Professor Christa Jansohn
Centre for British Studies, University of Bamberg
Prof Dr Christa Jansohn is Professor of British Culture and Director of the Centre for British Studies, University of Bamberg. She teaches British culture and literature from the Middle Ages to the present, placing special emphasis on the links between traditional philology and British Cultural Studies, as well as on interdisciplinary approaches and international co-operation in both teaching and research. Areas of specialisation are: the cultures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the reception of Shakespeare in Germany; the history of the German Shakespeare Society; D.H. Lawrence; nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture; scholarly editing; translation studies; the history of ‘mentalities’, representations of disease in British and American literature and culture; old age and ageing in British and American literature and culture; Queen Victoria; Queen Elizabeth, and Shakespeare apocrypha.
Professor Jansohn was a visiting fellow at several Cambridge colleges (Lucy Cavendish, Corpus Christi, Trinity), and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, a Fulbright Fellow at New York and Washington, and, repeatedly, Eric and Mary Weinmann Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. She is a member of the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London).
Among her book publications are: Zitat und Anspielung im Frühwerk von D.H. Lawrence (1990); D.H. Lawrence: The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (ed., together with Dieter Mehl, 1995); D.H. Lawrence: The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels (ed., together with Dieter Mehl, 1999); Zweifelhafter Shakespeare. Zur Geschichte der Shakespeare-Apokryphen und ihrer Rezeption von der Renaissance bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (2000); Companion to the New Literatures in English (ed., 2002); Old Age and Ageing in British and American Culture and Literature (ed., 2004); In the Footsteps of William Shakespeare (ed., 2005); Varianten – Variants – Variantes (ed., 2005); German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (ed., 2006); The Reception of D.H. Lawrence in Europe (ed., together with Dieter Mehl, 2007).
