Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer

On May 14th, 1925, Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway, a modernist novel that continues to captivate readers 100 years later. Set over the course of a single day in post-war London, the novel explores time, memory, identity, and trauma. A century on, Mrs. Dalloway remains as relevant to the individual experience as ever. To read more, see this month's Discover Literary Anniversaries contribution on the Connotations website.

This February marks the anniversary of the meeting between Robert Louis Stevenson and William Ernest Henley at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1875, a pivotal moment that sparked their literary collaboration. To read more about that encounter and how it later inspired Stevenson's iconic character of Long John Silver in Treasure Island, check out Laurie Atkinson’s contribution on the Connotations website.

For Amanda B. Vernon the 200th birthday of the Scottish writer, theologian and literary scholar George MacDonald (1824-1905) is an invitation to reflect on old age and childlikeness. If you would like to read (and hear) how MacDonald combined these opposites, visit the Connotations website.

Our department's yearly advent calendar will return to the Connotations website with the theme “Festive Music”. If you enjoy reading literary texts aloud and would like to be featured in our calendar, you can submit a recording to capucine-marie.blancspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de by November 24th. Select your own excerpt on this topic from your favourite piece or ask the team for suggestions! For further information, you can download the flyer.

Project C5 “The Aesthetics of Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature” reconstructs an aesthetics of collaborative authorship in early modern English literature that is ‘different’ from concepts influenced by ideas of the author as an individual genius. In the context of our workshop, we would like to integrate a temporal dimension in our analysis of co-creative production processes. When early modern playwrights use sources and revise them in their own textual artefacts, these are not merely instances of intertextuality and imitation; the making of these texts reveals the various stages in their production and the agents involved in them. By moving away from the notion of imitatio towards a shared inventio, we hope and expect to learn more about the aesthetics of co-creativity in early modern English literature.

Further details you can find in our flyer. This workshop will be hybrid. To sign up, either in person or through Zoom, please contact our project.

E.M. Foster’s best-known novel A Passage to India is turning one hundred years old this year. Francesca Pierini helps us to explore this literary anniversary by offering a rereading of the trial scene, foregrounding colonial Britain’s perception of India. Find out more here on our Connotations website.

For almost ten years, a rich and productive disciplinary exchange within the field of English literature has existed between the Universities of Strasbourg (France) and Tübingen. Since 2021, an annual colloquium has been added to the spectrum of collaborative efforts between the two universities that is open to MA and PhD students. The Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse has recently joined the programme and will participate in this summer's colloquium for the first time. In June, four doctoral students from France will present their work in a one-day colloquium at Tübingen, joined by two doctoral students from Tübingen. They will be accompanied by their supervisors and spend the day with academic discussion and critical debate.

For more information, refer to this flyer.