Professor Fludernik | Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
CHAIR FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE
monika.fludernik@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
☎ +49 761 203-3313
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2408-702X
PERSONAL DATA
Monika Fludernik, Mag. phil. Dr. phil., Univ.-Doz., Professor
Born: 6 March, 1957 in Graz (Austria)
Nationality: Austrian
LANGUAGES
- German (native language)
- English
- French
- Russian (school level)
- Japanese (beginner)
- Classical languages: Latin, Greek, Sanskrit
EDUCATION
1975 | Graduation from Austrian grammar school (Gymnasium) |
Fall 1975 | Immatriculation at the University of Graz Subjects: English Language & Literature, Indo-European Philology, Mathematics, History, later French |
09/1982 | Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in English and Indo-European Philology Dissertation: "Erzähler- und Figurenrede in James Joyces Ulysses" ('Narrator's and Characters' Voices in Ulysses') Supervisor: F.K. Stanzel |
11/1983 | M.A. (Mag.phil.) in English and History |
12/1992 | Univ.-Dozent (tenure) for English and American Literature and Text Linguistics University of Vienna |
FELLOWSHIPS
1980 – 1981 | Research grant by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research to Oxford Dissertation inofficially supervised by Richard Ellmann |
1987 – 1988 | Erwin Schrödinger Auslandsstipendium – Research grant to use library facilities at Harvard Visiting Scholar at Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University |
1990 – 1991 | Fellow at the National Humanities Center at Research Triangle Park, NC Funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the A.W. Mellon Foundation |
1993 – 1994 | Humboldt Fellowship Project on the historical present tense and narrative structure in early Modern English, Freiburg |
2001 | Michaelmas Term – Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford |
2009 – 2010 | Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) |
2014 – 2015 | Fellow at the Institut d'Études Avancées (Paris) |
2019 – 2020 | Internal Senior Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) |
2022 | Michaelmas Term – Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford |
PRIZES / AWARDS
- Perkins Prize 1996 for Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (ex aequo with Judith Roof for her Come as You Are): awarded at SSNL conference at Northwestern University in April 1998
- Landesforschungspreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg 2001 – National Research Award of the state of Baden-Württemberg
- Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award 2024
MEMBERSHIPS
- Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2000–)
- Elected Member of the Academia Europaea, London (2008–)
- Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society (2023–)
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
1977 – 1978 | Tutor for German at the Oxford Polytechnic |
1979 – 1980 & 1983–1984 |
Graduate assistant (Studienassistent and Vertragsassistent) in the English Department of Graz University |
1984 – 1992 | Assistant professor (Assistent) at Vienna University, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
12/1992 | Tenured as associate professor (Universitäts-Dozent) |
Since 10/1994 | Professor of English (endowed chair position) at the University of Freiburg |
CALLS / PLACEMENTS
1994 | University of Freiburg (accepted) |
1999 | University of Vienna (rejected) |
2004 | Shortlisted Regius Chair, University of Glasgow |
2005 | Shortlisted Chair for General and Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam |
2010 | Freie Universität Berlin/Germany (rejected) |
ADMINISTRATION
1995 – 1996 | Pro-Dean of the Philosophische Fakultät III |
1999 – 2000 | Dean of the Philosophische Fakultät III |
Since 1995 | Several times member of the Faculty Board |
Several times since 1997 | Chair of the English Department |
OFFICES HELD
1986 | Secretary of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Nordamerikastudien at Vienna University |
1986 – 1987 | Secretary of the Austrian Association for American Studies (replaced in July 1987 before leaving for the U.S.) |
1986 – 2003 | Member of the Görres-Gesellschaft Advisory Board |
1997 – 1999 | Board member of the Deutscher Anglistenverband |
1997 – 2006 | President of IALS (International Association of Literary Semantics) |
1996 – 2000 | Vice Chair of the collaborative research centre SFB 541 Identitäten und Alteritäten ('Identies and Alterities') |
2000 – 2003 | Chair of the SFB 541 |
2002 – 2006 | Elected member of the University Senate |
2006 – 2008 | Board member of the Deutscher Anglistenverband |
2008 – 2012 | Director of the PhD research group Geschichte und Erzählen ('History and Narrative') |
2012 – 2021 | Director of the graduate school GRK 1767 Faktuales und Fiktionales Erzählen ('Factual and Fictional Narration') |
2013 – 2021 | Member of the collaborative research centre SFB 1015 Muße. Grenzen, Raumzeitlichkeit, Praktiken ('Otium. Boundaries, Chronotopes, Practices') and member of the directing board and Konzeptgruppe (2012-2021) |
2019 – 2024 | Principal Investigator Reinhart-Koselleck-Projekt der DFG "Diachronic Narratology" |
EDITORSHIP & EDITORIALBOARD MEMBERSHIP
Editor of the book series:
- Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium (with Ansgar Nünning; Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995–2001)
- Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (new) Media (with Sieglinde Lemke; Peter Lang, 2011–)
- Faktuales und Fiktionales Erzählen (Ergon-Verlag, 2014–)
- Otium (with Thomas Böhm, Elisabeth Cheauré, Gregor Dobler, Günter Figal, Hans W. Hubert, and Peter-Philipp Riedl; Mohr Siebeck, 2015–)
On the editorial board of the book series:
- Narratologia. Contributions to Narrative Theory (de Gruyter)
On the editorial board of the following journals:
- Style (1994–)
- Language and Literature (1997–)
- Arcadia (2013–)
On the advisory board of the following journals:
- New Literary History (2001–2009)
- RANAM (2002–)
- Poetics Today (2007–)
- Textus (journal of the AIA, Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), (2008–)
- member of Comité Scientifique International of the journal GRAAT (Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américainesde Tours) (2006–)
Serving as referee for the following journals and research centers:
- Style; Journal of Pragmatics; Language and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Poetics Today
- Member of the Academic Committee for the Helsinki Centre of Advanced Studies/Helsinki Colloqium (awards research fellowships) 1999-2002
- Refereeing also for DFG (German Research Council); Evangelisches Studienwerk; Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; Helsinki Academy of Sciences; the Leverhulme Trust; FWF Vienna
- External evaluator of Helsinki University departments of Humanities (October 2005)
- External evaluator for the Exellence Initiative of the German Research Council in July 2006
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for the Courant Research Centre "Multi-layered Text Protocol: Micro and Macro Level
- Structures in Written Discourse" (July 2009)
- Refereeing for Schweizerischer Nationalfonds
- Refereeing for the following publishers (manuscripts and proposals): Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, de Gruyter
ORGANIZER
Lecture Series (Ringvorlesung)
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Conferences
- Second International Conference of the International Association for Literary Semantics (IALS)
1-4 September 1997, Freiburg - Grenzgänger – first conference of the SFB 541 Identitäten und Alteritäten (CRC 541 'Identies and Alterities')
February 1998, Freiburg - Migration and Multiculturalism – Baden-Württemberg Symposium
October 2002 - Current Trends in Narratology
14-16 June 2007, Freiburg - Linguistics & Literary Studies: Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers
8-10 July 2009, FRIAS (co-organised with Peter Auer and Werner Frick) - Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg – Annual conference of German scholars of English
September 2011 (co-organised with Bernd Kortmann) - Symmetry, Proportion and Seriality: The Semantics of Mirroring and Repetition in Science and the Arts – Academia Europaea conference
26-28 May 2016, FRIAS (co-organised with Martin Middeke and Andreas Buchleitner) - Handbook Narrative Factuality – International conference with contributors
6-8 July 2017, Freiburg - Lying and Other Fictions
15-16 February 2019, Freiburg
Smaller Colloquia
- Colloquium on the Noble Savage (November 1999)
- Colloquium with Hayden White (February 2003)
- Colloquium on Free Indirect Discourse (January 2005)
- Colloquium on Law and Literature (February 2005)
- Colloquium "Metaphor and Ideology", with Zoltán Kövesces (June 2010)
- Podium Discussion "Abuse of Power in Prisons" (July 2004)
- Numerous colloquia in the context of the graduate school Factual and Fictional Narration
ASSOCIATIONS
Initiator of EARS (English and American Rhenish Scholars) – Regular once-a-term meetings between English Departments of Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Basel, and Freiburg
Christ Church College, Oxford