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PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter

Oberstudienrat im Hochschuldienst

Raum: GB 6/152
Tel: +49 (0)234 32-25060
Email: uwe.klawitter@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter
PD Dr. Uwe Klawitter
© Englisches Seminar
Biographische Daten
  • 1982-1989 Studium der Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Germanistik an den Universitäten Köln und Düsseldorf (M.A.)
  • 1989/90 Fremdsprachenassistent in Reading, England; daneben andere Lehrtätigkeiten als Deutschlehrer u.a. am London Institute of Education (Universität London)
  • 1990/91 Lehrerstudium am Sidney Sussex College der Universität Cambridge (Postgraduate Certificate in Education)
  • 1991/92 Lehrauftrag für Wirtschaftsenglisch an der Universität Düsseldorf
  • 1992/93 Deutschlehrer und Übersetzer in Cambridge, England
  • seit 1994 Wiss. Mitarbeiter am Englischen Seminar der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • Promotion 1996
  • Habilitation 2001Oktober 2007
  • Gastaufenthalt an der University of South Carolina
  • Aug.-Dez. 2015 Gastdozentur an der Central Michigan University
Forschungsschwerpunkte
  • Drama der Renaissance
  • Zeitgenössische Lyrik
Publikationen

The Theme of Totalitarianism in 'English' Fiction: Koestler, Orwell, Vonnegut, Kosinski, Burgess, Atwood, Amis. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997.

"Improvisation." Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik. Ed. G. Ueding. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1998.

Die Darstellung des einfachen Volkes in Shakespeares Dramen: Eine ideologiekritische Studie. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004.

"Zur Parodie nichtliterarischer Textsorten in der englischen Gegenwartslyrik." AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 29, no. 2, 2004, pp. 151-71.

"Intermedial Relations: Contemporary British Poetry and the Mass Media". AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 30, 2005, pp. 77-97.

"Media Criticism in Contemporary British Poetry." ZAA – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 54, no. 4, 2006, pp. 379-92.

"Remembrance and Remediation: The Commemoration of the First World War in British Poetry." KulturPoetik, vol. 7, no. 1, 2007, pp. 24-46.

"Verbovisual Explorations of Textuality: Peter Reading’s collection [untitled] (2001)". Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America, edited by Kornelia Freitag and Katharina Vester. Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies. vol. 8. LIT Verlag, 2008, pp. 187-202.

"Media Convergence and Media Competition: The Publication of Edwin Morgan’s Painting Poems in The Herald (9 September 2005)." Annals of the University of Craiova. Analele Universitatii din Craiova, vol. 10, no. 2, 2009, pp. 135-44.

"Evolution and Progress in H.G. Wells's Short stories: Ideas in(to) Fiction." Annals of the University of Craiova. Analele Univeritatii din Craiova, vol. 11, no. 2, 2010, pp. 160-72.

"The Play as Banquet: Implications of a Metatheatrical Conceit in Jacobean – Caroline Drama." The Peasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature. Ed. Marion Gymnich & Norbert Lennartz. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2010. 125-41.

Review of Against all England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1665, by Robert W. Barrett Jr. Medievalia et Humanistica, new series, no. 36, 2010, pp. 111-13.

"'Unsound Elements Seemed to Have Crept into Her Narrative.' The Representation of Female Writers in Anita Brookner’s Novels Look at Me and Hotel du Lac". Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing in British, Irish and Canadian Fiction after 1945, edited by Anette Pankratz and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Winter, 2012, pp. 131-53.

Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland, edited by Uwe Klawitter and Claus-Ulrich Viol. anglistik & englischunterricht 77, Winter, 2013.

"'Doing Gender.' Poetic Configurations of Femininity and Masculinity." Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland, edited by Uwe Klawitter and Claus-Ulrich Viol. anglistik & englischunterricht 77, Winter, 2013, pp. 157-80.

Review of Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity, by Ralf Hertel. Anglia, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 774-78.

"Skin as an Index to Moral Character in English Renaissance Tragedy". Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference, vol. 8, 2015, pp. 17-27.

"Bernard’s Vision of the Totalitarian State in Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure: A Discourse Analytical View of Political Metaphors." Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel, edited by Zénó Vernyik, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2021, pp. 85-107.