Gerhard Lauer Explained
Gerhard Lauer (born November 14, 1962) is a German literary scholar. He is currently Gutenberg Professor of Book Studies at the University of Mainz.[1] He works on literary history, reading studies, and digital humanities.[2]
Lauer initially studied literary studies, philosophy, and musicology at the Saarland University and University of Tübingen, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Munich. He was then trained in German studies and Jewish studies. He went on to complete his Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 on the history of scholarship in exile with Wolfgang Frühwald as his doctoral supervisor. In 2000 he defended his habilitation on the rise of the Haskalah.
In 2002 he succeeded Wilfried Barner, who had succeeded Albrecht Schöne in 1992, as chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Göttingen. Professor Lauer is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[3] was distinguished Max Kade visiting professor at the Washington University in St. Louis,[4] senior research fellow at the Institut of Advances Studies/St Mary's College, Durham University,[5] is a cofounding editor of the Journal of Literary Theory, associate editor of the journal Scientific Study of Literature, and of the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch.
Works
- Die verspätete Revolution. Erich Kahler. Wissenschaftsgeschichte zwischen konservativer Revolution und Exil. De Gruyter 1995.
- Rückkehr des Autors. Zur Erneuerung eines umstrittenen Begriffs (with Fotis Jannidis, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko. Niemeyer 1999.
- Regeln der Bedeutung. Zur Theorie der Bedeutung literarischer Texte (with Fotis Jannidis, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko. De Gruyter 2003.
- Exile, Science, and Bildung : The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals (with David Kettler). Palgrave Macmillan 2005.
- Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert (with Thorsten Unger). Wallstein 2008.
- Die Rückseite der Haskala. Geschichte einer kleinen Aufklärung. Wallstein 2008.
- Grenzen der Literatur. Zu Begriff und Phänomen des Literarischen (with Simone Winko and Fotis Jannidis. De Gruyter 2009.
- Die Erfindung des Schriftstellers Thomas Mann (with Michael Ansel and Hans-Edwin Friedrich). De Gruyter 2009.
- Literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Generationsforschung. Wallstein 2010.
- Lexikon Literaturwissenschaft. Hundert Grundbegriffe (with Christine Ruhrberg). Reclam 2011.
- Kunst und Empfindung. Zur Genealogie einer kunsttheoretischen Fragestellung in Deutschland und Frankreich im 18. Jahrhundert (with Elisabeth Décultot). Winter 2012.
- Herder und die Künste. Ästhetik, Kunsttheorie, Kunstgeschichte (with Elisabeth Décultot). Winter 2013.
- Constantin Brunner im Kontext. Ein Intellektueller zwischen Kaiserreich und Exil (with Irene Aue-Ben-David and Jürgen Stenzel). Oldenbourg 2014.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt. Schriften zur Bildung. Stuttgart: Reclam 2017.
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Race and Natural History, 1750–1850 (with Nicolaas Rupke). Routledge 2019.
- West-Östliche Wahlverwandtschaften. Hans Bethge und die historischen und ästhetischen Konstellationen um 1900 (with Yixu Lu). Königshausen & Neumann. 2020.
- Was macht die Digitalisierung mit den Hochschulen (with Bert te Wildt, Robin Schmidt, Marko Demantowsky). De Gruyter 2020.
- Lesen im digitalen Zeitalter. wbg Academics 2020. .
- Fabula 64(1/2). Special Issue: Computational Folktale Studies. (Guest-Ed.) 2023.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Book Studies. University of Mainz.
- 10.7722/j.ctt5vj848. Burrows's Delta and its Use in German Literary History. Distant Readings.
- Web site: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer . https://web.archive.org/web/20161028082942/https://adw-goe.de/mitglieder/personendetails/person/gerhard-lauer/ . Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities . 28 October 2016.
- Web site: University Website Entry. Washington University in St. Louis.
- Web site: IAS Entry. Institute of Advanced Study.
