History & Theory?of Literature
Media Studies
Bibliography and Publications
Contact
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Office Hours
Office Hours by Appointment.
Courses Offered
Spring 2022
2021-22 Spring – GER307 – Topics in German Culture and Society: Lost in Translation: From the Tower of Babel to MachineGER 307
Topics in German Culture and Society: Lost in Translation: From the Tower of Babel to Machine
Profile
Nikolaus Wegmann, a Germanist and literary historian with a strong interest in media culture, received his intellectual training at Bielefeld (Promotion 1984), Cornell University, and K?ln (Habilitation 1998). He has taught German literature at Bielefeld and K?ln and media studies at Potsdam, the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München, and at the Institut für Theater, Film und Fernsehwissenschaft K?ln. He has also held positions as a visiting professor at the University of Iowa and the University ofWashington.
Wegmann was a key figure in large-scale research projects on the history of Germanistik (Bielefeld) and on the intersection of media and cultural communication, organized jointly by the universities of K?ln, Bonn, and Aachen as Sonderforschungs-bereich?Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation. His research is focused on basic philological and cultural techniques such as (re) reading, collective reading, note-taking, or searching and finding. Nikolaus Wegmann is vice president of the Friedrich-Schlegel-Gesellschaft in Mainz, Germany. Together with Prof. Ulrich Breuer, he edited?Athen?um. Jahrbuch der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft from 2008 to 2017. He is a founding member of the American Friends of Marbach (AFM) and a co-founder of the Princeton-Weimar-Summer School for MediaStudies.
In 2002, the International Center of Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna, invited him as a senior visiting fellow. In 2010 he was a senior fellow at the?International Research Center for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy?(IKKM), in Weimar, and in 2011 at the Gutenberg Kolleg in Mainz, section?Historische Kulturwissenschaften. During the academic year 2013-2014, he was a fellow of the Mercator Research Group?Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge?at the University of Bochum and a research fellow at the?Center for the History of Knowledge?at the Eidgen?ssische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich). In spring 2018, he was a fellow at the “Digital Culture Research Lab” In Leuphana University inLüneburg.
Selected Publications
Diskurse der Empfindsamkeit: Zur Geschichte eines Gefühls in der Literatur des 18.Jahrhunderts
Metzler (Stuttgart),