœur de l’écriture poétique et philosophique, pp. 93–109.
  • Hoppe in Happiness. Narrative as Wish Fulfillment Between Fairy Tale and picaresque Novel. In: Literature in the Classroom 19 (2018), No. 1: Happiness, pp. 5–17.
  • Erotic Cultural Reflection. On Aesthetic and Conspiratorial Connections to the Classical Modern Novel. In: Juliane Blank/Anja Gerigk (eds.): Moments of Excitement. Functions of the Erotic in Literature. Berlin: Chr. A. Bachmann 2017, pp. 155–175 [including, co-authored with Juliane Blank: “Comparative Eros: An Introduction,” pp. 9–19].
  • Negotiations with Hoffmann’s Sandman. An Analysis of the Representation of the Interior in the 19th Century as a New Historical Practice. In: Oliver Jahraus (ed.): Approaches to Literary Theory. 17 Model Analyses of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman. Stuttgart: Reclam 2016, pp. 138–148 (= Reclam’s Study Book/German Studies).
  • Gender Difference in the Unity of Utopia and Critique. Literary Figurations of Architecture’s Technological-Visionary Competence. In: Katrin Schneider-Özbek/Marie-Hélène Adam (eds.): Technology and Gender. Technological Futures as Gender-Coded Orders in Literature and Film. Karlsruhe: KIT Verlag 2016, pp. 131–149.
  • The Parodied Gottsched. On the Genre of Comic Transcription and Its Function around 1800. In: Friedrich Block (ed.): Art & Comedy. Results of the Kassel Colloquium on Comedy. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2016 (= Cultures of the Comic 6), pp. 155–169.
  • “The Ideal Lover”—Utopian Narrative Forms Reflected in New Dystopias (Zeh, Dath, Kracht). In: Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi. Studies in German Language and Literature 34 (2015), No. 2, pp. 5–19.
  • The Joy of Contingency—Ethos vs. Narrative Mechanics. In: Christoph Pflaumbaum et al. (eds.): Aesthetics of Chance. Orders of the Unpredictable in Literature and Theory. Heidelberg: Winter 2015 (= Euphorion Supplement), pp. 257–270.
  • Eccentrically Happy. Author and Subject Positions in Post-Idyllic, Post-Utopian Fictions (Doderer—Handke—Bernhard). In: German Studies in Ireland 10 (2015). Special Issue: Constructions of Happiness. Edited by Sabine Strumper-Krobb and Gillian Pye, pp. 63–76.
  • Genius and Female Authorship in the Evolution of the Comedy. Juliana Hayn’s *Der Dichterling* (1781) and Johanna von Weißenthurn’s *Das Manuscript* (1826). In: Linda Dietrick/Birte Giesler (eds.): Weibliche Kreativität um 1800. Women’s Creativity around 1800. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2015, pp. 125–142.
  • Comic Communication in the Context of Media and High Culture. Why “Krawehl!” Works Just as Well as “Hurz!” In: Hajo Diekmannshenke et al. (eds.): The Comic in Culture. Marburg: Tectum 2015 (= Koblenz Studies in German Studies 1), pp. 433–447.
  • Humorous Narrative in the 21st Century. Contemporary Tradition in Kehlmann’s *Vermessung der Welt * and Kracht’s *Imperium*. In: *Wirkendes Wort* 64 (2014), No. 3, pp. 427–439.
  • Spatial Turns in the Novel. Hermann Burger’s *Schilten* as an Intermedial Critique of the Spatial Turn. In: Evi Zemanek/Robert Krause (eds.): Text Architectures. The Architecture of Literature. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2014 (= linguae & litterae 38), pp. 237–251.
  • Culture in the Text. How Can We Interpret Theoretically? In: Claudia Liebrand/Rainer Kaus (eds.): Interpreting According to the “Turns.” Revisions in Literary Theory. Bielefeld: transcript 2014, pp. 53–71.
  • Foundational Scenes of the Culture of Memory. Goethe’s *Architecture* and the Death of the Master Builder in Arnim’s *Kronenwächter*. In: *Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift* 64 (2014), No. 2, pp. 175–187.
  • Language as a Place of Happiness. Contemplation and Event in Literature. In: Joachim Klose (ed.): Layers of Home. An Anthropological Foundation for a Relationship with the World. Wiesbaden: VS Springer Verlag 2014, pp. 509–520.
  • Wild Comparisons: A Hybridizing Calculus. In: Mario Grizelj/Daniela Kirschstein (eds.): Risky Contacts. (How) Can Postcolonial Theories and Systems Theory Engage with One Another? Berlin: Kadmos 2014, pp. 148–160.
  • A Sense of Possibility for Unreason. Literary Utopias in the Enlightenment and Classical Modernism (Schnabel – Heinse – Scheerbart – Musil). In: Gabriela Antunes (ed.) et al.: Rationality and Forms of the Irrational in the German-Speaking World. From the Middle Ages to the Present. Frankfurt/M. et al.: Lang 2013 (= Convergences 77), pp. 41–56.
  • Comic Modernity—Beyond Institutions. In: Friedrich Block and Rolf Lohse (eds.): The Transformation and Institution of the Comic. Results of the Kassel Colloquium on the Comic. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2013 (= Cultures of the Comic 5), pp. 359–377.
  • Memory Trouble After Post-histoire: Terézia Mora’s *Alle Tage*. In: Margret-Ann Hutton, Michael Gratzke, and Claire Whitehead (eds.): Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures. New York, et al.: Lang 2013, pp. 181–196.
  • The Threshold of Transgression. The Transgressive Novel of Modernity. In: Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of Germanists, Warsaw 2010. Vol. 8. Edited by Hans-Gert Roloff, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, and Claudia Liebrand. Frankfurt am Main, et al.: Lang 2013, pp. 281–285.
  • On the Construction Sites of Context. Theoretical Reflections on Intermediality Between Spatial and Textual References. In: Kritische Ausgabe. Journal of German Studies and Literature No. 24 (2013): Architecture, pp. 7–9.
  • At the Dawn of Utopian Narrative. On the Modernity of *Lucinde*. In: *Euphorion*. Journal of Literary History 106 (2012), No. 4, pp. 481–495.
  • How the Philosophy of History Became Grotesque. Permutations of the Historical Subject as an Intertext Between Gerhard Fritsch’s *Fasching* and Günter Grass’s *The Tin Drum*. In: *Treibhaus*. Yearbook for the Literature of the 1950s 8 (2012), pp. 229–246.
  • Dis-placing Laughter in 30 Rock. In: Gender Forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 35 (2011). Gender and Humor II. Edited by Annette Keck and Ralph J. Poole, pp. 69–80.
  • The Trial by Fire of Nynianne. The Power of Love and the Joy of Knowledge in Dorothea Schlegel’s Adaptation of *Merlin*. In: Seminar 47 (2011), No. 2. Reading Female Happiness in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Literature, pp. 189–202.
  • Advanced Historiography. Albert Drach’s *Das große Protokoll gegen Zwetschkenbaum*, Johannes Bobrowski’s *Levins Mühle*, and the Historical Novel after 1945. In: *Weimarer Beiträge* 56 (2010), No. 4, pp. 501–518.
  • Uncool Bastards. Hip-Hop Between Serious Origins and Comical Hybridity. In: Andrea Bartl/Stephanie Catani (eds.): Bastard—Phenomena of Exclusion, Processes of Boundary Dissolution. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2010, pp. 267–281.
  • The Happy Moment in the Poem. Paradoxes of Modern Poetry, from Mayröcker to Hölderlin. In: Anja Gerigk (ed.): Paradoxical Happiness. Modern Literature and Media Culture—A Theoretical Reading. Bielefeld: transcript 2010, pp. 203–224.
  • The Legibility of Happiness. Fundamental Theoretical Figures. In: Anja Gerigk (ed.): Paradoxical Happiness. Modern Literature and Media Culture—A Theoretical Reading. Bielefeld: transcript 2010, pp. 7–31.
  • Negotiation and Reflection. The (Re)emergence of Taboos Between Literature and Culture: The Case of Elfriede Jelinek’s *Die Kinder der Toten*. In: Claude Conter (ed.): Justiciability and Legality. Processes of Legalization in Literature and Film in the Modern Era. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2010 (= Amsterdam Contributions to Modern German Studies 73), pp. 205–216.
  • The Dynamics of Sign-Values. Koeppen’s *Doves in the Grass * as a Semiology of the Postwar City. In: Marcel Schellong/Simone Hirmer (eds.): *Reading Munich*. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008, pp. 139–152.
  • Analysis of Knowledge, Reflection on Thought. Literature and Aesthetics in Modern Formation. In: Julia Schöll (ed.): Literature and Aesthetics. Texts by and for Heinz Gockel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008, pp. 75–86.
  • Erotic Structures—Epistemological Modernity. On the Place of Doderer’s *Strudlhofstiege* in the History of the Genre. In: *Modern Austrian Literature* 41 (2008), No. 1, pp. 23–41.
  • Postmodern Narrative: A Matter of Life and Death. The Aporia of Ambiguity in Brigitte Kronauer’s Novel *Teufelsbrück*. In: *Sprachkunst* 38 (2007), Vol. 1, pp. 67–88.

Article

  • The Eiffel Tower/La Tour Eiffel. In: Angela Oster (ed.): Roland Barthes. Life—Work—Impact. Stuttgart: Metzler 2024. [8 pp.]

  • Gender. In: Hans Richard Brittnacher, Markus May (eds.): Joseph Roth. Life—Work—Impact. Stuttgart: Metzler 2024. [6 pp.]

  • Satirical/Parodic Novels in the 18th/19th Centuries. In: Uwe Wirth (ed.): Comedy. An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2017, pp. 263–273.
  • The Satirical/Parodic Novel in the 20th Century. In: Uwe Wirth (ed.): Comedy: An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2017, pp. 273–284.
  • Glossary “Joy.” In: Martin von Koppenfels and Cornelia Zumbusch (eds.): Handbook of Literature & Emotions. Berlin: de Gruyter 2016 (= Handbooks on Cultural Studies Philology 4), p. 546. + Glossary entry “Cheerfulness.” In: Ibid., pp. 551ff.
  • Publisher. In: Thomas Anz (ed.): Handbook of Literary Studies. Vol. 3. Objects—Concepts—Institutions. Stuttgart: Metzler 2007, pp. 227–235.
  • Cultural Classics: Stephen Greenblatt (b. 1943), *Shakespearean Negotiations* (1988). In: *KulturPoetik* 6 (2006), No. 2, pp. 273–280.

Reviews & Short Articles

  • [Review] Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Roland Innerhofer, Detlev Schöttker (eds.): Planning – Living – Writing. Architectural Texts of Viennese Modernism. Vienna: Picus Verlag 2021. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik/New Series XXXIII (2023), No. 2, pp. 450–451.

  • [Review] Niklas Bender: The Laughing Art. The Contribution of the Comic to Classical Modernism. Freiburg: Rombach 2017. In: Musil-Forum. Studies in the Literature of Classical Modernism 36 2019/2020 (pp. 389–393).
  • [Review] Tanja van Hoorn (ed.): Brigitte Kronauer. Narratives of Trivialities and Natural Things. Berlin, et al.: de Gruyter 2018. In: Contemporary Literature. A German Studies Yearbook 19 (2020), pp. 425–427.
  • Prologue “What Is Architecture?” In: Eva Maria Herrmann/Natascha von Herz (eds.): Setting Out—Participating—Thinking Ahead. hammeskrause architekten. Basel, et al.: Birkhäuser 2020, II–XIII.
  • The Reconstructed Space of Modernism. [Review of Roland Innerhofer: Architecture from Language. Correspondences between Literature and Architecture 1890–1930. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2018]. Published September 23, 2019, on IASLonline.
  • When Demigods No Longer Build. Post-’45 Literature in the Discourse of Demiurgic Humanism [Review of Sarah Pogoda: Demiurges in Crisis. Architectural Figures in Post-1945 German-Language Literature. Berlin: Ripperger & Kremers 2013]. Published August 1, 2014, on IASLonline.
  • [Obituary] Loriot—A Genre, A Philosophy. Published August 24, 2011, in Media Observations.
  • The Other Hyena. Crisis and Resistance in Comedic Writing in the 20th Century [Review of Anne D. Peiter: Comedy and Violence. On the Literary Processing of the Two World Wars and the Shoah. (Literature – Culture – Gender / Major Series 45) Cologne: Böhlau 2007]. Published November 10, 2009, on IASLonline.
  • The Modernity of the Novel – Paths of Construction [Review of Matthias Luserke-Jaqui (ed.): German-Language Novels of Classical Modernism. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2008]. Published November 17, 2008, on IASLonline.
  • Any News on Context? [Review of Marion Gymnich (ed.) et al.: Cultural Knowledge and Intertextuality. Theoretical Concepts and Case Studies on the Contextualization of Literature. Trier: WVT 2006]. Published May 19, 2007, on IASLonline.
  • Just Follow the Turns—Turns in Cultural Studies [Review of Doris Bachmann-Medick: Cultural Turns. New Orientations in Cultural Studies. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 2006]. In: KulturPoetik 7 (2007), No. 2, pp. 271–273.

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