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Pd Dr. Gert Hofmann Staatsprüfung (Münster), Dr. phil (Würzburg), Dr. phil. habil (Rostock)

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Pd Dr. Gert Hofmann Staatsprüfung (Münster), Dr. phil (Würzburg), Dr. phil. habil (Rostock)

Conference Contributions

Hofmann, Gert (2012) Topodynamic of Place and Body. [Oral Presentation], UCC, Department of German Research Seminar, UCC, Cork , 03-DEC-12 - 03-DEC-12.
Hofmann, Gert (2012) Poetics of the Body. Figures of Unity in Contemporary Writing. [Oral Presentation], Body and Awareness. The Discourse between Anthropology, Literature and the Arts, University of Zadar, Croatia , 24-MAY-12 - 26-MAY-12.
Hofmann, Gert (2012) „Dass alle heiligen Orte der Erde zusammen sind um einen Ort ...“ Hölderlins Bordeauxreise und der Hervorgang einer anti-idealistischen Poetik. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Guest Lecture Series, McGill University, Montreal , 13-SEP-12 - 13-SEP-12.
Hofmann, Gert and Zoric, Snjezana (2012) International Conference as forum for debate and dialogue on current theory, practice and form of anthropological, literary and artistic work in social and cultural conceptualizations of body and awareness. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Body and Awareness. The Discourse between Anthropology, Literature and the Arts, University of Zadar, Croatia , 24-MAY-12 - 26-MAY-12.
Hofmann, Gert (2012) „Dass alle heiligen Orte der Erde zusammen sind um einen Ort ...“ Hölderlins Bordeauxreise und die Geburt einer Poetik des Leibes. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], LANDSCAPE AND TRAVELLING - East and West (Académie du Midi), Alets les Bains, France , 28-MAY-12 - 01-JUN-12.
Hofmann, Gert etc. (2012) First International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland. [Conference Organising Committee Member], TRANSITIONS IN COMPARATIVE STUDIES, UCC, Cork , 28-JUN-12 - 30-JUN-12.
Hofmann, Gert; (2011) Keynote Lecture: Literarische Kosmographie oder Was kostet die Vermehrung der Welt. Ilija Trojanows Roman Der Weltensammler. [Plenary Lecture], International Postgraduate Conference in German Studies, University College Cork , 09-MAY-11 - 10-MAY-11.
Hofmann, Gert (2011) International Workshop. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Heterotopia. Literatures Dis-placed, University College Cork , 16-MAY-11 - 16-MAY-11.
Hofmann, Gert (2011) Presentation and Seminar: Theatre of Crisis. Colonus as heterotopos of lived mortality. [Plenary Lecture], Heterotopia. Literatures Dis-placed, University College Cork , 16-MAY-11 - 16-MAY-11.
Hofmann, Gert (2011) Truth in Literature. Truth in Comparing (Hofmannsthal’s ‘Lord Chandos Letter’ and Coetzee’s ‘Lady Chandos Letter’). [Invited Lectures (Conference)], International PhD-Summer School on “Comparing” , UCC, Cork , 05-SEP-11 - 10-SEP-11.
Hofmann, Gert (2011) German Literature: broken nationality and idealist universality. [Invited Oral Presentation], Littérature du monde, UCC, Cork , 14-OCT-11 - 15-OCT-11.
Hofmann, Gert; (2010) Invited workshop: Poetics of the Body. On the Construction of literary Subjectivity in Contemporary Writing. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], THINKING IN UNITY AFTER POSTMODERNISM - Figures of Unity, Presence, and Transcendence at the Millennium, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich , 11-NOV-10 - 13-NOV-10.
Hofmann, Gert; (2010) Sie ist Zärtlichkeit, wie unsere Popularität ... Nationalerotik im Spätwerk Hölderlins. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Habilitation Lecture, University of Rostock , 25-JAN-10 - 25-JAN-10.
Hofmann, Gert; (2010) Sie ist Zärtlichkeit, wie unsere Popularität ... Nationalerotik im Spätwerk Hölderlins,. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], TCD Research Seminars (Department of Germanic Studies), Trinity College Dublin, Department of Germanic Studies , 25-MAR-10 - 25-MAR-10.
Hofmann, Gert; (2010) Sie ist Zärtlichkeit wie unsere Popularität Poetologie des Leibes im Spätwerk Hölderlins. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], UW PhD Workshop, University of Washington, Department of Germanics , 22-OCT-10 - 22-OCT-10.
Hofmann, Gert (2010) Im Dritten Raum der Literatur. Der 'Weltensammler' in Indien. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], UPenn PhD-Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures , 16-SEP-10 - 16-SEP-10.
Hofmann, Gert; (2010) Poetics of the Body. Hölderlin and the currents of literary theory. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], UPenn Faculty Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures , 23-SEP-10 - 23-SEP-10.
Hofmann, Gert; (2010) Die Ästhetik der Ohnmacht und der Humanismus des anderen Menschen. Ilse Aichingers Roman Die größere Hoffnung. [Oral Presentation], MALCA Annual Conference, University of Vienna , 22-MAY-10 - 25-MAY-10.
Hofmann, Gert (2009) Im Dritten Raum der Literatur. Der 'Weltensammler' in Indien. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], India in German Speaking Literatures, Banares Hindu University , 26-SEP-09 - 29-SEP-09.
Hofmann, Gert (2009) Philosophie als Kunst der Transfiguration. Nietzsche und Raphael. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], LEBENSLÄNGLICHe - Auseinandersetzung mit Wirklichkeit - Exhibition Project, University of Hanover , 06-NOV-09 - 06-NOV-09.
Hofmann, Gert (2009) Hölderlin's Antigone. Tragic Excess of Love and Violence. [Oral Presentation], NEMLA-Convention 2009, Boston, MA , 26-FEB-09 - 01-MAR-09.
Hofmann, Gert (2009) Synopsis of Redemption and Abjection: On a Literary History of Raphael's Transfiguration. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Eye and Mind, Lecture Series, University College Cork, Glucksman Gallery , 21-MAY-09 - 21-MAY-09.
Hofmann, Gert (2008) Antigone. From Sade-Lacan to Hölderlin. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], TCD, Department of Germanic Studies, Research Seminars, TCD, Department of Germanic Studies, Dublin , 06-MAR-08 - 06-MAR-08.
Hofmann, Gert (2008) Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Aesthetics of Non-Power (“Ästhetik der Ohnmacht”). [Oral Presentation], Poetics after 1945. Crisis and Creativity, Queen's University Belfast , 20-JUN-08 - 22-JUN-08.
Hofmann G; (2008) Oedipus at Colonus. Tragic Inversion of Ritual Order. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association 2008 on Arrivals and Departures, Long Beach, CA , 24-APR-08 - 27-FEB-08.
Hofmann G; (2008) Seminar on the occasion of the ACLA Annual Conference 2008 on Arrivals and Departures. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Topographies of Arrival in Pilgrimage as Ritual, Theatre, and Literature, Long Beach, CA , 24-APR-08 - 27-APR-08.
Hofmann, Gert (2008) Poetics after 1945. Crisis and Creativity. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Poetics after 1945. Crisis and Creativity, Queen's University Belfast , 20-JUN-08 - 22-JUN-08.
Hofmann, Gert (2007) Antigone's Radical Aesthetics of Love. [Oral Presentation], ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) annual conference; Seminar on Love and Death, Puebla, Mexico , 19-APR-07 - 22-APR-07.
Hofmann, Gert (2007) Kunstbeschreibung und Beschreibungskunst in Wilhelm Heinses Roman Ardinghello. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Erasmus Visit, University of Leipzig , 09-MAY-07 - 09-MAY-07.
Hofmann, Gert (2007) Spiele der Ohnmacht. Ilse Aichingers Roman “Die größere Hoffnung“. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Guest Lecture, QUB, Department of German , 08-MAR-07 - 08-MAR-07.
Hofmann, Gert (2007) Representing the Holocaust. Lanzmann’s Shoah. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Erasmus Visit, University of Leipzig, English Department , 10-MAY-07 - 10-MAY-07.
Hofmann, Gert (2006) Vom Theater der Philosophie. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Guest Lecture, University of Rostock , 24-APR-06 - 24-APR-06.
Hofmann, Gert (2006) Aesthetik der Subversion: Antigone. [Oral Presentation], Research Seminar Series of the Department of German, UCC, UCC, Department of German , 09-MAY-06 - 09-MAY-06.
Hofmann, Gert; (2006) The Reception of Antigone in German Idealism. [Oral Presentation], Reception Studies. UCC Seminar Series, UCC , 15-FEB-06 - 30-DEC-99.
Hofmann, Gert; (2006) Roundtable with Joseph Leo Koerner, Jim Elkins and members of the Faculty of Arts, UCC. [Other], Conversions on Art: Joseph Leo Koerner, UCC, History of Art , 24-MAY-06 - 25-MAY-06.
Hofmann, Gert; (2006) Exzentrische Signaturen. Hoelderlins spaete Lyrik. [Invited Oral Presentation], Signaturen, NUI Galway , 05-MAY-06 - 05-JUN-06.
Hofmann, Gert (2006) Syncopes. Time Fractures in Nietzsche's Philosophy. [Oral Presentation], Nature and Time in Literature and the Visual Arts, University of Dehli, India , 05-DEC-06 - 07-DEC-06.
Hofmann, Gert (2005) Nietzsche and Artaud: Theatre between Religion and Art. [Oral Presentation], Perforum, Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, Cork, UCC, Granary Theatre , 09-MAR-05 - 09-MAR-05.
Hofmann, Gert; (2005) International conference on law and literature and the cultural theory of law. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Figures of Law. Studies in the Interference of Law and Literature, UCC , 15-JUN-05 - 16-JUN-05.
Hofmann, Gert (2005) Nietzsche and Artaud: Theatre between Religion and Art (extended version). [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Guest Lecture, University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature , 21-MAR-05 - 21-MAR-05.
Hofmann, Gert; (2004) Synkopen. Figuren der Ohnmacht in Ingeborg Bachmanns Liebesgedichten. [Invited Oral Presentation], Ingeborg Bachmann Konferenz, University of Dublin, Trinity College , 30-APR-04 - 01-MAY-04.
Hofmann, Gert; (2004) Der Himmel über Berlin. A Sentimental Journey from Heaven to Earth. [N/A], 9th Galway Colloquium 2004 on Literature to Film - Film to Literature, NUI Galway , 02-APR-04 - 04-APR-04.
Hofmann, Gert; (2004) Alle Asche ist Blütenstaub ... Romantic Commotions between Anti-Idealism and Meta-Realism. [Oral Presentation], ICLA-Conference 2004 (International Comparative Literature Association), Hongkong , 09-JUL-04 - 15-JUL-04.
Hofmann, Gert (2004) Roundtable with Jim Elkins and guests. [Other], Conversation on Master Narratives and their Discontents, Cork, UCC, History of Art , 20-FEB-04 - 21-FEB-04.
Hofmann, Gert; (2003) Theater Philosophy. Nietzsche and the Imaginaire. [Oral Presentation], XII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts: The Imaginaire, UCC , 05-MAY-03 - 07-MAY-03.
Hofmann, Gert (2003) Ästhetische Subversion. Hegels Hamlet. [Invited Oral Presentation], Research Seminar, UCC, Cork , 11-FEB-03 - 11-FEB-03.
Hofmann, Gert; (2002) Poetry as Quotation: Rilke . [Oral Presentation], XI Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts: Hemispheres, UCC , 03-MAY-02 - 05-MAY-02.
Hofmann, Gert; (2002) Theaterphilosophie. Nietzsches Ästhetik der Transfiguration . [Invited Oral Presentation], Play - Ritual - Performance, Zentrum für Medien Kunst Kultur in Hanover, Germany , 26-SEP-02 - 28-SEP-02.
Hofmann, Gert (2002) Novalis. Vom Ritus der Bekenner des Universums. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Guest Lecture Series, University of Hanover, Department of German Literature and Language , 01-FEB-02 - 01-FEB-02.
Hofmann, Gert; (2002) Hadeshochzeit. Zur Deutung der Antigone bei Lacan, Hegel und Hölderlin. [Oral Presentation], German-French conference “Das Liebeskonzil/Le Concile d’amour”, Hanover University, Germany , 11-JUL-02 - 13-JUL-02.
Hofmann, Gert; Dischner, Gisela; Jürgens, Hans-Joachim (2002) International Research Colloquium. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], New Developments in Gender Studies: Marsilio Ficino and Don Juan, UCC, Cork , 23-JAN-02 - 23-JAN-02.
Hofmann, Gert; (2001) Performance, Praxis, Poiesis. The Ritual Genesis of Theatrical Art. [Oral Presentation], Perforum, a series of lectures and performances organised by the Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC, UCC, Granary Theatre , 18-FEB-01 - 30-DEC-99.
Hofmann, Gert (2000) Eros sive Hermes. Zur europäischen Tradition einer ästhetischen Wahrnehmung des Fremden,. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Guest Lecture Series, University of Hanover, Department of German Literature and Language , 30-JUN-00 - 30-JUN-00.
Hofmann, Gert; (2000) Performance, Praxis, Poiesis. Kult und Ästhetik der Tragödie. [Invited Oral Presentation], Theatre and Religion organised on the occasion of the EXPO Theatre Festival SCENA 2000 in Hanover, Hanover, Germany, Zentrum fuer Medien - Kunst - Kultur , 04-OCT-00 - 06-OCT-00.
Hofmann, Gert (2000) Spiegel meiner Seele. Susette Gontards Briefe an Hölderlin. [Invited Oral Presentation], Das literarische Paar / Le couple litteraire, Universität Hannover, Germany , 13-JUL-00 - 15-JUL-00.
Hofmann, Gert; (1999) Nietzsche, Raphael and the Aesthetics of Transfiguration . [Oral Presentation], Nietzsche and Post-Analytic Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK , 10-SEP-99 - 12-SEP-99.
Hofmann, Gert; (1999) Corpus versus Forma. Ästhetik der Berührung bei Wilhelm Heinse. [Oral Presentation], Gestik in Text und Bild, Universität Konstanz, Germany , 07-OCT-99 - 10-OCT-99.
Hofmann, Gert; (1996) Annual international conference on German Studies organised by the Koreanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Sorak-Symposium 1996, Sorak Mountain, Korea , 29-MAR-96 - 31-MAR-96.
Hofmann, Gert; (1995) DAAD-workshop on theoretical problems of inter-cultural communication. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Fremdheit und Kommunikation, Goethe-Institut Seoul , 28-MAY-95 - 28-MAY-95.
Hofmann, Gert; (1995) Eros. Mythologie und Philosophie des Fremden. [Plenary Lecture], Fremdheit und Kommunikation, DAAD-workshop on theoretical problems of inter-cultural communication, Goethe-Institut Seoul, Korea , 28-MAY-95 - 28-MAY-95.
Hofmann, Gert (1995) Das andere Denken. Dichtung und Fremdheit bei Hölderlin. [Oral Presentation], Sorak Symposium 1995, Koreeanische Gesellschaft f. Germanistik, Sorak Mountain , 24-MAR-95 - 26-MAR-95.

Honours and Awards

Year: 2012.

Title: DAAD Research Scholarship
Year: 2007.

Title: Research Achievement Award
Year: 2005.

Title: Japan Foundation Research Scholarship
Year: 1991.

Title: DAAD Visiting Professorship Grant
     

Committees

Committee : Fachbereichsrat (Faculty Executive Council) Faculty of Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Hanover

From:01-JUN-98     To: 30-SEP-99
Committee : SCENA Advisory Board (Annual Theatre Festival and Conference) Protestant Church of the State of Lower Saxony, Germany

From:01-MAY-99     To: 30-JUN-00
Committee : Studienkommission (Board of Studies), Faculty of Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Hanover

From:01-JUN-98     To: 30-SEP-99
Committee : Faculty Elections Committee, Faculty of Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Hanover

From:01-JUN-98     To: 30-SEP-99
Committee : Board of Studies, Faculty of Law, UCC

From:01-OCT-99     To: 31-DEC-12
Committee : Library Committee, Faculty of Arts

From:01-OCT-04     To: 30-JUN-11
Committee : Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, UCC

From:01-JUL-04     To: 30-JUN-11
Committee : CACSSS Executive Committee, UCC

From:01-SEP-07     To: 31-AUG-10
Committee : Student Affaires Committee , CACSSS, UCC

From:01-JUN-06     To: 01-JUN-09
Committee : Departmental Graduate Studies Committee, German Department, UCC

From:01-SEP-03     To: 30-DEC-04
Committee : CACSSS Research Committee

From:01-SEP-10     To: 31-AUG-12
Committee : CACSSS Academic Developoment Committee

From:03-DEC-12     To:
Committee : CACSSS Graduate Studies Committee

From:01-JUN-12     To:
Committee : Staff-Student Committee, Faculty of Law, UCC

From:01-SEP-99     To: 31-DEC-12
Committee : Academic Council, UCC

From:01-JAN-10     To: 31-JUL-10
Committee : Advisory Board in the Korean Society for Germanic Studies (bi-annual Sorak-Conference on Germanic Studies in Asia)

From:01-JUN-93     To: 31-DEC-95
Committee : Selection Board for DAAD-PhD scholarship applications, German Embassy, Seoul, Korea

From:01-OCT-91     To: 30-NOV-95
Committee : Ständiger Ausschuss Deutsch als Fremdsprache, German Embassy, Seoul, Korea

From:01-OCT-91     To: 30-NOV-95

Employment

Employer: UCC

Position: Lecturer

From:01-OCT-99     To: 30-DEC-99
Employer: UCC

Position: Acting Head, Department of German

From:01-JAN-11     To: 15-JUL-11
Employer: Leibniz-Universität Hannover

Position: Hochschulassistent/Assistant Professor

From:01-DEC-95     To: 30-SEP-99
Employer: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul

Position: Lecturer/Assistant Professor/DAAD Visiting Professor

From:01-SEP-91     To: 30-NOV-95
Employer: Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Position: Research Fellow and Part Time Lecturer

From:01-OCT-86     To: 30-AUG-91
Employer: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Position: Research Assistant

From:01-JUL-86     To: 31-DEC-86

Education

Year 2010 Institution: University of Rostock

Qualification: Habilitation Subject: Modern German Literature
Year 1995 Institution: University of Würzburg

Qualification: Ph.D. Subject: Neuere deutsche Literatur
Year 1986 Institution: University of Münster

Qualification: M.A. Subject: Education, German, Philosophy
 

Languages

German:
English:
French:
Latin:
Korean:

Consultancy

Client: : Cork Institute of Technology
Client: : Korean National Intelligence Services
Client: : Educational Broadcasting System Korea (EBS)
Client: : Korean Higher Education Authority
   

Other Activities

Editor (Chair, Board of Editors) of Academic Book Series: Edition Kairos. Kulturwissenschaft und Ästhetik (Cultural Science and Aesthetics), Francke Verlag: Tübingen and Basel, 2003-2010.





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