Birthe Hoffmann

Short presentation

CV added Apr. 2018

• Austrian Culture and Literature
• Literature and War experience/trauma
• Literature and Cultural/national identity
• Literature and the Sciences (Goethe, Musil, Stifter)
• Reception theory and phenomenology

CV

Born 1965

Education

• 1994-97: Ph.D.-degree June 1997 in German literature at the Institute of Germanic Philology, University of Copenhagen.
• 1985-93 : Cand.phil Feb. 1993 in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, thesis on Robert Musil and World War I.
• 1984-85: Language courses in German (and French) in Zürich, (Diploma).
• 1981-84: High School at Vestjysk Gymnasium, Tarm.

 Professional Experience

• 2009-  Ph.D.-counselor (Jessica Ortner and Anastasia Gremm)
• 2004-  Literary Editor in Chief (Text & Kontext. Zeitschrift für germanistische Literaturwissenschaft in Skandinavien)
• 2004-2011  Coordinator of German Studies, University of Copenhagen.
• 2003  Chair of ‘Sprogfagenes videnskabsteoriudvalg’
• 2001-   Associate Professor (present position) at the Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. (Maternity leave Nov. 2003 – July 2004 and Nov. 2005-October 2006.)
• 1998-2000  Assistant Professor in German Studies, University of Copenhagen.
• 1993+1997  Teaching assignments at German Studies, University of Copenhagen.
• 1992-  Counselor at Gyldendal

 Research abroad

• Feb-July 2009 Visiting scholar at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
• 1999   Visiting Scholar at the New York University, March-July (contact: Prof. Bernd Hüppauf)
• 1996   Doctoral education af the Humboldt-Universität (contact: Prof. Ernst Osterkamp.
• 1989-90  Scholarship from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst at the University of Constance.

Teaching

Office hours: Tuesday 13-14

Short presentation

teach:

- German (including Austrian and Swiss) literature from the 18th century to the present: Text analysis, literary theory, cultural and literary history, and selected topics.

- German and European film analysis and film history from the interwar period to the present

- German-Danish translation

- Topics in European cultural history

My approach to teaching is inclusive—I emphasize supporting students’ learning through independent work and group collaboration

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