Erika Greber#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2667 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Erika Greber passed away July 31, 2011.
Positions Held
- 2007 – 2011 Comparative Literature Chair, Department of German Philology & Comparative Literature, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- 1995 – 2007 C3 professor of general and comparative literature in the Department of Comparative Literature, LMU Munich, Germany
- 1997 – 1998 Direct exchange as a visiting professor to the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA (three terms, full teaching load; undergraduate and graduate courses)
- 1994 Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) at the University of Konstanz in the fields of general & comparative literature and Slavic languages and literatures
- 1989 – 1995 Research assistant of Prof. Renate Lachmann, Department of Slavic Literatures and General Literary Studies, University of Konstanz
- 1987 PhD from the University of Konstanz (summa cum laude) in the field of Slavic studies
- 1985 – 1989 Research assistant at the University of Konstanz for the research projects Slavische Rhetorik (Slavic Rhetoric) and Fiktionalität and Intertextualität (Fictionality and Intertextuality)
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative literature
- Slavic studies
- General literary theory, comparative media studies, mediality of literature, intermediality
- Interculturality: cultural contact, cultural transfer, translation, migration, bilingualism, imagology, intercultural communication
- Gender studies and feminist literary theory
- Narratology
- Lyrical traditions and lyrical analysis
- Genre theory and history: the sonnet, sestina, visual poetry, epistolary novel
- Literary combinatorics, literary games (anagrams, palindromes, ambigrams)
- Text beginnings
Honours and Awards
- Co-editor of the professional journal Poetica (category A, peer-reviewed, ERIH / European Reference in the Humanities) for the fields of comparative studies and Slavic studies
- Co-editor of the Munich Comparative Literature Studies book series, published by Wallstein, Göttingen, Germany
- Co-editor of the book series Literatura. Scholarly contributions to modernity and its history, published by Ergon, Würzburg, Germany
- German Research Foundation (DFG) senate and grants committee for Collaborative Research Centres
- Academia Europaea, Section A4 "Literary & Theatrical Studies"
- Advisory board of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), "Language & Literature"
- Jury for the non-fiction book/essay/translation prize of the C.H. Beck publishing house
- Editorial board of the professional journal Primerjalna književnost / Comparative Literature, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Editorial board of the professional journal Welt der Slaven (Slavic World), Munich, Germany
- Editorial board of the book series Palaestra, published by V&R unipress, Göttingen
- Editorial board of the book series Linguae & Litterae, published by De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany
