Ruediger Singer

Contact Me

singerr@umn.edu

Affiliations

• German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

Links

• Latest article: "Cute monsters and early birds: foreignness in graphic novels on migration by Shaun Tan and Paula Bulling". In Journal of Comics and Graphic Novels (2020) vol 11.1.
• Conference website "Migration in Comics" (Oct 4th-6th, 2018)
• Keynote speech "Migration in Comics": Julia Ludewig presents "Reporters with a Sketchbook"
• Roundtable VISUAL NARRATIVES ON MIGRATION part 1
• Roundtable VISUAL NARRATIVES ON MIGRATION part 2
• Habilitation thesis/second book (July 2018) with reading sample (click on "Leseprobe")
• "Show, don't tell": Conference proceedings - read the introduction!
• German Humor - Yes, it does exist!
• "The Art of Gallantry" - Google Books
• Dissertation thesis on Herder's concept of oral poetry - Google Books

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Habilitation/venia legendi: German and Comparative Literature, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, 2014.
• Ph.D. : German Literature, Technische Universität, Berlin, 2004.
• M.A.: German Literature, European History, Technische Universität, Berlin, 1998.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Word and image relations, with three current research projects: (1) “Ethno-Graphic Novels” (graphic novels on cultural encounters, with an emphasis on migration); (2) “Poetry Comics”; (3) “Caricature and Literature”.
• Oral poetry, lyric in performance
• European drama and theater with an emphasis on theories and practices of acting since the 17th century
• Rhetorical analysis of literature
• Verbal and visual humor

Courses Taught

• Graduate course “Enlightenment and Passion: THE AGE OF GOETHE (in German)
• Advanced undergraduate/Graduate course “Irony and Wanderlust: GERMAN ROMANTICISM” (in German)
• Graduate course “BIEDERMEIER AND REVOLUTION: German Literature 1818-1848” (in German)
• Graduate course “Observation and Irony: GERMAN REALISM" (in German)
• Advanced undergraduate course “More than Decadence: LiITERATURE AROUND 1900” (in German)
• Advanced undergraduate/graduate course "GERMAN FOOLS AND TRICKSTERS"
• Advanced undergraduate/graduate course "FUNNY FAIRY TALES"
• Undergraduate lecture course "THE GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES, Then and Now" (in English)
• Undergraduate course/workshop "German Play: POETRY IN MOTION" (in German)
• Undergraduate course "GERMAN COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS" (in German)
• Undergraduate course “CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN COMICS” (in German)
• Undergraduate course “GERMAN HUMOR” (in German)
• Undergraduate course "'TYPISCH DEUTSCH?' How Germans Perceive Themselves and (Think They) are Perceived by Others" (in German)
• Undergraduate course "GRANDCHILDREN OF WWII (Kriegsenkel)"

Research & Professional Activities

Research

• "Migration in Comics and Graphic Narratives", co-organized with the Center for German and European Studies, sponsored by Imagine Funds, the Department for German Scandinavian & Dutch, Center for German and European Studies, Immigration History Research Center, Center for Austrian Studies, Center for Jewish Studies (all University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), and the Goethe Institute Chicago: Scholarly Conference/Roundtable with Artists/A“THE U OF M igration PROJECT”, by Minnesotan artist Wing Young Huie, Oct. 5th, 2018 - Oct. 7th, 2018

Publications

• Habilitation thesis/second book: Mimen-Ekphrasis: Schauspielkunst in der Literatur um 1800 und um 1900 (Ekphrasis of Acting: Dramatic Art in Literature around 1800 and 1900). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Palaestra series 342), 2018. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/germanistik/neuere-deutsche-literaturwissenschaft/28500/mimen-ekphrasis?c=1776
• Editor with Tilmann Koeppe: "Show, don’t tell": Konzepte und Strategien anschaulichen Erzählens (Concepts and Strategies of Vivid Narration). Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2018. http://www.aisthesis.de/Koeppe-Singer-Show-dont-tell
• Editor with Ruth Florack: Die Kunst der Galanterie. Ein Verhaltenskonzept in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit (Galante counduite: An Ideal of Conduct in Early Modern Literature). Berlin/Tübingen: Max Niemeyer/De Gruyter, 2012. Reviewed by Christophe Losfeld in Monatshefte 106 (2014): 304-306.
• Dissertation: "Nachgesang": Ein Konzept Herders, entwickelt an 'Ossian', der 'popular ballad' und der frühen Kunstballade (Writing Oral Poetry: A Concept by Herder Inspired by the Poems of Ossian, English Popular Ballads, and Early German Literary Ballads). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. Reviewed by Wulf Koepke in Herder Yearbook 9 (2008): 209-2012.
• "O hätt’ ich seine Stimme: Lyrik und der implizite Rezitator" (O That I Had His Voice: Poetry and the Implicit Reciter). Phänomene des Performativen in der Lyrik. Systematische Entwürfe und historische Fallbeispiele, ed. by Anna Bers and Peer Trilcke, Wallstein, 2017, 215-243.
• "Intermediale Anschaulichkeit. 'Enargeia' als rhetorisches Wirkungsideal von Bild, Text und actio" (Intermedial Vividness. 'Energeia' as Rhetorical Ideal for the Impact of Word, Image and Oratorical Actio). Anschauen, Anschauung, Anschaulichkeit. Spielarten der Visualisierung im Lesen, Wahr-nehmen und Denken, ed. by Hans Adler and Sabine Gross. Paderborn: Finck, 2016, 157-178.
• "Charakter - Viech - Clown: Jüdische Politikverweigerer als Bühnenhelden in Arthur Schnitzlers Professor Bernhardi und Thomas Bernhards Heldenplatz." Felix Austria: Dekonstruktion eines Mythos? Das österreichische Drama und Theater seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Mal-gorzata Leyko, Artur Pelka and Karolina Prykowska-Michalak. Fernwald: Litblockin, 2009, 62-79.

Awards

• Feodor Lynen Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2009 - September 2011