Gerhard Lauer

Gerhard Lauer
Born (1962 -11-14) November 14, 1962
Karlsruhe, Germany
Alma mater University of Munich
Occupation Academic
Literary scholar
Professor of Modern German Literature at University of Göttingen
Website gerhardlauer.de
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Gerhard Lauer (born November 14, 1962) is a German Literary scholar. He is currently Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Göttingen.[1] He has worked on literary history, digital humanities[2] and cognitive poetics.[3] He is known for his social cognitive approach in literary studies.[4]

Lauer initially studied literary studies, philosophy and musicology at the Saarland University and University of Tübingen, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Munich. He then trained in German studies and Jewish studies. He went on to complete his Doctor of Philosophy in 1992 on the history of scholarship in exile, with Wolfgang Frühwald as his doctoral supervisor. In 2000 he defended his habilitation on the rise of the Haskalah.

In 2002 he succeeded Albrecht Schöne and Wilfried Barner as chair of Modern German Literature. Professor Lauer is a fellow of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[5] was distinguished Max Kade visiting professor at the Washington University in St. Louis,[6] senior research fellow at the Institut of Advances Studies/St Mary's College, Durham University,[7] and is a cofounding editor of the Journal of Literary Theory.

Works

References

  1. "Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures". University of Göttingen.
  2. "Burrows's Delta and its Use in German Literary History". Distant Readings. JSTOR 10.7722/j.ctt5vj848.
  3. "Neuroaesthetics". Neuroaesthetics and Cognitive Poetics 2014.
  4. "Was ist Neurogermanistik? (What is neuroscientific German study?)". Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (25.11.2007), p. 80.
  5. "Academy of Sciences Entry". Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  6. "University Website Entry". Washington University in St. Louis.
  7. "IAS Entry". Institute of Advanced Study.
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