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Elisabeth Bronfen

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen

Ord. Professorin für Englische und Amerikanische Literatur
 
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 Elisabeth Bronfen did her first degree at Harvard University, concentrating in English and German Literature. She then did her PhD at the University of Munich, on the notion of literary space in the work of Dorothy M. Richardson, and her habilitation five years later at the University of Munich as well, on the aesthetic representation of death and gender. A specialist in the 19th and 20th century literature she has also written articles in the area of gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and art. Her current research areas are Shakespeare comedies, cultural configurations of the night, the European-American dialogue in postwar culture, the interrelation between literary and visual culture.
 
Bibliography 
 Over Her Dead Body. Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic. Manchester University Press/Routledge, 1992.

The Knotted Subject. Hysteria and its Discontents. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Sylvia Plath. In the series Writers and their Work. London: Northcote Press/ British Council, 1998 .

Heimweh Illusionsspiel in Hollywood. Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1999.

Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory. Space, Identity, Text. Manchester University Press, 1999.

Four Volumes of poetry and letters by Anne Sexton for S. Fischer Verlag.