Dr. Robert Craig

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Januar 2017 - August 2024)

Werdegang:

BA (First Class Hons with Distinction) - Modern & Medieval Languages (French & German), University of Cambridge (2007-2011)

MPhil (Distinction) - European Literature & Culture, University of Cambridge (2011-2012: AHRC Award)

PhD - 'The Dialectic of Nature and the Self in Alfred D?blin's Work before 1933', University of Cambridge (2012-2016: AHRC Award)

DAAD Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universit?t Berlin (Juli-Oktober 2016)

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg (Januar 2017-August 2024)

Projekte

‘Bodies, Embodiment, and Environment in German and British Modernism: A Comparative Exploration' (Postdoc-Projekt)

‘Posthumanism and the Posthuman: Chances and Challenges in German and European Literature and Culture' (zusammen mit Kolleginnen an den Universit?ten Cambridge und London (KCL))

Publikationen, Tagungen und Vortr?ge

Bücher:

Alfred D?blin: Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners, 1900-1933 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2021), 218 S.

Hg. mit Ina Linge, Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), 428 S.

Artikel und Kapitel:

‘Rainer Maria Rilke’s Dark Ecology’, in Daniela Dora and Katie Ritson (Hg.), Ecology in German Literary Criticism, Oxford German Studies, 51:3 (2022), 256-71.

'Learning from Psychiatry? Gottfried Benn, Alfred D?blin, and the Limits of "Narrative Medicine"', Open Library of Humanities, 8:2 (2022). Den 'open-access' Artikel finden Sie hier.

'Monsters and other cyborgs: the "post-human" in Alfred D?blin's Berge Meere und Giganten', in: Steffan Davies and David Midgley (Hg.), Internationales Alfred-D?blin-Kolloquium Cambridge 2017: Natur, Technik und das (Post-)Humane in den Schriften Alfred D?blins (Bern: Peter Lang, 2019), S. 243-59.

(mit Ina Linge), 'Introduction: Can Science and Literature Share a Language?', in: Robert Craig & Ina Linge (Hg.), Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), S. 1-30.

'The City as Creature: Reconfiguring the Creaturely Self in Alfred D?blin's Berlin Alexanderplatz', in: Robert Craig & Ina Linge (Hg.)., Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), S. 397-422. 

'"Ist die Schwarze K?chin da? Jajaja...": Mimesis and Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel', Monatshefte, 108:1 (2016), 99-119.

'Dilthey, Gadamer, and Facebook: Towards a New Hermeneutics of the Social Network', The Modern Language Review, 110:1 (2015), 184-203.

(mit Holger Sievert), 'Using International Corporate Communication Theory for the Strategic Practice of Merger Communication - Why the Globally Oriented DaimlerChrysler Deal Had to End Up in Conflict Because of a Failure to Take Communicational Issues Into Account', in Z.C. Li & C.A. Spaulding (Hg.), 15th International Public Relations Research Conference - Using Theory for Strategic Practice Through Global Engagement and Conflict Research: March 8-10, 2012, S. 584-613.

Rezensionen:

Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones: Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain. Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones: Englishness: The Political Force Transforming Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 259:1(2022), 185-87.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science, Ed. Steven Meyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 257:2 (2020), 172-73.

Podcasts und Radiosendungen:

'Charles III. in Deutschland: "Eindruck einer Ann?herung"', Interview, WDR 5 Morgenego, 29.03.23.

'Tod der Queen: Wichtiger Wendepunkt für das Land', Interview, WDR 5 Morgenecho,19.09.22.

'Tagesgespr?ch: Queen Elizabeth ist tot. Was wird fehlen?', Tagesgespr?ch, Bayern 2, Freitag 09.09.22, 12:05-13:00 Uhr.

'Ecology in German Literary Criticism: Recent Developments and Approaches', DAAD-Cambridge Hub, Januar 2021.

Konferenzorganisationen:

Posthumanism and the Posthuman: Chances & Challenges in German & Eruopean Literature and Culture (Leitung des Organisationsteams. Mitorganistorinnen: Annegret M?rten und Dr. Rebecca Wismeg-Kammerlander (KCL)), Institute of Languages, Cultures, Societies, University of London, March 2023.

'Ringing the changes? Literary and Cultural responses to the Anthropocene': Vortragsrunde und Podiumsdiskussion, Annual Conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, University of Bristol, September 2021.

'Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in German Literature': Vortragsrunde und Podiumsdiskussion (Mitorganisatorin: Dr. Nicola Thomas (Oxford)), Annual Conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, University of Bristol, September 2019.

Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 (Mitorganisatorinnen: Dr. Anja Neumann und Dr. Ina Linge (Cambridge)), University of Cambridge, April 2015.

Vortr?ge und Vorlesungen (Auswahl):

'The British School System: Entrenched Inequality?'. BaTEG Thementag ?Schulsysteme weltweit“/ "School systems around the world“ 2023, Universit?t Bamberg, Juli 2023.

'Shadows of Empire: How (not) to remember Britain's tricky past', verfilmte ?ffentliche Vorlesung an der Volkshochschule Bamberg, 20. Juni 2023.

"Must Rhodes fall?" Col