Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte

• 1985
  PhD from the University of Cologne, Germany
  
  

• 1985 – 1986
  German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) lecturer, University of Reading, UK
  
  

• 1986 – 1992
  Lecturer/assistant professor, English Department, University of Cologne
  
  

• 1992
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) at the University of Cologne
  
  

• 1992 – 1993
  Senior lecturer, English Department, University of Cologne
  
  

• 1993 – 1997
  Professor of English, Department of English/American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
  
  

• 1997 – 2002
  Professor of English, English Department, University of Tübingen, Germany
  
  

• Since 2002
  Professor of English, English Department, University of Freiburg, Germany
  
  

• 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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