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Prof. Dr. Florian Kläger

Prof. Dr. Florian Kläger


English Literature


Academic Degrees

2014Habilitation: English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Münster
2005Doctorate: English Studies, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf
2002Magister degree in English Studies, Medieval History, Modern History, Recent History, Ancient History, Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz


Professional Background

Since 2016Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth
2015 – 2016

Acting Chair of British Studies,University of Münster

2014 – 2015

Acting Chair of British Cultural Studies,Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg


2008 – 2014Research Fellow, English Department, University of Münster
2007 – 2008

Lecturer and Translator, 4-Real Intermedia, Offenbach


2005 – 2007

Graduate assistant, lecturer, English Studies, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf

2002 – 2005Scholarship recipient in the DFG research training group "Europäische Geschichtsdarstellungen", Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf


Other

  • Editor Symbolism. An International Annual for Critical Aesthetics
  • Scientific Advisory Board Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power


English Literature


  • literary theory
  • genre theory (especially relating to novels written in English)
  • British literature and culture of the early modern period
  • the literature of the diaspora
  • literature and science (especially literary astroculture)


English Literature


Selected publications

2024

Klaeger, Florian
Sidereal messages : Print letters in Restoration astronomical writing
in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies volume 47 (2024) issue 1. - page 59-76
doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12926 ...

2023

Klaeger, Florian
Nach der verlorenen Zeit : Chronoferenz und Verzeitung in Thomas Sprats "History of the Royal S ...
Zeiten bezeichnen: Frühneuzeitliche Epochenbegriffe : europäische Geschichte und globale Gegenwart
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2023. - page 251-266 . - (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen; 177)

Klaeger, Florian
"The planet-like music of poetry" : The Music of the Spheres and the Poetics of Mimesis in Spen ...
in Etudes Epistémè : Revue de littérature et de civilisation (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) volume 43 (2023)
https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/16265

2022

Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Einleitung: Literarische Form
Form
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2022. - page 3-69 . - (Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft)

Form
publ: Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2022 . - (Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft)

Klaeger, Florian
The Ode
An Introduction to Poetic Forms
New York : Routledge, 2022. - page 184-193
doi:10.4324/9781003244004-21 ...

2021

Klaeger, Florian
Golden Worlds and Brazen Lies : Astronomy and Poetry in English Renaissance Poetics
Translating Renaissance Experience
Montréal : Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2021. - page 45-66 . - (Vita Traductiva; 12)

Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Introduction: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism
in Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics volume 20 (2021) . - page 1-18
doi:10.1515/9783110716962-001 ...

Special Focus: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism
publ: Ahrens, Rüdiger; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
2021. - VIII, 260 page
doi:10.1515/9783110716962 ...

Klaeger, Florian
"This Prospect vast" : Astronomy in Eighteenth-century British Poetics
Final Frontiers : Exploring, Discovering and Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment
Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021. - page 43-60 . - (Landau Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century; 7)

2019

Klaeger, Florian
Harmonie ist eine Strategie : Gattungs- und Formwissen in Ali Smiths "Brexit-Roman" Autumn (201 ...
Transformationen Europas in der Literatur und Ästhetik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : zur Ästhetik und Wissensgeschichte der interkulturellen Moderne
Bielefeld : transcript, 2019. - page 371-388
https://books.google.de/books?id=-Sy4DwAAQBAJ&pg=P ...

Klaeger, Florian
Mimesis
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019. - page 350-357
doi:10.1515/9783110279818-044 ...

Klaeger, Florian
Thalesian Lessons : Mad Astronomers in British Fiction of the Long Eighteenth Century
Reading Swift : papers from the seventh Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift
Paderborn : Fink, 2019. - page 283-310

2018

Literarische Form : Theorien – Dynamiken – Kulturen ; Beiträge zur literarischen Modellforschun ...
publ: Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. - 477 page . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte; 371)

Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Across Philologies : Aesthetic Modelling and Literary Form
Literarische Form : Theorien – Dynamiken – Kulturen ; Beiträge zur literarischen Modellforschung = Literary Form : Theories – Dynamics – Cultures ; Perspectives on Literary Modelling
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. - page 9-27 . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte; 371)

Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
publ: Gill, Patrick; Klaeger, Florian
New York : Routledge, 2018 . - (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Klaeger, Florian
The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s
Limiting Outer Space : Astroculture after Apollo
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - page 131-154 . - (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
doi:10.1057/978-1-137-36916-1_6 ...

Gill, Patrick; Klaeger, Florian
Introduction : Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
New York : Routledge, 2018. - page 1-14 . - (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Klaeger, Florian
Reading into the Stars : Cosmopoetics in the Contemporary Novel
Heidelberg : Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 2018 . - (Anglistische Forschungen; 462)

2016

Early Modern Constructions of Europe : literature, culture, history
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Bayer, Gerd
New York ; London : Routledge, 2016 . - (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; 29)

rev.: Walser-Bürgler, Isabella; in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 69 (2016), Heft 3/4, S. 209–16

Klaeger, Florian; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Einleitung
Europa gibt es doch... : Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur
Paderborn : Fink, 2016. - page 7-20

Europa gibt es doch... : Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
Paderborn : Fink, 2016. - 256 page

Erdbeer, Robert Matthias; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
La Forma Literaria
in Insula : Revista de letras y ciencias humanas (2016) issue 829-830. - page 45-47

Klaeger, Florian
Die Grenzen der Zivilisation
Europa gibt es doch... : Krisendiskurse im Blick der Literatur
Paderborn : Fink, 2016. - page 79-102

Klaeger, Florian; Bayer, Gerd
Introduction : Early Modern Constructions of Europe
Early Modern Constructions of Europe : literature, culture, history
New York ; London : Routledge, 2016. - page 1-23

Klaeger, Florian
Theorizing Reflexivity in Literature, Law and Diaspora
Diaspora, Law and Literature
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016. - page 113-133 . - (Law & Literature; 12)
doi:10.1515/9783110489255-008 ...

2015

Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2015. - 400 page

Klaeger, Florian
Insularity, Invasion and Identity : "European" National Genesis in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-c ...
in Journal for the Study of British Cultures volume 22 (2015) issue 2. - page 159-176

Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Introduction
Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2015. - page 1-7

2014

Klaeger, Florian
Form und Funktion : Martin Amis' Verhandlungen von Autorschaft und Roman zwischen Politik und R ...
Autorschaften im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Politik
Würzburg : Ergon, 2014. - page 167-188 . - (Religion und Politik; 8)

Klaeger, Florian
Here Comes Everybody : Anthropological Hyperbole in Some Recent Novels
in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik volume 62 (2014) issue 4. - page 291-308
doi:10.1515/zaa-2014-0033 ...

Klaeger, Florian
Introduction : Symbols of Diaspora
Symbolism : Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2014. - page 3-17 . - (Symbolism; 14)
doi:10.1515/9783110407990.3 ...

Symbolism : Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora
publ: Ahrens, Rüdiger; Stierstorfer, Klaus; Klaeger, Florian
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2014 . - (Symbolism; 14)
doi:10.1515/9783110407990 ...

Klaeger, Florian
Was der Roman kann, darf und soll : autopoetologische Verhandlungen der Romanform nach 9/11
Poetiken des Terrors : Narrative des 11. September 2001 im interkulturellen Vergleich
Heidelberg : University Press Winter, 2014. - page 73-91 . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte; 328)
rev.: Simone Sauer-Kretschmer

2013

Klaeger, Florian
Something Nasty in the Bookshop : The Feminisation of Fiction in Martin Amis's "Gynocratic" Nov ...
in Anglistik volume 24 (2013) issue 1. - page 89-100

Gill, Patrick; Klaeger, Florian
"You didn’t set me up. Did you?" : Genre, authorship and absence in Martin Amis's London Fields ...
in Trespassing : An Online Journal of Trespassing Art, Science, and Philosophy volume 2 (2013) . - page 36-51
http://trespassingjournal.org/Issue2/TPJ_I2_Gill_K ...

2012

Klaeger, Florian
Reading Iconic Spaces : the Public House in the Contemporary Condition-of-England Novel
Spatial Representations of British Identities
Heidelberg : University Press Winter, 2012. - page 63-81 . - (Anglistik und Englischunterricht; 75)

2011

Klaeger, Florian
"Historical Dialogues" : zur Rolle des Dialogs bei der Konstruktion und Konfrontation historisc ...
Zwischen Wissen und Politik : Archäologie und Genealogie frühneuzeitlicher Vergangenheitskonstruktionen
Heidelberg : University Press Winter, 2011. - page 131-159 . - (Akademiekonferenzen; 6)

2010

Klaeger, Florian
"A Country We Once Called Our Home" : Negotiations of Home in Contemporary Irish Drama
Constructions of home : interdisciplinary studies in architecture, law, and literature
New York : AMS Press, 2010. - page 143-156 . - (AMS Studies in Cultural History; 9)

2009

Klaeger, Florian
"Negative hilarity" : Anti-Comedy in The Information and Troilus and Cressida
"My age is as a lusty winter" : essays in honour of Peter Erlebach and Thomas Michael Stein
Trier : WVT, 2009. - page 71-84 . - (Mainz University Studies in English; 15)

2008

Klaeger, Florian
Gunesekera, Romesh : Reef (1994)
Novels Part I
Trier : WVT, 2008. - page 245-261 . - (Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture; 2,1)

2006

Klaeger, Florian
Forgone Nations : constructions of national identity in Elizabethan historiography and literatu ...
Trier : WVT, 2006. - 303 page . - (Anglistik, Amerikanistik, Anglophonie; 3)

Bayreuther Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
publ: Klaeger, Florian; Steppat, Michael; Wolf, Gerhard
Berlin : peterlang

Symbolism : an International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
publ: Ahrens, Rüdiger; Klaeger, Florian; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Berlin, Boston : de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/205312


English Literature


Prof. Dr. Florian Kläger

University of Bayreuth

95447 Bayreuth

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