Prof. Dr. Silke Horstkotte

Prof. Dr. Silke Horstkotte

Lehrkr. f. bes. Aufg. (Außerplanmäßige Professorin)

Neuere deutsche Literatur und Literaturtheorie
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 3409
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37170

Prof. Dr. Silke Horstkotte

Prof. Dr. Silke Horstkotte

Stand-In Professor

Neuere deutsche Literatur (19. bis 21. Jahrhundert)
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 1401
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37340

Abstract

Silke Horstkotte is Associate Professor in German Literature. Her current research focuses on the representation of religious change in contemporary German-language literature, film and theatre. Other research and teaching interests include the history of literature and media, word-and-image studies, transmedial narratology and comics research. In 2009 she won the John G. Diefenbaker Award and spent a year as a visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; from 2016-18 she worked as a Marie Curie-Skłodowska Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (UK). She has also held guest professorships at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Cologne.

Professional career

  • 01/2004 - 09/2007
    Lecturer in German Studies, University of LeipzigP.I. of the research group "Historical Modes of Perception in Image and Text"
  • 09/2009 - 08/2010
    Visiting Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  • 02/2011 - 09/2011
    Lecturer in German Studies, University of Leipzig
  • 10/2011 - 09/2012
    Professor of German, University of Tübingen
  • 04/2013 - 09/2013
    Professor of German, University of Cologne
  • 10/2013 - 01/2014
    Professor of German, University of Leipzig
  • 04/2014 - 09/2014
    Lecturer in German, University of Leipzig
  • 10/2014 - 03/2016
    Professor of German, University of Leipzig
  • 04/2016 - 03/2018
    Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick (UK)
  • since 04/2018
    Lecturer in German

Education

  • 04/1992 - 12/1998
    M.A. in German Studies, Universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Trinity College Dublin
  • 04/1999 - 02/2002
    Ph.D. in German Studies, University of Leipzig
  • 01/2004 - 06/2008
    Habilitation (advanced doctoral degree) in German Studies, University of Leipzig

My research interests range from contemporary German-language literature through literary image-text-relationships, literary visuality, narratology and comics studies to the interdisciplinary field of literature and religion. A current research project investigates the representation of religious transformations in contemporary literature, film and theater. With Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) I have recently published the study Focalization in Action: Analyses of Graphic Narrative in the "Theory and Interpretation of Narrative" series of Ohio State University Press.

  • Herrmann, L.; Horstkotte, S.
    Gegenwartsliteratur. Eine Einführung.
    Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler. 2016.
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  • Horstkotte, S.; Pedri, N.
    Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
    Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. 2022.
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more publications

  • Andere Stipendien/Forschungspreise: Marie Curie-Skłodowska Research Fellowship
    Horstkotte, Silke (Neuere deutsche Literatur-Literaturtheorie)
    awarded in 2015 by EU Horizon 2020 Programme.
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more awards

  • Neuere deutsche Literatur-Literaturtheorie
    (Post)Secular
    Start Date of Collaboration: 01/03/2018
    Ended on: 30/06/2020
    External participating organisations: University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom)
    Involved persons: Horstkotte, Silke
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more cooperations

  • regelmäßige Vortragsreihe
    #PerspektivenDurchDenken - Leipziger Wissenschaftsdialoge
    Institut für Germanistik
    Event Organiser: Bremerich, Stephanie; Heese, Stefanie; Horstkotte, Silke
    03/02/2021 – 27/01/2022
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more events

In my academic teaching I regularly offer courses on 20th and 21st century literature, media theory, media history and transmedial narratology. For instance, I have taught seminars on vampirism in literature, film and series, and on literary film adaptations. Another teaching focus is on literature and religion, for example the representation of Islam in German-language literature, the literary history of pietism, and theodicy.

  • Fantastic Literature (SoSe 2024)

  • Holocaust literature (SoSe 2024)

  • Sibylle Lewitscharoff (SoSe 2024)

  • Literature in the anthropocene (SoSe 2024)

  • Postsecular literature (SoSe 2024)