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Monika Fludernik (born 1957), a native Austrian, is professor of English literature and culture at the
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...
, Germany. Fludernik earned her doctorate at the
University of Graz The University of Graz (german: link=no, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, ), located in Graz, Austria, is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria. History The univers ...
, Austria, where she studied with professor
Franz Karl Stanzel Franz Karl Stanzel (born 4 August 1923) is an Austrian literary theorist who specialised in English literature. Academia Born in Molln, Austria, Stanzel finished his degree with Herbert Koziol in Graz. After his habilitation in 1955, he was pro ...
. In 1984, she took up an associate professorship at the
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, and since 1994 she has been a full professor at Freiburg. Fludernik has held several temporary fellowships, at the Universities of
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, and Harvard, among other places, and she is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008 she is also a member of
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. Fludernik is renowned for her contribution to several fields of literary theory, particularly that of
narratology Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. It is an anglicisation of French ''narratologie'', coined by Tzvetan Todorov (''Grammaire du Décaméron'', 1969). Its theoretical li ...
, but also to postcolonial literary criticism, eighteenth-century aesthetics, and law and literature studies. She has also published on metaphor and, more recently, on otium (leisure) as part of th
collaborative research centre on otium
funded by the German Research Foundation. In 2023, she was elected to the
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.https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023


Works

Besides being sole author of 6 books (see below), Fludernik has published more than 100 scientific articles and has edited and co-edited several volumes of books/special issues of scientific journals. Books:
''Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy''. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019.
* ''Introduction to Narratology'', London/New York: Routledge, 2009. * ''Einführung in die Erzähltheorie''. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006. * ''Echoes and Mirrorings:
Gabriel Josipovici Gabriel David Josipovici ( ; born 8 October 1940) is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright. He is an Emeritus professor, after having been Professor at the University of Sussex. Biography He was born ...
’s Creative Oeuvre''. Frankfurt/New York: Lang, 2000. * ''Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology''. London/New York: Routledge, 1996. * ''The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness.'' London/New York: Routledge, 1993. Edited books: * Ed., together with Marie-Laure Ryan. ''Narrative Factuality: A Handbook.'' Revisionen. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. * Ed., together with Jan Alber. ''Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses.'' Columbus, OH: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2016. Paperpack edition. * Ed., together with Miriam Nandi. ''Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in British Literature.'' Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014. * Ed. ''Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor.'' Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics, 3. London: Routledge, 2011. * Ed., together with Greta Olson. ''In the Grip of the Law: Prisons, Trials and the Space Between.'' Frankfurt/New York: Lang, 2004. * Ed. ''Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments.'' Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 66. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. * Ed. ''Hybridity and Postcolonialism: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature.'' Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1998.


References


External links


Monika Fludernik's Homepage
* Fludernik's works in th
British Library Catalogue
* Reinhart Koselleck Project "Diachronic Narratology" on th
University of Freiburg website
and the website o
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