Dr. Jochen Bedenk
Vita
05/2007-04/2009 Coordinator of National and International Cooperations, Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” in Konstanz
09/2004 - 06/2007 Adjunct Lecturer in German Language and Literature as Representative of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
09/2003 - 08/2004 Formal Training (Referendariat) as State-Certified Teacher, Secondary Schools (Gymnasien) in Munich
09/1999 - 02/2004 Doctoral studies with Prof. Gerhard Neumann at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in the Department of Modern German Literary Studies
09/1993 - 08/1999 University studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, History, and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, the University of Pisa (Italy) and the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg
09/1983 – 06/1992 School studies at the Egbert-Gymnasium of the Benedictine Abbey of Münsterschwarzach and the Glenstal Abbey School, Co. Limerick (Ireland)
Research Areas
Aesthetics of the 18th Century, Franz Kafka, Textual-visual relations, William Hogarth
Function within the Center
Coordinator of National and International Cooperations
about the Cooperations
Selected Publications
Verwicklungen. William Hogarth und die deutsche Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts (Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Jean Paul). Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2004.
Mythen des Nichts. William Hogarth und Jean Paul, in: Rüdiger Görner, Angus Nichols (Hgg.): Anglo-German Mythologies. Tagungsband zur Konferenz. (erscheint voraus. 2008)
Fighting for Truth. Heinrich von Kleist´s „Baxer“-Anecdote, in: Florian Kropp (Hg.): Prose Pieces: Irish Germanists interpret German Anecdotes and other Short Narratives. Oxford: Peter Lang 2007.
Zwischen Paraphe und Photographie. Zu Franz Kafkas Unterschrift. Vortrag zur Tagung „Schrift unter Schrift. Zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der Signatur)“, in: Armin Schäfer, Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (Hgg.): Schrift unter Schrift. Zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der Signatur. Oxford: Peter Lang 2007.
Intricacies – Aesthetic Transgressions in William Hogarth’s „The Bathos“ and Jean Paul’s „Speech of the Dead Christ from Universe Saying There is No God“, Vortrag gehalten auf der Konferenz “Borders and Margins - (Re)defining Space and Place in European Literary and Cultural Discourses”, Galway am 17. Januar 2005).
Various articles in the „Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur“ (München: Nymphenburg 1996), z.B. über Thomas Hettche.
Various articles in the journal „Literatur in Bayern“, z.B. „Ich bin sehr beschäftigt...“ – Nachruf auf Wolfgang Koeppen in: LiB 44 (1996), S. 56-57