Prof. Dr. Mechthild Albert
Languages, Romance studies
Prof. Dr. Andrea Albrecht
Nominated by
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- AcademiaNet member since 17.05.2010
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Universität Stuttgart
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Social sciences, journalism and information
Field
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages
Area of specialisation
Literary studies, recent German literature, cultural studies
Distinctions and Awards
Advisory board of Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, since 2009
Admitted into the Emmy Noether programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2007
Dilthey fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation (declined), 2007
Editorial board of Transit, UC Berkeley, USA, since 2005
Research award from the foundation board, University of Göttingen, for outstanding early-career publications, 2004
Doctoral fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation, 2000 – 2002
Undergraduate scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, 1992 – 1997
Languages
English, French, German
Doctorate
- 2003: Kosmopolitismus. Weltbürgerdiskurse in Literatur, Philosophie und Publizistik um 1800 ("Cosmopolitanism. Citizen-of-the-world discourses in literature, philosophy and the press around the year 1800")
PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation
- 2011: Mathematik und Literatur ("Mathematics and Literature")
Short CV/Education and training
- Studied mathematics, German philology and philosophy at the Universities of Bremen, Hamburg and Göttingen, Germany
- 2002 – 2004Research assistant on the project "Fin de siècle – Literature, art and science around the year 1900 in a boundary-crossing perspective" at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2003PhD from the Department of German Philology, University of Göttingen
- 2004 – 2007Visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Since 2007Research associate and head of a junior research group (within the Emmy Noether programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG)) at the Department of German II, University of Freiburg, Germany, working on the relationship between exact science (particularly mathematics), literature and cultural theory, inter alia
- Since 2008Employed at the School of Language and Literature, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
- 2008 – 2011Employed at the FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany) School for Language and Literature
- Since 2012Professor of modern German literature, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Selected publications
Albrecht, A.: Kosmopolitismus. Weltbürgerdiskurse in Literatur, Philosophie und Publizistik um 1800, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005.
Albrecht, A.: Bildung und Ehe "genialer Weiber". Jean Pauls Diesjährige Nachlesung an die Dichtinnen als Erwiderung auf Esther Gad und Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In: Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 80(2), 2006. pp. 377-406.
Albrecht, A.: Mathematische und ästhetische Moderne. Zu Robert Musils Essay "Der mathematische Mensch". In: Scientia Poetica 12, 2008. pp. 218-250.
Albrecht, A.: Mathematisches Wissen und historisches Erzählen: Michael Köhlmeiers Roman "Abendland". In: Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch 8, 2009. pp. 192-217.
Selected projects
Mathematics beyond cultural studies. On the literary and cultural construction of the mathematical between 1880 and 1950. Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) project, funded by the Emmy Noether programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
"Constellations". On the cultural-studies career of an astrological/astronomical concept in H. Rickert, M. Weber, K. Mannheim, T. W. Adorno inter alia. (Book project)
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