Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

Current affiliations

  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Recent German Literature, especially Modernity and Contemporary Literature
  • Theory of Literature/General Study of Literature
  • Rhetoric
  • Study of Literature as Cultural Studies
  • Literature - Religion - Politics
  • Autobiography/Autofiction
  • Law and Literature

Academic Education

1994
Habilitation, University Konstanz
1992 - 1994
DFG-Habilitation Scholarship
1987
Doctorate, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (Advisor: 
Prof. Dr. Richard Brinkmann) (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
1983 - 1987Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1983
First State Examination Secondary Level II/I
1980 - 1983
Germanics and History, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
1979 - 1980
English Studies, Germanics and History, University College London
1976 - 1979Germanics and History, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Work Experience

since 2018Principal Investigator im Exzellenzcluster "Religion und Politik. Dynamiken von Tradition und Innovation"
since 2011 Koordinatorin der Säule ‚Medialität‘ im "Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und der Moderne"
since 04/1998
Professor (C4 / W3), WWU Münster (Modern German Literature, with particular focus on Modernity and Contemporary Literature / Literature Studies as Cultural Studies)
10/2024Mercator-Fellow am GRK 2806 „Literatur und Öffentlichkeit“ an der Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen
10/2023 - 03/2024Fellow at the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies "Imaginaria of Force", University of Hamburg
2019 - 2023Head of Subproject in CRC 1385 "Law and Literature", University of Münster
2015 - 2019Teilprojektleiterin im SFB 1150 "Kulturen des Entscheidens" an der WWU Münster
04/2019 - 05/2019Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor an der University of Washington in Seattle
2008 - 2018Principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", WWU Münster
03/2015Vortragsreise in Japan auf Einladung der Japanischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik (JGG), mitgefördert durch den DAAD (Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kobe, Nagoya); Mitwirkung am 57. Kulturseminar der JGG in Tateshina
01/2011 - 04/2011
Max Kade Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence
05/2010Acceptance to the AcademiaNet Excellent Female Scientists
09/2008 - 10/2008Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle
09/2007
Visiting Professor at the National Mirzo-Ulugbek-University Taschkent (Uzbekistan)
03/2007Paul Celan Fellow, Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
03/2004 - 05/2004Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
2002Ablehnung eines Rufs (C4) an die Universität Tübingen
10/1995 - 03/1998
Professor (C3), Ruhr-University Bochum (New German Studies, particularly Literary Theory and Rhetoric)
1988 - 1994
Editorial Assistant for the Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literatur­wissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (DVjs)
04/1988 - 03/19941988 - 1994
Research Assistant, University of Konstanz (Working Group Prof. Dr. G. v. Graevenitz)

Functions and Memberships

since 03/2020Mitglied im DFG-Fachkollegium 105 "Literaturwissenschaft"
since 10/2016Fellow am internationalen Kolleg "Morphomata" der Universität Köln
since 2014Election as Ordinary Member of the "North-Rhine Westfalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts"
since 2013Member of the Editorial Board of the Handbook Series "Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft" (de Gruyter)
since 2010Mitglied im Internationalen Ausschuss der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik
since 2010Acceptance to the "AcademiaNet Excellent Female Scientists"
since 1998Member of the Literaturkommission für Westfalen (LWL regional authority Westphalia-Lippe)
since 1994Mitglied der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG)
2014 - 2020Regular Member of the Committee for the Doctoral Student Funding of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
10/2016 - 09/2020Vorsitzende des Forschungsbeirats des FB 09 Philologie der WWU Münster
2010 - 2019Mitglied im Zentralen Auswahlausschuss der Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Mitglied im zentralen Auswahlausschuss der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2011 - 2018Speaker of Coordinated Project Group ‘Secularisation and Sacralisation of Media’ in the Cluster of Excellence in "Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures"
2009 - 2018Principal Investigator in the Exzellenzcluster "Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Times"
2012 - 2016Member of the International Board of the Journal GegenwartsLiteratur
2010 - 2016Spokeswoman of the PhD Training Group Literary Theory as Theory of the Society (Hans Böckler Foundation)
2002 - 2013
Confidential Professor of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1998 - 2013Chair of the Literaturkommission für Westfalen (LWL regional authority Westphalia-Lippe)
2009 - 2011Referee for the VW Foundation in the Programme "Schlüsselthemen der Geisteswissenschaften"
2008 - 2011Conception, Spokeswoman and Board Member of the Graduate School Practices of Literature
2004 - 2010
Senator for the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
2004Mitglied im DFG-Fachkollegium für Literatur-, Theater-, Medienwissenschaften

Appointments

04/2002Offer to a Professorship (C4) , University of Tübingen (rejected)

Publications

Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2025)
In: Von Schlieffen, Katharina (eds.), Handbuch Juristische Rhetorik. Boston/ Berlin: De Gruyter.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Doering, Pia; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2024)
In: Literatur für Leser:innen, 23(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Gutmann, Thomas; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (eds.) (2024)
Berlin: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2024)
In: Kumlehn, Martina; Gärtner, Judith; Wodianka, Stephanie (eds.), Zukunftsnarrative. Zur Deutungsmacht kultureller Erzählmuster. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2024)
In: MLN, Modern Language Notes, 139(3)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
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Projects

Duration: 01/09/2023 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 20/10/2022 - 20/10/2022 | 1st Funding period
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster
Duration: 01/06/2022 - 31/12/2023
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
Duration: 01/10/2020 - 31/12/2021
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
Duration: 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
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Talks

Autofiktion
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (17/10/2024)
Ein Impulsvortrag im Rahmen des Mercator-Fellowships im GRK 2806 „Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten…, Universität Erlangen
Type of talk: scientific talk
,Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben‘. Autobiographie als Maskenspiel
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (28/09/2024)
43. Nietzsche-Kolloquium: ,Warum ich so klug bin‘, Sils-Maria
Type of talk: scientific talk
Telling (about) churches. On Theodor Fontane's ,Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg'
Martina, Wagner-Egelhaaf (18/04/2024)
"Der hat auch Religion’. Konfession - Literatur - kulturelle Differenz im langen 10. Jahrhundert“ - eine Tagung an der…, Franckesche Stiftungen, Haus 52, Neubauer-Saal
Type of talk: scientific talk
Figures of hate. Literary perspectives between religion and politics
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (16/03/2024)
Eine Tagung des Politischen Clubs zum Thema „Religion und Politik. Eine Verhältnisbestimmung“ , Evangelische Akademie Tutzing
Type of talk: scientific talk
Figuren des Hasses zwischen Literatur, Religion und Politik
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (13/03/2024)
Zweijahrestagung des Arbeitskreises der katholischen Neutestamentler:innen zum Thema "Affekte und Emotionen", Akademie Franz Hitze-Haus, Münster
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Prizes

Frauenförderpreis 2002 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Awarded by: Rektorat der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Award given to: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina; Bischoff, Doerte
Announced at: 17/01/2003 | Date of awarding: 17/01/2003
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Zuschauen und Entscheiden im Theater der Gegenwart
Candidate: Schwemin, Inga | Supervisors: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina | Reviewers: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Period of time: 01/10/2021 - 01/10/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Naturverhältnisse in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
Candidate: Huck, Cristine | Supervisors: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina | Reviewers: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Period of time: 01/10/2019 - 01/10/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Geltung der Literatur. Zur Rhetorik literarischer Geltungsbehauptungen in Poetiken und Kritiken des 18. Jahrunderts und ihrer Bezugnahme auf das Recht
Candidate: Heger, Gesine | Supervisors: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Period of time: 01/01/2020 - 01/07/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Nathan's Hate. On the Reception of Lessing's Nathan the Wise in Contemporary Drama
Candidate: Pulpanek, Hanna Clara | Supervisors: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina | Reviewers: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Period of time: 01/12/2019 - 01/06/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Zur Darstellung des Mahdi und seines Reiches in der deutschsprachigen Kultur
Candidate: Othman, Omer Adam Abdulrahman | Supervisors: Wagner-Egelhaa, Martina | Reviewers: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina; Sproede, Alfred
Period of time: 01/12/2018 - 01/06/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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