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Eike Kronshage, M.A.

Eike Kronshage is currently a doctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Free University, Berlin). He is working on a thesis on "Physiognomic Discourse in the English Realist Novel". Special focus of his work: The novels of George Eliot and Charlotte Brontë.

Education

Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
Berlin, Germany (10/2010- present)

Doctoral Researcher at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Free University Berlin

Cambridge University
Cambridge, England (04/2012-07/2012)

Research period: Faculty of English

Free University
Berlin, Germany (10/2004-08/2008)

M.A.: Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature
Topic of master thesis: "Sexual violence in J.M.Coetzee's Disgrace" (2007)

Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA (09/2007-05/2008)

Exchange student at the Department of Comparative Literature.
Teaching assistant at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Danmark (08/2003-04/2004)

Major: Comparative Literature
ERASMUS-exchange program.

Ludwig-Maximilians University
Munich, Germany (10/2001-05/2004)

B.A.: Comparative Literature

Publications
Conference Papers
  • 30.07.2013: "George Eliot's Poetic Epigraphs in Daniel Deronda."
    12th International Connotations Symposium: Poetry in Fiction, Mühlheim an der Ruhr.

  • 19.10.2012: "'More in countenance than language.' Physiognomical Language in Foreign Cultural Surroundings in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette."
    International Symposium for Doctoral Students: A Culture of Language, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

  • 07.07.2013: "(Sur)Face. Physiognomics in Mid-Victorian Realism."
    Graduate Workshop: Surface Reading? What We Do to Texts and Other Media, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.

Teaching Experience

Charles Dickens and London Undergraduate Course, Fall 2012

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
KVV WiSe 2012/13


Mid-Victorian Realism Undergraduate Course, Fall 2011

Institute for English Language and Literature, Free University Berlin
KVV WiSe 2011/12


German for Reading Undergraduate Course, Spring 2008

German Department, Yale University

Languages spoken
German: mother tongue
English: fluent
Danish: fluent
French: conversant
Latin: qualification in Latin (6 years at school)
References
Available on request
Contact
ekron@zedat.fu-berlin.de