Christa Jansohn#
| Membership Number: | 5027 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://uni-bamberg.de/britcult |
Present and Previous Positions
- 09/1999 - 03/2000 Eric and Mary Weinmann Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
- 04/1999 - 09/1999 Guestprofessor at the Humboldt University Berlin (summer term)
- 10/1998 - 03/1999 Guestprofessor at the University of Trier (winter term)
- 04/1997 - 09/1998 Assistant Professor (wissenschaftliche Assistentin auf Zeit) - Bonn University
- 10/1995 - 07/1996 Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (funded by the DFG)
- 04/1995 - 03/1997 Fellowship funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 08/1990 - 03/1995 Assistant Professor (wissenschaftliche Assistentin auf Zeit), University of Bonn
- 08/1985 - 07/1990 Assistant Professor (“wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”), University of Bonn
Fields of Scholarship
- Christoph Martin Wieland's Shakespeare translations (1762-66) - critical edition: Wielands Werke: Ossmannstedter Ausgabe
- Editorial Theory and Practice
- Book History (Tauchnitz, library of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Coburg)
- Renaissance Studies (Shakespeare, epic poems, apocrypha, stage history, reception in Germany)
- Jew of Malta on the German Stage (e.g. Nazi adaptation by Otto A.C. Nedden, Weimar, 1938)
- (funded by the DFG)
- Translation Studies
- History of the German Shakespeare Society (1864-1964)
- D.H. Lawrence (editing , intertextuality and reception history)
- Literature and the Visual Arts (Adolph Menzel and Shakespeare)
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Eleanor M. Garvey Fellow in Printing and Graphic Art, Houghton Library, Harvard University
- 2015-16 and 2010-11 Visiting Fellow (Churchill College, Cambridge, elected lifelong Fellow)
- 2009 Research Fellow at Crassh (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge)
- 2005-06, 1999-2000, 1994 Short and long term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
- 2004 Prize of the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz (Commerzbank Prize) for her "wide-ranging, many-sided,
- and remarkably fruitful research activities, which have enriched dialogue with Anglo-Saxon scholarship"
- 1999 and 1992 Fulbright Fellow at New York and Washington
- 1994 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas
- 1985 Studienstiftung der Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
- 1985 Queen's Prize, University of Bonn ("for the most outstanding student of the year")
