Dr. May Mergenthaler

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGerman Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature),General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
Keywordspoetry criticism, theory of the lyric, Environmental Humanities, figures and concepts of light, lyric, poetry
Honours and awards

2024: Course Release Fellowship, Ohio State University, Autumn semester 2024

2020: Humboldt‐Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Forschende, 2022-22, Universität Bonn

2020: Virginia Hull Award, Ohio State University

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityColumbus
InstitutionOhio State University
InstituteGermanic Languages and Literatures

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johannes F. LehmannInstitut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2020

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2021May Mergenthaler und Kassi Burnett: Fridays for Future zwischen Ökologie und Gerechtigkeit. In: Non Fiktion. Arsenal der anderen Gattungen. Themenheft 2020: Ökologie, hg. von Alexander Kling und Christian Meierhofer, 2021, 321-360
2021May Mergenthaler: Hölderlin's "Der Ister" and Ecology in Rochelle Tobias's "Untamed Earth". In: MLN (Modern Language Notes), 2021, 517–530
2021May Mergenthaler: “o heylsams Nichts": Zur Funktion des Lichts in Brockes’ Naturlyrik. In: Colloquia Germanica, special issue ed. by Carl Gelderloos and Harald Zils, 2021, 219-241