Prof. Dr. Mechthild Albert
Languages, Romance studies
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages
English literature and cultural studies
Popular representations of history
Travel literature
Depictions of war in literature, film and journalism
Heroism and the portrayal of heroes
British literature and culture since the 19th century
Postcolonial literatures
Canadian government faculty enrichment and research awards
Internal senior fellow, FRIAS (Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies), 2007 – 2008
English
Korte, B.: Techniken der Schlußgebung im Roman: Eine Untersuchung englisch- und deutschsprachiger Romane. Frankfurt am Main, 1985.
Korte, B.: Körpersprache in der Literatur: Theorie und Geschichte am Beispiel des englischsprachigen Romans. Tübingen, 1993.
Korte, B.: Der Englische Reisebericht: Von der Pilgerfahrt bis zur Postmoderne. Darmstadt, 1996.
Korte, B. et al.: Einführung in die Anglistik. Weimar/Stuttgart, 1997, 2nd revised ed. Stuttgart, 2004.
Korte, B.: Body Language in Literature. Theory/Culture series. Toronto/Buffalo/London, 1997.
Korte, B.: English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations. Basingstoke, 2000.
Korte, B.: The Short Story in Britain: A Historical Sketch and Anthology. Tübingen, 2003.
Korte, B., Sternberg, C.: Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian Film in Britain since the 1990s. Amsterdam/New York, 2004.
Korte, B. et al.: Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Mediendiskurse der Erinnerung in Großbritannien: Autobiographie – Roman – Film (1919-1999). Würzburg, 2005.
Korte, B.: Represented Reporters: Images of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fiction. Bielefeld, 2009.
German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Group (FOR) 875: History in Popular Cultures of Knowledge; spokesperson and head of project, 2007 – 2013
Thyssen Foundation – World War I in British short stories 1914-1939, 2006 – 2007
DFG – The war correspondent in British Culture, from the Crimean War to the Iraq War, 2004 – 2007
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 437: Experiences of war. War and society in the modern era – project: Construction of experiences of World War I between modernity and tradition, 2002 – 2004
Professional associations: English Studies Association of Germany, German Shakespeare Society, Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English
Elected member, DFG review board for literary studies, 2004 – 2008
Member of the scientific advisory board, DFG Funding Initiative for the Humanities, 2004 – 2007
Spokesperson of the Graduate School of Arts, Humanities and Social Scienes of the International Graduate Academy, University of Freiburg, 2008 – 2012
Vice Dean of the Philological Faculty, University of Freiburg, 2006 – 2012
Co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik (Journal of English and American Studies) and the ZAA Monographs book series, since 1999
Reviewer for international journals and research funding boards inside and outside of Germany, since 1997
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Languages, Romance studies
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology
Social and behavioural sciences, Sociology, Social policy, Demography
Social and behavioural sciences, Neurocognitive psychology