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PD Dr. Florian Kläger

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Early modern British literature and culture
  • The novel in English
  • Astroculture
  • Genre theory
  • Contemporary Irish drama
  • Philosophy and theory of literature

Academic Education

10/2002 - 11/2005PhD programme at DFG graduate school "Europäische Geschichtsdarstellungen", Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
10/1996 - 02/2002M.A. English Literature, History, and Ancient History (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
09/1998 - 07/1999English Literature, History, National University of Ireland, Galway

Work Experience

since 10/2015Substitute Professor of British Studies, University of Münster
since 06/2008Assistant Professor, British Studies, WWU Münster
10/2014 - 09/2015Substitute professor of British Cultural Studies, University of Würzburg
05/2007 - 05/2008Translator and copy-editor, 4-Real Intermedia, Offenbach
10/2004 - 02/2007Lecturer, English Dept., HHU Düsseldorf

Functions and Memberships

since 2015External reviewer: Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA)
since 2014Reviewer, "Miranda. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone"
since 2014Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
since 2014German Association for the Study of British Cultures
since 2014German Shakespeare Society
since 2013International Spenser Society
since 2013British Society for Literature and Science
since 2011Modern Language Association (MLA)
since 2008Deutscher Anglistenverband (German Association of University Teachers of English)
since 2008European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
2013 - 2014International Comparative Literature Association

Publications

The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s
Kläger Florian (2017)
In: Geppert Alexander (eds.), Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture after Apollo . London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Einleitung
Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina; Kläger, Florian (2016)
In: Kläger, Florian; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (eds.), Europa gibt es doch... Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Die Grenzen der Zivilisation: Räumliche und historische Verortungen englischer und europäischer Identität in der frühen Neuzeit
Kläger Florian (2016)
In: Kläger Florian, Wagner-Egelhaaf Martina (eds.), Europa gibt es doch... Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Literarische Form
Erdbeer Matthias, Kläger Florian, Stierstorfer Klaus (eds.) (2016)
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law, and Diaspora
Kläger Florian (2016)
In: Stierstorfer Klaus, Carpi Daniela (eds.), Diaspora, Law and Literature. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

"Orbis Britannicus versus Orbis Europaeus?" Negotiations of National and European Identities in British and Irish Literature
Duration: 01/07/2012 - 30/06/2015
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project
Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging (COHAB)
Duration: 01/11/2011 - 31/12/2015
Funded by: EC FP 7 - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks
Type of project: EU-project hosted at University of Münster
Diaspora Project Consortium (DSC)
Duration: 01/10/2009 - 30/09/2012
Funded by: EC - Lifelong Learning Programme: Erasmus
Type of project: EU-project hosted at University of Münster