The Cultural Dynamics of Genres: Catalysts of Generic Change, Typologies of Genres and Emerging New Genres in Contemporary Fiction

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ansgar Nünning (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) wird einen Abendvortrag (Keynote im Rahmen des 5th Doctoral Symposiums des European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies) zum Thema „The Cultural Dynamics of Genres: Catalysts of Generic Change, Typologies of Genres and Emerging New Genres in Contemporary Fiction” halten.

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Ansgar Nünning has been Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany since 1996. He is the founding director of the Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities and of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) as well as the academic director of the International PhD Program (IPP) "Literary and Cultural Studies" and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Memory Cultures." He has published widely on English and American literature, cultures of memory, narratology, and literary and cultural theory. His most recent publications include Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (2008), Introduction to the Study of Narrative Fiction (with Birgit Neumann, 2008), Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (edited with Vera Nünning, 2003), Metzler Handbuch Promotion: Forschung - Förderung - Finanzierung (edited with Roy Sommer, 2007), An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature (with Vera Nünning, 2007), Kulturwissenschaftliche Literaturwissenschaft (edited with Roy Sommer, 2004), Erzähltextanalyse und Gender Studies (edited with Vera Nünning, 2004), and Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives (with Vera Nünning and Birgit Neumann, 2010).

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