Elisabeth Strowick

Professor of German
Subdivision Director, German

German and Romance Languages and Literatures
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Telephone: (410) 516-7509
Email: strowick@jhu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

ELISABETH STROWICK received her Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg in 1998 and her venia legendi (habilitation) in German Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Basel in 2005. She has taught modern German literature and held several academic positions at universities throughout the United States (Yale, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt), Germany (Hamburg, Greifswald, Trier, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Berlin) and Switzerland (Basel, Zurich). 2004-2006 she held a Feodor Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Professor Strowick's areas of expertise include German and Austrian literature and culture from the 19th century to the present, Literary Theory, Poetics of Knowledge, Psychoanalysis, Rhetoric, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is the author of Passagen der Wiederholung: Kierkegaard – Lacan – Freud (Metzler 1999) and Sprechende Körper – Poetik der Ansteckung: Performativa in Literatur und Rhetorik (Fink 2009). In addition, Professor Strowick has worked extensively on the intersection of literature, the history of science, and media technology. She is co-editor of several books and the author of numerous articles in this field. Currently she is working on a book on The Perception of Reality in 19^th Century German Literature.

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Elisabeth Strowick

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