Prof. Dr. Birgit Tautz

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGerman Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature),General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsGerman literary relations, late eighteenth-century drama/ theater, English-German literary relations, transatlantic history
Honours and awards

2025: Reinvitation Grant AvH Fellowship

2019: Kenshur Prize Short List for Translating the World

2019: SAMLA Book Studies Award )for Translating the World (=book supported by AvH Foundation)

2017: DAAD Conference Award (with Crystal Hall)

2017: Friends of AvH-Foundation Kolleg Award

2011: AvH Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBrunswick
InstitutionBowdoin College
InstituteDepartment of German

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Alexander KoseninaDeutsches Seminar, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
Prof. Dr. Mark-Georg DehrmannInstitut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2011

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2012Birgit Tautz: Michael Foucault trifft Yoko Tawada: Sprache und ethnologische Poetologie als Heterotopien. In: Hamid Tafazoli, Richard T. Gray, Außenraum - Mitraum - Innenraum. Aisthesis Verlag, 2012. 169-192