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Dr. Dennis Borghardt

Current affiliations

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

  • Modern German Literature (16th–21st cent.)
  • Reception of Antiquity
  • Aesthetics and Philosophy of Nature in the Early Modern Period
  • Genre Poetics
  • Contemporary literature
  • Literary Theory
  • Literary Criticism / Literary Awards
  • Poetic Realism

Academic Education

10/2025 - 03/2026Fellow in the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies “Imaginaria of Force” (University of Hamburg)
10/2010 - 03/2018Ph.D. at the Graduate School “Practices of Literature” at the University of Münster (dissertation title: “Attractive and Repulsive Natures: On Mechanics, Aesthetics, and Poetics in the Reception of Antiquity in the Early Modern Period”
09/2012 - 04/2013Research stay in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
11/2010University of Münster: State Examination in Greek
04/2010University of Münster: State Examination in Philosophy
06/2009University of Münster: State Examination in German and Latin
10/2003 - 06/2009University of Münster: German, Latin, Greek, and Philosophy
04/2002 - 09/2003 University of Münster: German, Latin, and Social Sciences

Work Experience

since 04/2023Lecturer for Special Assignments at the Department of German Studies at the University of Münster
04/2021 - 03/2023Research Assistant at the Department of German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Alexandra Pontzen)
04/2018 - 03/2021Research Assistant in the DFG research project “Literary Prizes in the German-Speaking World Since 1990: Functions and Effects” (Project Number: 347223522) at the University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2015 - 03/2018Research Assistant at the Department of German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Alexandra Pontzen)
10/2014 - 09/2015Lecturer at the Department of German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2009 - 09/2015Lecturer at the University of Münster (German Studies and Classical Philology)
10/2014 - 03/2015Research Assistant (temporary position) at the Department of German Studies at Ruhr University Bochum (Prof. Natalie Binczek)
07/2009 - 08/2012Research Assistant at the Gregor of Nyssa Research Center at the University of Münster
10/2007 - 06/2009Student Assistant at the Gregor of Nyssa Research Center at the University of Münster

Functions and Memberships

since 10/2024Mitglied, Promotionsausschuss, Fachbereich 09 (Philologie), Universität Münster
since 10/2024Mitglied, Forschungsbeirat, Fachbereich 09 (Philologie), Universität Münster
since 10/2023Mitglied, Lehrplanungskommission, Germanistisches Institut, Universität Münster
10/2019 - 03/2023stv. Mittelbauvertreter, Mittelbau, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
04/2011 - 03/2012stv. Sprecher, Promovierende, Graduate School ›Practices of Literature‹, Universität Münster
04/2011 - 03/2012Mitglied, Auswahlkommission, Graduate School ›Practices of Literature‹, Universität Münster
04/2011 - 03/2012Mitglied, Vorstand, Graduate School ›Practices of Literature‹, Universität Münster

Publications

Kraft und Bewegung. Zur Mechanik, Ästhetik und Poetik in der Antikenrezeption der Frühen Neuzeit. Hamburg: Meiner 2021
Dennis Borghardt (2021)
Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.
Book (monograph) | Published

Prizes

Dissertationspreis des Fachbereichs Philologie der WWU Münster
Awarded by: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Award given to: Borghardt, Dennis
Announced at: 06/12/2019 | Date of awarding: 15/12/2019
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction