Prof Dr Dietmar Till

February/March 2019 Research stay at the Library of Congress, Washington DC/USA (archival research on the history of the Experimental Division for the Study of Wartime Communication).

2016 Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle/USA

since 1 October 2011 Chair of General Rhetoric, University of Tübingen

2011 Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/USA

2010/2011 Habilitation, University of Göttingen.

Venia legendi for ‘German Philology and Comparative Literature’

2008-2011 Head of the research project ‘Rhetoric of Empathy’, Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin

2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle/USA

2003-2008 Research Assistant, German Seminar, University of Tübingen

2002 Doctorate, University of Tübingen (‘summa cum laude’)

2000-2003 Research assistant, Institute for German Studies, University of Regensburg

2000 Research stay at the State and University Library of Lower Saxony, Göttingen

1998 and 1999 Scholarship holder of the Dr Günter Findel Foundation, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel

1997-2000 Scholarship holder, GK Pragmatisation/Depragmatisation, Tübingen

1997 Magister Artium, Tübingen (‘with honours’)

1991-1997 Studied general rhetoric, modern German literature and philosophy in Tübingen

Areas of research and work

• Rhetoric in History, Theory and Practice
• Propaganda research
• Theoretical history of Aesthetics and Poetics
• Literary and cultural history of the early modern period
• Narrative research (especially narrative and persuasion)
• Digital university teaching. (I would like to draw your attention to the position paper 8 Requirements for digital teaching, of which I was one of the first signatories).

Till, Dietmar (2020): Rhetorik. In Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig, Jörg Schuster, Gesa Steinbrink & Jochen Strobel (Hrsg.), Handbuch Brief. Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 1, 40–60. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

Till, Dietmar (2020): Sokratische Lehrart. Das gelungene Gespräch als pädagogische Kommunikationsform im 18. Jahrhundert. In Angela Schrott & Christoph Strosetzki (Hrsg.), Gelungene Gespräche als Praxis der Gemeinschaftsbildung. Literatur, Sprache, Gesellschaft (Historische Dialogforschung 5), 95–111. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

Till, Dietmar (2021): Klassenbewusstsein und Aufklärung:  Zur Funktion sozialistischer Rhetorik  bei Rosa Luxemburg. In: Frank Jacob, Albert Scharenberg & Jörn Schütrumpf (Hrsg.), Rosa Luxemburg, vol. 1, 249–272. Marburg: Büchner.Open Access)

Till, Dietmar (2022): The Reception and Transformation of Rhetoric in Germany during the Eighteenth-Century. In: Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim & Michael Edwards (Hrsg.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception 23), 52–74. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Till, Dietmar (2023): „Herrscherlob (Panegyrik)“. In: Nina Janich, Steffen Pappert, Kersten Sven Roth (Hg.): Handbuch Werberhetorik. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2023 (= Handbücher Rhetorik 12), S. 415–438.

Till, Dietmar (2023): Jenseits der Persuasion. Alternativen zum klassischen Modell. In: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf u. a. (Hg.): Rhetoriken zwischen Recht und Literatur: Interdisziplinäre und interkulturelle Zugänge. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2023 (= Literatur und Recht 9), S. 9–28. Open Acsess:  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66928-0_2 (Stand: 31.07.2023).

Anne Ulrich, Olaf Kramer, Dietmar Till: „Populism and the Rise of the AfD in Germany“. In: Christian Kock, Lisa Villadsen (Hg.): Populist Rhetorics: Case Studies and a Minimalist Definition. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2022 (= Rhetoric, Politics and Society), S. 107–139. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87351-6_5

Epideictics (Project A05 in CRC 1391, from 1 July 2023 in the second funding period)

Introduction to Rhetoric (book project, publishing contract with C.H. Beck, Munich)

The Cambridge History of Rhetoric (main editors Rita Copeland and Peter Mack). Vol. IV: 17th-19th century (ed. together with A. Potkay, College of the Queen and Mary, USA, approx. 800 pages, 45 chapters, forthcoming. 2024/2025).

Propaganda theories

since 2020 Elected member of the board of the SFB 1391 Other Aesthetics

since 2019 Member of the Editorial Board of ‘Rhetorica. A Journal of the History of Rhetoric’ (Berkeley: University of California Press)

since 2018 Member of the Administrative Advisory Board of the Württemberg State Theatre Tübingen (LTT)

since 2018 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy for the Spoken Word (Stuttgart)

since 2016 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy

2014-2016 Speaker of Department 5: Philosophy, Media, Rhetoric of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen

2014 and 2016 member of the Programme Committee of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Tübingen conference 2015 and again for the London conference 2017); 2018/19 member of the Prize Committee

since 2013 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Kairos Research Centre at University College Roosevelt, Middleburg/NL

Member of the Advisory Board of the Rhetoric Society of Europe since 2013

In the academic years 2012/13 and 2014/15 Managing Director of the Seminar for General Rhetoric

2007-2011 Member of the Council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)

since 2003 Responsible editor for the fields ‘Early Modernity’ and ‘Rhetoric at IASLOnline (reviews acquired so far: here)

Member of the German-French research group (ANR/DFG) ‘Aesthetics’ (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin/University of Göttingen)

Reviewer: e.g. for DFG, Thyssen, Herzog August Bibliothek, DAAD, all scholarship organisations, peer review for various international journals