Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien

Fellow

Active for the Research Team in Trier:

01/04/2021 - 30/09/2021

Country:

Germany

Email:

claudia.benthien@uni-hamburg.de

Phone:

+49 651 201 3246

Room:

DM 7

Project Affiliation:

F4 – Boundaries between society / societies

Research Focus:

Recent Research Topics

Contemporary poetry in its medial context
Literature and visual culture
Vanitas in contemporary arts

You may find further information at this link: https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/personen/benthien.html

Current Research Projects:

Public Poetry. Lyrik im urbanen Raum (with Norbert Gestring)

An Abstract can be accessed via this link.

Publications:

Recent publications:

„‘Wilde Vielfalt‘. Monika Rinck und das Barock“. Monika Rinck und die Gegenwartlyrik. Ed. by Nicolas von Passavant and Nathan Taylor. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2021 [in print].

Vanitas und Gesellschaft. (together with Antje Schmidt and Christian Wobbeler). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021 [in print].

„Vanitas-Stillleben in der Videokunst. Aktuelle Perspektiven eines barocken Motivs und ihre Gestaltung von Zeitlichkeit“ (together with Julia Catherine Berger). Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 66.1 (2021) [in print].

„Die Farbe Weiß in der Lyrik Jan Wagners“. Lyrik und Existenz in der Gegenwart / Contemporary Poetry and Existence. Ed. by Henrieke Stahl. Berlin et al.: Peter Lang, 2021 [in print].

„Public Poetry: Encountering the Lyric in Urban Space”. Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik / International Journal for Comparative Cultural Studies 1 (2021) 345-367. [open access: https://izfk.uni-trier.de/index.php/izfk]

„La poésie a l’ère numérique / Poetry in the Digital Age”. Théories du lyrique. Une anthologie en linge / Theories of Lyric. An Online Reader. Ed. by Antonio Rodrigues i.a. [open access: http://lyricalvalley.org/theories-du-lyrique/ and http://lyricology.org/].

„Spoken-Word-Literatur und Poetry Slam“ (together with Catrin Prange). Handbuch Literatur & Auditive Kultur. Ed. by Uwe Wirth and Natalie Binczek. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 517-533.

The Literariness of Media Art (together with Jordis Lau and Maraike M. Marxsen). London and New York: Routledge, 2019. [open access: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315107981]

A full publication list is found here

Career:

Present Position

Professor for German Literature at Universität Hamburg

Principal Investigator ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age”

Academic Career

Since 2005: Full professor (W3) for German Literature at Universität Hamburg

2000-2005 Research Associate (C1) at the Department of German Literature, Humboldt Universität, Berlin

1998-2000: Postdoctoral Fellow the Resaerch Training Group Körperinszenierungen [Body Performances], Institute of Theater Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin,

1995-1998: PhD studies at Humboldt Universität, Berlin

1991-1994 Master Program of German, American and British Studies as well as Art History at Universität Hamburg and Washington University, St. Louis

Research Stipends and Fellowships

Deutsches Haus/New York University, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (Vienna), Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris), Warburg Institute (London), Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel)

Visiting Professorships:

Rutgers University (New Brunswick), University of Washington (Seattle), University of California (Berkeley), Emory University (Atlanta)

Prices and Awards

2020: ERC Advanced Grant

2001: Nord LB/Warburg-Wolfenbüttel Research Fellowship1999: Joachim Tiburtius-Preis, Berlin Senate (prize for the best dissertation)

1999: Joachim Tiburtius-Preis, Berlin Senate (prize
for the best dissertation)