Dr. Eike Kronshage (he, him)
Eike Kronshage (he, him) (pronunciation of my name).
After spending many years as an assistant professor at the Chair of English Literature at Chemnitz University of Technology, he has transitioned to a new role as a high school teacher. With a background in academia, he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching. Despite facing new challenges, he is excited to share his passion for literature with his students and help them develop their own love for learning.
His educational background includes an MA in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the Free University Berlin (2008), a PhD in English Studies from the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Free University Berlin (2014), and a Master of Education in English and Ethics from the Humboldt University of Berlin (2021). With his extensive academic training and expertise, he is equipped to provide his students with a comprehensive and engaging learning experience.
In addition to this, he has also studied English and Comparative Literature at renowned institutions such as Yale University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Copenhagen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität Berlin. He received his PhD from the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies as part of the prestigious German Excellence Initiative program. His diverse educational experiences have enriched his understanding of language, literature, and culture, and he is excited to share this knowledge with his students.
He is also a published author, with his monograph Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel being released by Routledge in 2018, and edited volumes on different topics being published by, among others, De Gruyter and Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
You can stay updated with Eike's work by following him on academia.edu or on Twitter. Additionally, he enjoys writing more casually on his blogs, where he shares his thoughts on literature at literaturen.net, and provides insights into the films of Alfred Hitchcock at hitchcock22.blogspot.com. These platforms allow him to engage with a wider audience and share his love of literature and film with others.
- Education and Professional Career
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Robert-Koch-Gymnasium,
Berlin, Germany (since 02/2023)Teacher: English and Ethics/Philosophy
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Chemnitz University of Technology,
Chemnitz, Germany (10/2014-01/2023)Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
at the Chair of English Literatures -
Dahlem Research School (DRS)
Free University Berlin, Germany (05/2014-09/2014)Postdoc Fellow (DRS HONORS) at the DRS, Free University Berlin
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Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
Berlin, Germany (10/2010-01/2014)Doctoral Researcher at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Free University Berlin
PhD thesis (2013): Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel -
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany (10/2018-09/2021)Master of Education (Lehramtsmaster) in English and Philosophy (Ethics).
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Dahlem School of Education (DSE)
Free University Berlin, Germany (10/2016-04/2018)Bachelor of Education (Lehramtsbachelor) in English and Philosophy (Ethics).
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England (04/2012-07/2012)Visiting researcher: Faculty of English
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Free University
Berlin, Germany (10/2004-08/2008)M.A.: Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature
Topic of master thesis: "Sexual violence in J.M.Coetzee's Disgrace" (2007) -
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA (09/2007-05/2008)Doctoral researcher at the Department of Comparative Literature.
Teaching assistant at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. -
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Danmark (08/2003-04/2004)Major: Comparative Literature
ERASMUS-exchange program. -
Ludwig-Maximilians University
Munich, Germany (10/2001-05/2004)B.A.: Comparative Literature
- Publications
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Monographs:
- Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel. New York: Routledge, 2017.
- Crisis, Risks, and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017.
- [Review in Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 29.2 (2018), 170-171.]
- [Review in Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 29.2 (2018), 170-171.]
- Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. De Gruyter, 2016.
- Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015.
in preparation / forthcoming:- "Seeing the Economy in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors." (in preparation)
- "Lavater's Physiognomics and Feuerbach's Concept of Projection in George Eliot's Middlemarch." Crossing the Channel: British-German Historical and Cultural Dialogues.. Ed. Rudolf Boch, Marian Nebelin, and Cecile Sandten. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2022 (Prinz Albert Research Publications 2): 49-72.
- "The Garden of Iden: Bourgeoise Ideology and Rebellion in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI." Protest. Forms, Dynamics, Functions. Ed. Mandy Beck, Cecile Sandten, and Daniel Ziesche. Trier: WVT, 2021: 163-176.
- "Physiognomic Flânerie in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent." Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk and Show. Ed. Sibylle Baumbach and Ulla Ratheiser. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2021.
- "Nah, fern, skalierbar: Die Politik des Lesens von Kanon und Quisquilie." SPRACHKUNST. Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft 50.1 (2019): 95-113. (PDF)
- "Weimar Wallace: Three German Screen Adaptations of Novels by Edgar Wallace (1931-34)." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture 67.4 (2019): 1-17. (PDF)
- "'Purchased honour': Economic Expediency in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi." John Webster's 'Dismal Tragedy', The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered. Ed. Sophie Chiari and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2019, 103-120. [TOC]
- "Reformation and Transformation: On Religion, Politics, and Economics in King John". Shakespeare Seminar Online 15 (2017; published 2019). (PDF)
- Review of David Hawkes's Shakespeare and Economic Theory. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25.2 (2018 [published 2019]): 213-216.
- Review of Martina Bross's Versions of Hamlet: Poetic Economy on Page and Stage. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 60 (2019): 405-408.
- "Parasitic Picaresque. R.S. Surtees's Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour." Das Enigma des Pikaresken/The Enigma of the Picaresque. Ed. Jens Elze. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018: 89-105.
- "Theorien des Nichtlesens." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Lesen. Ed. Alexander Honold and Rolf Parr. Boston: De Gruyter, 2018: 211-230. (PDF)
- "'Nothing Truer Than Physiognomy': Body Semiotics and Agency in Charles Dickens's 'Hunted Down' (1859)." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 48 (2017): 167-180. (PDF)
- "Conspicuous Consumption, Croyance, and the Problem of the Two Timons: Shakespeare and Middleton's Timon of Athens." Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 18:3 (2017): 262-274. [DOI]. (PDF)
- (with Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, and Roberto Pedretti): "Introduction." Crisis, Risks, New Regionalisms. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017: 11-23.
- "Lavaters physiognomische Apodemik in Reisebeschreibungen deutscher Englandreisender im späten achtzehnten Jahrhundert." Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 153-170. (PDF)
- (with Lore Knapp): "Einleitung". Britisch-deutscher Literaturtransfer 1756-1832. Ed. Lore Knapp and Eike Kronshage. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 1-20.
- "On the Scientific Status of Literary Physiognomics in Victorian Realism: The Novels of Charlotte Brontë." Physiognomisches Schreiben: Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik. Ed. Hans-Georg von Arburg, Elias Zimmermann, Benedikt Tremp. Freiburg: Rombach, 2016: 125-139.
- "Palimpsestic Layers: Urban Aesthetics and Social Criticism in Charles Dickens's 'Night Walks'." Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT, 2015: 79-92.
- (with Cecile Sandten and Winfried Thielmann): "Introduction." Palimpsestraum Stadt. Ed. Eike Kronshage, Cecile Sandten, and Winfried Thielmann. Trier: WVT, 2015: 1-11.
- "The Function of Poetic Epigraphs in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 23.2 (2014): 230-60. (PDF)
- "A Portrait of the Artist as a Translator. On James Joyce's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang." In: Yale Modernism Lab, New Haven, 2008.
- Interviewed by Deutschlandfunkkultur about Charles Dickens: "Der Charakter in einer Welt jenseits von Zeit. Die Lange Nacht über Charles Dickens", Saturday, 6 June 2020.
- Translation of: Bruno Latour: "On Actor-Network Theory: A Few Clarifications." Soziale Welt 47:4 (1996): 369-381.
"Über die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie. Einige Klarstellungen." Übers. v. Eike Kronshage. In: Lore Knapp (Ed.): Literarische Netzwerke im 18. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2019: 45-66. - Shakespeare's Sonnet 155 (mit Stefan Schukowski). Shakespeare Sonnet Generator. Auftragsarbeit von Prof. Erika Greber
Siehe auch: Greber, Erika. "Triskaidekaphobia? Sonettzahlen und Zahlensonette." Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren: Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur. Ed. Andrea Albrecht, Gesa von Essen und Werner Frick. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011. 214-247 (besonders 231-32). - Gesichter - Faces. 23.03.2010 - 25.03.2010, Berlin. Tagungsbericht. H-Soz-u-Kult, 17.04.2010.
- Farø, Ken: Universal-Wörterbuch Dänisch: dänisch-deutsch, deutsch-dänisch. Vollständige Neubearbeitung von Eike Kronshage und Kerstin Klingelhöffer. Langenscheidt KG, München, 2005.
- Fellowships and Funding
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- 2020: TU Chemnitz Printing Expenses (Forschungspauschalenbudget)
- 2018: DAAD Traveling Grant
- 2016: DFG Printing Expenses
- 2014: DRS Honors: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Excellence Initiative)
- 2010-2014: DFG: PhD-Scholarship (Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation)
- 2003-2004: Erasmus Scholarship
- Conference Papers and Invited Talks
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- Sep. 2021: "'[N]o trace to leave behind.' Vertical and Horizontal Financial Transmission as Dickens's Critique of Industrial Capitalism in Dombey and Son."
15th ESSE Conference (European Society for the Study of English), Lyon, France (virtual conference due to COVID-19). - Jul. 2021: "The Dialectics of Money in Barnaby Rudge."
26th Annual Dickens Society Symposium, Rochester, NY, USA (virtual conference due to COVID-19). - Jan. 2020: "Weimar, Wallace, Westdeutschland."
Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Dresden e.V., in cooperation with the Chair of English Literary Studies, University of Technology Dresden, Dresden, Germany. [see Poster] - May 2019: Keynote lecture: "'A keen eye for physiognomy': Lavaters Physiognomik im realistischen englischen Roman George Eliots":
Britisch-Deutsche Wissenschaftsgeschichte(n). University of Technology Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany. - Dec. 2018: "'Purchased honour': Economic Expediency in The Duchess of Malfi":
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered. École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France. - Sep. 2018: "'Red-hot applications on their vile skins.' Ironic Transparency in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent":
Anglistentag 2018, Panel: Victorian Surfaces: Skin, Silk, and Show in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Bonn, Germany. - Jul. 2018: "You would call that lad a degenerate?" Measuring Intellectual (Dis)Ability Through Phrenology in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
Literature, Education and the Sciences of the Mind in Britain and America, 1850-1950. Canterbury, Kent, England. - Jul. 2018: "Speaking Faces? Dickens's Critique of Physiognomics":
The 23rd Annual Dickens Symposium: Dickens and Language, Tübingen, Germany. - Jun. 2017: "Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice":
Vortrag mit Studierenden vor der Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft Chemnitz e.V., Chemnitz, Germany. - Apr. 2017: "'Kings break faith upon commodity': Religious Crisis and Economic Transformation in King John":
Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Shakespeare and Reformation, Weimar, Germany. - Jul. 2016: "Genre City: London and the Early Modern City Comedy.":
Ringvorlesung Die Stadt, Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz. - Jul. 2016: "Theorien des Nichtlesens":
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA 2016), Vienna, Austria. - Mar. 2016: "The Postcolonial Car: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger."
Workshop at the Technische Universität Chemnitz. - Nov. 2015: "Leitung der Lehrerfortbildung (mit Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten):
Englischsprachige Kurzdramen im EFL-Classroom"
University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany. - Nov. 2015: "Kommunikation und Körpersemiotik."
Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany. - Sep. 2015: "Zur Objektivität physiognomischer Porträts im literarischen Realismus."
Internationale Tagung: Physiognomisches Schreiben: Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. - Jul. 2015: "Closure, Open Endings, and Poetic Justice."
13th International Connotations Symposium: Poetic Justice: Legal, Ethical, and Aesthetic Judgments in Literary Texts, University of Tübingen, Germany. - Jun. 2015: "'Better to be cruel': Inhumanity in Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure (1895)."
Vortrag vor der Deutsch-Britischen Gesellschaft Chemnitz e.V., Chemnitz, Germany. - Jun. 2015: "Kirche und Recht in Anthony Trollopes Septimus Harding, Spitalvorsteher (The Warden, 1855)."
Ringvorlesung "Viktorianische Jubiläen", Technische Universität Chemnitz, Ort: Buchhandlung Universitas Chemnitz. - Dec. 2014: "Crisis of the Humanities: The First 150 Years."
Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe, University of Milan, Italy. - Nov. 2014: "Physiognomisches Verstehen, physiognomische Verständigung. Über die Persistenz historischer Körpersemiotiken"
Ringvorlesung Interkulturelle Kommunikation, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany. - Apr. 2014: "'Feast-won, fast-lost': Mock banquets in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens"
Conference of the German Shakespeare-Society: Celebrating Shakespeare, Weimar, Germany - Jul. 2013: "George Eliot's Poetic Epigraphs in Daniel Deronda."
12th International Connotations Symposium: Poetry in Fiction, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. - Oct. 2012: "'More in countenance than language.' Physiognomic Language in Foreign Cultural Surroundings in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette."
International Symposium for Doctoral Students: A Culture of Language, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. - Jul. 2012: "(Sur)Face. Physiognomics in Mid-Victorian Realism."
Graduate Workshop: Surface Reading? What We Do to Texts and Other Media, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.
- Sep. 2021: "'[N]o trace to leave behind.' Vertical and Horizontal Financial Transmission as Dickens's Critique of Industrial Capitalism in Dombey and Son."
- Teaching
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History of Literatures in English:
Reading the Canon and BeyondLecture, Fall 2022.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Alfred Hitchcock:
From Realism to PostmodernismUndergraduate Course, Spring 2022.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Shakespeare's ComediesUndergraduate Course, Fall 2021.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Theories and MethodsUndergraduate Course,
Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description 2017 (PDF) and
Course description 2018 (PDF) and
Course description 2019 (PDF) and
Course description 2020 (PDF).
Course description 2021 (PDF)
Course description 2022 (PDF)
Peforming the Economy
in Early Modern EnglandUndergraduate Course, Spring 2021.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
The Industrial NovelGraduate Course, Fall 2020.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description.
Dickens and London Undergraduate Course, Fall 2020.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description.
Culture vs. CanonUndergraduate Course, Fall 2020.
Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description.
The Verbal and the Visual
Description and EkphrasisGraduate Course, Fall 2020.Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description.
Ekphrastic Encounters Graduate Course, Spring 2020.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description 2020 (PDF).
Beyond Shakespeare Graduate Course, Fall 2019.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Encountering the Other
in Shakespeare Graduate Course, Fall 2019.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Imperial Adventure Fiction Undergraduate Course, Spring 2019.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF).
J.M. Coetzee and Postcolonial ViolenceGraduate Course, Fall 2018.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF).
Shakespeare's Roman Plays Undergraduate Course, Fall 2018.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF).
Marx and Shakespeare Undergraduate Course, Spring 2018.
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
Revenge Tragedies
in Early Modern England
Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare,
and Webster Graduate Course, Spring 2017.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
The Novels of
Jane AustenUndergraduate Course, Spring 2017.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
Shakespeare's Tragedies:
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,Lecture, Fall 2016.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description
The British Espionage Novel
in the Early Twentieth Century:
Buchan, Maugham, and Conrad Undergraduate Course, Fall 2016.Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
Organizer of the five-year lecture series:
"Viktorianische Jubiläen"Spring 2015 - open-endedDepartment of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Press announcement
The Novels of the
Brontë Sisters Undergraduate Course, Spring 2016Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
Alfred Hitchcock: Narrative Cinema Undergraduate Course, Fall 2015
Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
Economy and Drama: Shakespeare,
Marlowe, Middleton, Massinger,
and Webster Graduate Course, Spring 2015Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description (PDF)
Literarische Nachahmung der Wirklichkeit:
Geschichte der Mimesis
(in German)Undergraduate Course, Spring 2015Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
Introduction to the Study of
Literatures in English Lecture, Fall 2014Department of English and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
Course description
Les(e)arten: Typologien des Lesens und ihr
Einfluss auf die Interpretation
(in German)Graduate Course, Fall 2014Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
The Making of the English
Literary CanonUndergraduate Course, Spring 2014Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
Introduction to Literary StudiesUndergraduate Course, Fall 2013
Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam
Course description.
Representation of Britishness
in Film and Fiction, 1910 -2010 Undergraduate Course, Fall 2013Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
Introduction to Literary StudiesUndergraduate Course, Fall 2013
Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
Joseph Conrad's Spy FictionUndergraduate Course, Fall 2013
Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
Charles Dickens and London Undergraduate Course, Fall 2012
Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
Mid-Victorian Realism:
George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
Course description
German for Reading Undergraduate Course, Spring 2008
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
- Memberships
- British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
- Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft e.V.
- European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
- Peter Szondi Institut: Alumni-Vereinigung e.V.
- Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
- Languages spoken
- German: first language
- English: fluent (CEFR: C2)
- Danish: fluent (CEFR: C2)
- French: conversant (CEFR: B1)
- Latin: qualification in Latin (6 years at school)
- References
- Available on request
- Contact
- ekron [at] zedat [dot] fu-berlin [dot] de