Assoc. Prof. Johanna Akujärvi
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology
Prof. Dr. Julika Griem
Nominated by
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- AcademiaNet member since 22.04.2015
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Arts and humanities
Field
Languages
Area of specialisation
English and anglophone literatures and cultures of the 19th, 20th, 21st centuries
Research interests
Literary theory; literature and visual culture; animal studies; literature and space/urbanity; genre and crime fiction; seriality; figurations of the whole; theories and methods of research on contemporary literature; practices of scholarly writing
Interested in
- Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing
Languages
English, French, German
Doctorate
- 1995: Orality and Literacy in the Works of Joseph Conrad
PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation
- 2005: Monkey Business. Simian Figures of Anthropological and aesthetic reflexion, 1900-2000
Short CV/Education and training
- English and German at the universities of Freiburg and Amherst, MA
- PhD on Joseph Conrad at Freiburg
- Assistant professorship at the University of Stuttgart
- First appointment to the Technical University of Darmstadt
- Since 2012Professor of English literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt
Selected publications
Selected projects
Monograph on John Burnside
Graduate program on contemporary literature research
Figurations of the Whole
Machine and game as concept metaphors
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
Member of the strategy committee of the German Council of Science and the Humanities ("Wissenschaftsrat")
Vice chairperson of the German Association of University Teachers of English ("Anglistenverband")
Member of the prize committee "Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Preis" for Junior Researchers of the German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft")
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