Dr Sabine Rossbach

Biography/ Background

I am a scholar & artist. From my earliest years I have regarded myself as a creative artist. I lay emphasis on this fact, even though later life has led me to take up a university career. The university has enabled me, after all, to write the books (albeit not novels) I wanted to write, and to develop my talents as a painter - some of my drip paintings were exhibited in north Italian galleries in 2004 and 2006. And it has given me time to indulge my enthusiasm for theater, music and cinema, as well as my lifelong passion for museums - even if the objects of my interest have sometimes involved me in long journeys. Throughout my university career I have focused on both research and teaching. I have mainly worked in the field of European cultural studies, specializing in writing, painting, architecture, sculpture and film from 16th to 20th century England and America, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. I am also strongly committed to interdisciplinary studies, above all to the interdependence of the arts (i.e. literature / the fine arts / film / dance / theater) as well as the interface between science and the humanities. My teaching life has been mainly spent in Germany, Italy and Australia, with visiting professorships in South Africa and the U.S.A. I also spent some months in Mexico City, researching Diego Rivera. Since August 2006 I have mainly worked at the University of Adelaide. For nearly fifteen years I have taught at various European and overseas universities, using German (my mother tongue), as well as my fluent English and Italian, as medium of communication. I have taught both undergraduates and postgraduates, above all in courses on European cultural history. I have also supervised a number of PhD theses. My work in Adelaide has familiarized me with the problems of teaching mixed classes with students from very diverse cultural backgrounds. Far from being confined to Australian scholars, the research cooperations I am currently directing have a highly international profile. Moreover their membership is drawn not only from the humanities (including literary scholars, art historians, historians, philosophers and sociologists) but also from disciplines as diverse as economics, medicine, mathematics and engineering.

Individual current research projects:

• "Robots / Cyborgs / Replicants, or: a Cultural History of the Artificial Human" - a joint humanities, medical and engineering project with international cooperation, involving the participation of the University of Adelaide's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

• "Arts and Sciences" - cooperation since 2004 in the establishment of an international research centre for the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) - a Volkswagen Foundation initiative earmarked for a Lichtenberg professorship.

• In preparation: German Film Festival in Adelaide (Sept./Oct. 2008), dedicated to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Sponsors: German Consulate Generale of Germany in Australia, Goethe-Institute (Melbourne) and - hopefully - the University of Adelaide.

• In preparation: an international Conference on "Collective Creativity" in cooperation with the University of New South Wales, the Humboldt-University of Berlin (Germany) and the Goethe-Institute, Sydney (coming up in July 2009).

Qualifications

LANGUAGES

German, English, Italian, French (all vocational) Spanish (reading knowledge)

ACADEMIC TRAINING

Habilitation in 7/2003. Granted 'venia legendi' in 'European Culture & Aesthetics', Faculty of Humanities, University of the Saarland, Germany.

Habilitation thesis: Moderner Manierismus - in Literatur, Film, bildener Kunst (Modern Mannerism - in literature, film, fine arts), published: Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York : Peter Lang 2005.

PhD (summa cum laude) in 12/1997, University of Essen, Germany.

Doctoral thesis: Zur Aesthetik des Haesslichen - von Sade bis Pasolini (The Aesthetics of the Ugly - Sade to Pasolini), published: Stuttgart : Metzler 1998.

Erste Staatspruefung fuer die Lehraemter Sekundarstufe II und I (State High School Teaching Certificate) in German and Mathematics in 6/1993, University of Cologne, Germany.

Degree dissertation, 'Die Mainauer Naturlehre' published in: 'Sudhoffs Archiv' 79 (1995).

RESEARCH GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2/2004 - 7/2004 research grant from the Commerzbank-Foundation (Frankfurt, Germany) held in Mexico City and Yucatan

3/2000 - 3/2003 Lise Meitner Habilitation scholarship from the State of North-Rhine Westphalia

4/1998 - 3/1999 Postdoctoral scholarship from the 'German Academic Exchange Service' (DAAD) held at the University of Pisa (Italy)

7/1996 - 4/1997 ERASMUS scholarship held at the Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)

4/1988 - 2/1993 Undergraduate scholarship from the 'Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes' (German Student Foundation)

Teaching Interests

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, Australia (since 7/2006)

Department of German & European Studies:

• Contemporary European Cinema (upcoming lecture, Sem 2, 2008)
• A Tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (upcoming seminar, Sem 2, 2008)
• Core Course in European Cultural History, 1789 - 1848 : Politics / Society / Culture (lecture, Sem 1, 2008)
• Milestones in European Cultural History, 1945 - present (lecture, Sem 1, 2008)
• Avantgarde in Painting & Literature: Futurism / Expressionism / Dadaism / Surrealism (lecture, Sem 2, 2007)
• Modern Imagination in Europe (lecture, Sem 2, 2007)
• Core Course in European Cultural History, 1848 - 1945: Politics / Society / Culture (lecture, Sem 1, 2007)
• Milestones in German Cultural History, 1945 - present (lecture, Sem 1, 2007)
• Great Literary Texts in Western Civilization: from Dante to Goethe (lecture, Sem 1, 2007)
• Understanding Contemporary Germany (lecture, Sem 2, 2006)
• Detective Stories (seminar, Sem 2, 2006)
• Colloquiums & Tutorials for advanced students in German & European Studies (Sem 2, 2006 - present)

School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

• Seminar in Robotics (Sem 1, 2007)

UNIVERSITY OF THE SAARLAND, Germany (since 10/2001)

Department of Comparative Literature

• Am Rande des Wahnsinns: Fallstudien nach E.T.A. Hoffmann, E. A. Poe, F. Dostojewskij und anderen (Madness & Literature, lecture in 'European literature', winter semester 2004/05 - summer semester 2005)
• Literatur vor dem Richter, Teil II: 'Lulu' / 'Reigen' / 'Tropic of Cancer' / 'Josefine Mutzenbacher' (Literature in the court of justice, part II, lecture in 'European literature', winter semester 2003/04)
• Literatur vor dem Richter, Teil I: 'Lucinde' / 'Les Fleurs du Mal'/ 'Emma Bovary' (Literature in the court of justice, part I, lecture in 'European literature', summer semester 2003)
• Decadence in Europa (Decadence in Europe, winter semester 2002/03)
• Europaeische Romantik (European romanticism, summer semester 2002)
• Europaeische Architekturphantasien - in der Literatur, in der Malerei (Fantastic architectures in literature and painting, winter semester 2001/02)

UNIVERSITY OF PISA, Italy (4/2003 - 6/2006)

• L'arte e la guerra: Marinetti, Juenger, Celine, Hartlaub, et al. (Arts and War, seminar in 'European languages and literatures' / 'Lingue e letterature moderne europee', academic year 2004/05)
• Poesie d'amore - da Sappho a Benn (Love poetry, seminar in 'European languages and literatures' / 'Lingue e letterature moderne europee', academic year 2003/04)

UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, Italy (4/2000 - 2/2001)

• Estetica: letteratura / pittura / film (Theory of aesthetics: literature, painting, film, seminar for students of 'European literature', academic year 2001/02)
• La visione della antica bellezza - da Piranesi a Nietzsche (Images of antique beauty: from Piranesi to Nietzsche, seminar for students of 'European literature', academic year 2000/01)

UNIVERSITY OF PISA, Italy (4/1998 - 2/1999)

• Il futurismo e i suoi effetti artistici: espressionismo, dadaismo, surrealismo (Futurism's influence on the avantgarde movement: expressionism, dadaism, surrealism, seminar for students of 'European literature', winter semester 1998/99)
• Teoria e invenzione futurista (Theory and inventiion of futurism, Seminar for students of 'European literature', summer semester 1998)

UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN, Germany (4/1996 - 2/2000)

• Literatur im Film: 'Der Prozess' / 'Apocalypse Now' / 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (Literature and film, winter semester 1999/00)
• Horkheimer/Adorno: Dialektik der Aufklaerung (Horkheimer's and Adorno's Dialectics of the Enlightenment, winter semester 1999/00)
• Architektur und Literatur: von Marino bis Kafka (Architecture and Literature: from Marino to Kafka, lecture, summer semester 1999)
• Griechenbild und Griechenideal in der europaeischen Kunsttheorie (The vision of Greek beauty in European aesthetics, lecture, summer semester 1999)
• Die Sade-Rezeption in der europaeischen Literatur (Sade's influence on European Literature, winter semester 1997/98)
• Briefromane des 18. Jahrhunderts: Richardson, Rousseau, Goethe (Eighteenth century epistolary novels: Richardson, Rousseau, Goethe, winter semester 1997/98)
• Stefan Georges 'Algabal' und die Tradition der kuenstlichen Paradiese (Stefan George's 'Algabal' and the tradition of the 'artificial paradise', summer semester 1997)
• Schauerromane - von E.T.A. Hoffmann bis Bram Stoker (The gothic novel - E.T.A. Hoffmann to Bram Stoker, summer semester 1997)
• Streit um's Haessliche in der Literatur (The debate about an aesthetics of the ugly, winter semester 1996/97)
• Grundkurs fuer Studienanfaenger der Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (Basic course for students of General and Comparative Literature, summer semester 1996)

Publications

Publications (publications before April 2002 bear author's name 'Sabine Kleine')

MONOGRAPHS

• The History of the Artificial Human: Androids / Cyborgs / Replicants (work in progress, to be published in 2009)
• Moderner Manierismus in Literatur / Film / bildender Kunst (Modern mannerism in literature / film / and the fine arts). Peter Lang : Frankfurt, Bern, New York, January 2005. 400 pp. (Extended version of Habilitation thesis. Inquiry in aesthetic knowledge; explores fantastic architectures in literature (from English Romanticism to 'Nouveau Roman'), painting (esp. Italian renaissance and mannerism, in Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Caspar David Friedrich, and William Turner), architecture (from Andrea Palladio to Antonio Gaudi), and film (esp. of the German expressionism, i.e. 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari', 'Golem') and Resnais' L'annee derniere a Marienbad). - Rezension (Book review): Silvio Vietta in: Romanische Forschungen 5, 2007.) English version ('Modern Mannerism. Literature, Film, & the Fine Arts') upcoming - spring 2009.
• Zur Aesthetik des Haesslichen (Aesthetics of the Ugly). Stuttgart : Metzler 1st edition: 1998 / 2nd edition: 2000. 267 pp. (Doctoral thesis in the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Essen, Germany. Explores the aesthetics of ugliness, drugs, madness and pain since the French Revolution. Main chapters on German romanticism and Hegel, Sade, Poe, Baudelaire, Klossowski, Bataille - with glances at the ugly in film, esp. Pasolini.)

EDITOR OF

• Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur oder: Wie wurden oder machten sich Schwindler, Spione, Kolonialisten oder Militaers zu grossen Gestalten der europaeischen Literatur? (Adventurers in literature). Ed. by Horst Albert Glaser und Sabine Kleine-Rossbach. Tagungsbd. zum internationalen Forschungscolloquium, 16. - 19. Febr. 2000. Stuttgart : Metzler April 2002. 306 pp.
• Sade und ... Essais von Horst Albert Glaser aus dreissig Jahren (Sade and ... Essais of Horst Albert Glaser). Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und mit Beitraegen von Michel Delon und Sabine Kleine. Stuttgart : Metzler 2000. 221 pp.

ARTICLES

• Alma, die Muse (Alma, the Muse, to be published in "Seminar", 2010)
• Vergiss' es! Ueber Gedaechtnisluecken & Literatur (Memory Lapses in Literature, to be published in "Limbo", 2010)
• From Alchemist to Stockbroker: John Law & the Modern Economy (to be published in an almanach by the California State University in Los Angeles, 2009)
• Biblical Beheadings: The Myths of Judith & Salome (to be published in an almanach by the California State University in Los Angeles, 2009)
• Cyborgs & Their Predecessors (to be published in "Fulgor" 2009)
• Androids: A Chapter in the History of the Artificial Human (to be published in AULLA 2009 Proceedings) 
• Surreal Encounters: Diego Rivera meets Cortes, Trotsky and Breton in Mexico City. In: AULLA 2007 Proceedings (http://www.aulla.com.au/Proceedings202007.html).
• German Romanticism: Mirroring, abymization, potentiation (involution). In: Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle (Ed.s): Romantic Prose Fiction. Amsterdam : Benjamins 2007. (=Histoire comparee de Litteratures et de Langues europeennes sous les Auspices de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee / A comparative History of Literatures in European Languages sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association. Vol 15.) p. 427 - 467.
• Die Luft ist raus! Zur Poetik neu-deutscher Casualcarmina (Lyrics, deflated. Some remarks on postmodern occasional poetry). In: Gert Reifarth (Ed.): Das Innerste von Aussen. Zur deutschsprachigen Lyrik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Wuerzburg, Nov. 2007. p. 219-230.
• Vom Goldmacher zum Boersenspekulanten: Faust und die moderne Oekonomie (From Alchemist to Stockbroker: Goethe's 'Faust' and the Modern Economy). In: Geld & Kapital. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft fuer mitteleuropaeische Banken- und Sparkassengeschichte 10 (2007). p. 47-56.
• L'ecriture de la douleur: reflexions a propos 'In der Strafkolonie' de Franz Kafka (On pain and writing: reflections on Franz Kafka's 'In der Strafkolonie'.). In: Claude Foucart, Angels Santa (Ed.s): La douleur: beaute ou laideur? Lleida: Departement francais de l´Universite de Lleida (Spanien) 2005. p. 113-136.
• Lust am Koepfen: Die Decapitationsmythen von Judith und Salome in Literatur und Malerei (Biblical beheadings: the myths of Judith and Salome in literature and painting). In: Monika Schmitz-Emans, Uwe Lindemann (Ed.s): Komparatistik als Arbeit am Mythos. Referate der XII. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fü uer Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft vom 22. - 25. Mai 2003 in Jena. Heidelberg : Synchron 2004. S. 211 - 221.
• L'architettura della tana. Considerazioni sul racconto imcompiuto di Kafka. In: Studi tedeschi 46 (2003) 445 - 463.
• Todes-Lieben: bei Thomas Mann, Oscar Wilde, Gabriele D'Annunzio und anderen (On love and death in literature : Thomas Mann / Oscar Wilde / Gabriele D'Annunzio). In: Dorothea Lauterbach, Uwe Spoerl (Ed.s): Grenzsituationen. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 2002. p. 219-234.
• Larven, Rollen, Staffagen: Goethe, Schiller und andere ueber Cagliostro (Masks, roles, stages: Goethe, Schiller et al. on Cagliostro. In: Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur oder: Wie wurden oder machten sich Schwindler, Spione, Kolonialisten oder Militaers zu grossen Gestalten der europaeischen Literatur? Ed. by Horst Albert Glaser und Sabine Kleine-Rossbach. Stuttgart : Metzler April 2002. p. 187-199.
• Der Abenteurer - als Typus betrachtet (The type of the adventurer). In: Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur oder: Wie wurden oder machten sich Schwindler, Spione, Kolonialisten oder Militaers zu grossen Gestalten der europaeischen Literatur? Ed.by Horst Albert Glaser und Sabine Kleine-Rossbach. Stuttgart : Metzler April 2002. p. 1-12.
• Mimesis und Imagination (Mimesis and imagination). In: Horst Albert Glaser, Gyorgy M. Vajda (Ed.s): Die Wende von der Aufklaerung zur Romantik, 1760 - 1820. Epoche im Ueberblick. Amsterdam : Benjamins Februar 2002. (=Histoire comparee de Litteratures et de Langues europeennes sous les Auspices de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee / A comparative History of Literatures in European Languages sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association. Vol. 14.). p. 443-459.
• Aesthetik des Haesslichen (Aesthetics of the Ugly). In: Horst Albert Glaser, Gyorgy M. Vajda (Ed.s): Die Wende von der Aufklaerung zur Romantik, 1760 - 1820. Epoche im Ueberblick. Amsterdam : Benjamins Februar 2002. (=Histoire comparee de Litteratures et de Langues europeennes sous les Auspices de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee / A comparative History of Literatures in European Languages sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association. Vol. 14.). p. 411-431.
• Literaturkoerper - Filmkoerper (Body language - in literature and film). In: Peter Kuon (Ed.): Corpi / Koerper. Koerperlichkeit und Medialitaet im Werk von Pier Paolo Pasolini. Frankfurt a.M. u.a. : Lang 2001. 19 p.
• Waren die ersten Europaeer Abenteurer? - Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur vom 16. - 20. Jahrhundert (Early European adventurers). Conference report, European Interdisciplinary Conference, Bonn Science Center, 16. - 19. Februar 2000. In: Romanistische Zeitschrift fuer Literaturgeschichte 24 (2000) 239-241.
• Der Plan der obszoenen Aesthetik (Obscene aesthetics). In: Sade und ... Essais von Horst Albert Glaser aus dreissig Jahren (Sade and ... Essais of Horst Albert Glaser). Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und mit Beitraegen von Michel Delon und Sabine Kleine. Stuttgart : Metzler 2000. p. 1-12.
• www.sade.com. Sade und ... Essais von Horst Albert Glaser aus dreissig Jahren (Sade and ... Essais of Horst Albert Glaser). Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und mit Beitraegen von Michel Delon und Sabine Kleine. Stuttgart : Metzler 2000. p. 215-221.
• E.T.A. Hoffmann oder: Die Faelschung der romantischen Welt (On E.T.A. Hoffmann's falsified Romanticism). In: Prospero (4/1999) 73-86.
• Haessliche Traeume. Literarische Phantastik und das anti-aesthetische Projekt der Moderne (Dreams of the ugly. Fantastic literature and modern aesthetics). In: Neohelicon 26, 1 (1999) 32-57.
• 'Elixiere des Teufels': Notes on E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'Black Romanticism' and the Idealist Critical Response. In: AUMLA (1999) 27-44.
• Why the Fantastic is Conditioned by Madness: Some Observations on Black Romanticism. In: genre 19 (1998) 59-74.
• Der Rapport zwischen tierischem Magnetismus und Hypnotismus ('Rapport' in animal magnetism and hypnotism). In: Wuerzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen 13 (1995) 299-330.
• Die 'Mainauer Naturlehre' (The 'Mainauer Naturlehre'). In: Sudhoffs Archiv 79 (1995) 101-114.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Willi Hirdt: 'Manet und Zola' (2001), 'Bildwelt und Weltbild' (2002), 'Esther und Salome' (2003). In: Romanische Forschungen 117, 4 (2005) 531-532.

ON THE WEB

• Surreal Encounters: Diego Rivera meets Cortes, Trotsky and Breton in Mexico City. In: AULLA 2007 Proceedings (http://www.aulla.com.au/Proceedings%202007.html)
• The Human Automaton in Art History (Paper, delivered at the workshop 'The Artificial Human'.'EuroScience Open Forum 2004', Stockholm (Sweden), 25. - 28. Aug. 2004). (http://www.esof2004.org/pdf_ppt/session_material/rossbach.pdf)

INTERVIEWS

• Radio interview about the interdisciplinary European conference 'Waren die ersten Europaeer Abenteurer? - Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur vom 16. - 20. Jahrhundert' (Early European adventurers). Bonn Science Center, February 16-19, 2000. On air in 'SWR3', February 16, 2000.
• Radio interview on my new book Abenteurer als Helden der Literatur oder: Wie wurden oder machten sich Schwindler, Spione, Kolonialisten oder Militaers zu grossen Gestalten der europaeischen Literatur? (Adventurers in literature). Ed. by Horst Albert Glaser and Sabine Kleine-Rossbach. Stuttgart : Metzler April 2002. 306 S. On air in 'Deutschlandfunk', May 20, 2002.
• 'Wir muessen den Anschluss schaffen' (Interview with Johannes Schleuning, 'Saarbruecker Zeitung' Nr. 214, Sept. 14, 2004, p. D4).

CONFERENCES

COMING UP: 'Collective Creativity' in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fischer, University of New South Wales, and Prof. Dr. Klaus Scherpe, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany (location: Goethe-Institute, Sydney, July 2009)

ORGANISED BY MYSELF:

• The Artificial Human: Fear, Fiction and Fact. Workshop, 'EuroScience Open Forum 2004', Stockholm (Sweden), Aug. 25-28, 2004. Funded by the 'Stifterverband fuer die Deutsche Wissenschaft'. Keynote speakers in European Literature, Art, and New Media / Experimental Hematology/Oncology / Human Genetics / Orthopedics / Robotics and Embedded Systems.
• Interdisciplinary Euro-Conference Can the Adventurers be seen as the first Europeans in History? , Bonn (Germany), Febr. 16-19, 2000. Funded by the European Commission, the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the University of Essen. More than 40 speakers in the humanities (cultural studies, literature, history, sociology, etc.) from Europe, the U.S., Africa, Australia, and Russia
• Author's conference: 'Histoire comparee de Litteratures et de Langues europeennes sous les Auspices de l'Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee / A comparative History of Literatures in European Languages sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association': Vol. 14: Die Wende von der Aufklaerung zur Romantik, 1760 - 1820. Epoche im Ueberblick. Ed. by Horst Albert Glaser und Gyorgy M. Vajda. (Amsterdam : Benjamins 2002). Universita degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza (Italy), July 1-4, 1998. Funded by the Hungarian Academy, Rome. Invited guests were about 20 experts in European literature from Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, and the U.S.
• Author's conference: 'Deutsche Literatur - Eine Sozialgeschichte'. Vol. 10: 1945-2000. Ed. by Horst Albert Glaser (Bern, Stuttgart, Wien: Haupt 1997). University of Essen (Germany), Dec. 20-22, 1996. Invited guests were more than 40 experts in German literature from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

INVITATIONS

On Machines That Talk and Indeed Compose Very Creditable Sunday Sermons. 32nd Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, Oct 2-5, 2008

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

• Vergiss es. Ueber Gedaechtnisluecken und Literatur. (Forget It! Lapses of Memory & Literature). Conference of the German Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne, Sept. 26-29, 2007.

• The History of the Artificial Human: Fear, Fiction and Fact. 21 March 2007, School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Australia.

• Surreal Encounters: Diego Rivera meets Cortes, Trotsky & Breton in Mexico City. AULLA Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Febr. 5-7, 2007.

• Schuld und Scham. (On Guilt and Shame). International convention in Bremen, Germany, May 5-7, 2006.

• Romanistentag (Convention of German scientists in the field of Romanic and Hispanic languages & literatures), University of the Saarland, Germany, Sept. 2005.

• Literatur und Phantasie (Literature and Fantasy). Conference paper, 'Visual Culture / Visualitaet', German Society for General and Comparative Literature Convention, Univerity of Potsdam, May 18-22, 2005.

• Architetture liquide (Floating Architectures). Round table, 'La Biennale di Venezia - 9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura' in Venice, Sept. 12 - Nov. 7, 2004.

• From Alchemist to Stockbroker: Goethe's 'Faust' and the Modern Economy. Conference paper, 'Charlatanism and the Age of Reason', conference of Monash-University (Australia) in Prato, Sept. 27-29, 2004.

• The Bologna Process in Italy, 2001 - 2004: Trieste's and Pisa's New BA and MA courses in 'European Cultural Studies' and 'European & American Literature'. Workshop, 'Deutscher Germanistentag', Muenchen (Germany), Sept. 12-15, 2004.

• The Human Automaton in Art History, 14th-20th century. Conference paper, Workshop 'The Artificial Human: Fear, Fiction and Fact'. 'Euro Science Open Forum 2004', Stockholm (Sweden), Aug. 25-28, 2004.

• Interkulturalitaet - anhand von Diego Riveras 'murales' im Nationalpalast von Mexico City (Intercultural studies - Diego Rivera's 'murales' in Mexico City's National Palace). 'Antritts-Vorlesung' in the presence of the Mexican Ambassador to Germany, University of the Saarland, June 7, 2004.

• Lust am Koepfen: Caravaggios 'Judith', die 'Enthauptung Johannes des Taeufers' und seine Wirkung in Malerei und Literatur (Biblical beheadings: Caravaggio's 'Judith', 'Decapitation of John the Baptist': reception in painting and literature). Conference paper, 'German Society for General and Comparative Literature Convention', Jena (Germany), Mai 22 - 25, 2002.

• Libertinage und 'schoener Schein': der junge Schiller zwischen Materialismus und Idealismus (Libertinism and aesthetics - young Schiller between materialism and idealism). Conference paper, 'Libertine Enlightenment Conference', University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), September 21 - 22, 2001.

• Todes-Lieben: bei Oscar Wilde, Gabriele D'Annunzio und Thomas Mann (On love and death in literature). Conference paper, 'Hagen Colloquy on Philology', Hagen (Germany), October 13 - 15, 2000.

• Romantic Prose Fiction: Mirroring / Abymization / Potentiation. Conference paper, 'XVIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association', Pretoria (South Africa), August 13 - 19, 2000.

• Der Typus des Abenteurers, 1600 - 1900 (The type of the adventurer, 1600 - 1900). Conference paper, 'European interdisciplinary conference', University of Essen / Bonn Science Center (Germany), February 16 - 19, 2000.

• E.T.A. Hoffmann - author of 'Schwester Monika'? Some remarks on Sade's influence on German literature. Conference paper, 'Xth International Congress on the Enlightenment', Dublin (Ireland), July 25 - 31, 1999.

• Jean Paul's imaginary voyages into the 'terra incognita'. Conference paper, 'XXXth Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association' in Auckland (New Zealand) February 8-11, 1999.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009