Christoph Bode

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Christoph Bode (2010)

Christoph Bode (born May 13, 1952 in Siegen/North Rhine-Westphalia) is a literary scholar. His fields are British and American literature, comparative literature, literary theory, narratology, and travel writing. He is full professor and chair of Modern English literature in the Department of English and American Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Since 2009, Bode has been a reviewer and occasional columnist for Times Higher Education.

Early life and education[edit]

Bode is the second child of the private language school director and university lecturer (Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Dr. Adolf Bode and his wife Ute Bode (born Kuß). Bode was educated in his home town of Siegen (1959–1971), before reading English and American literature, geography, and philosophy/pedagogy at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and University College Cardiff (1971–1976). After his graduation from Marburg in 1976 (state examination), Bode received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1978 (English and American literature, with philosophy/pedagogy as minor subject). This was followed by Bode's alternative service as conscientious objector (1978–1980).

Career in academia[edit]

From 1977 to 1986, Bode was assistant professor and, from 1986 to 1992, associate professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany. In 1989/90 he temporarily filled the position of a professor of English and American literature at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany. In 1992 he was made professor of English and American literature at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, and in 1997 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2000, Bode received the offer of a chair of English literature from the LMU Munich.

Focus in research and teaching[edit]

Bode is a specialist in British, European, and American Romanticism and Modernist literature. With a background in philosophy and aesthetics (Ästhetik der Ambiguität, 1988), he is also a narratologist (The Novel, 2011; "Narrating Futures" project) and an expert in poetics. Other facets of his research include literary theory and travel writing. Bode has been the president of the Gesellschaft für englische Romantik (Society for English Romanticism) since 2001.

Memberships[edit]

Bode is a member of some 15 learned societies and associations, among them

Prizes, awards, fellowships[edit]

Referee and advisory boards[edit]

Bode serves on about a dozen advisory boards, among them the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fulbright Commission, Cusanus-Werk, European Romantic Review, Literature Compass, and Routledge.

Publications[edit]

Monographs[edit]

Bode has published 17 monographs, among them

  • Aldous Huxley, „Brave New World“, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 1985. (Text und Geschichte: Modellanalysen zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur, Bd. 13; utb 1312); 2., verbesserte Auflage 1993.
  • Ästhetik der Ambiguität: Zu Funktion und Bedeutung von Mehrdeutigkeit in der Literatur der Moderne, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1988. (Konzepte der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Bd. 4).
  • Der Roman: Eine Einführung, Francke, Tübingen 2005; 2., erweiterte Auflage 2011; engl. Ausgabe "The Novel: An Introduction", Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford/Malden, MA, 2011.
  • Selbst-Begründungen: Diskursive Konstruktion von Identität in der britischen Romantik 1: Subjektive Identität, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2008.
  • Fremd-Erfahrungen: Diskursive Konstruktion von Identität in der britischen Romantik 2: Identität auf Reisen, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, 2009.
  • Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment (zusammen mit Rainer Dietrich), Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
  • Vom Innehalten: Anhand einiger Gedichte der englischen Romantik, Format, Gera/Jena, 2017.

Editor and Co-Editor[edit]

Bode has co-edited 13 collections, among them

  • Hugo Keiper and Richard J. Utz, Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997. (Critical Studies, Vol. 10).
  • Ulrich Broich, Die Zwanziger Jahre in Großbritannien: Literatur und Gesellschaft einer spannungsreichen Dekade, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.
  • Sebastian Domsch, British and European Romanticisms: Selected Papers from the Munich Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.
  • (sole editor) Romanticism and the Forms of Discontent, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, 2017.
  • With Michael O’Sullivan, Eli Park Sorensen and Lukas Schepp, East-West Dialogues: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities, Peter Lang, Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles etc., 2020.

Series Editor[edit]

  • As president of the Gesellschaft für englische Romantik, Bode has been co-editor of the series "Studien zur englischen Romantik" with Die Blaue Eule publishers, as of 2005 with WVT Trier.
  • Co-editor since 2007, Münchener Universitätsschriften: Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie, Frankfurt/Main, Peter Lang Verlag (since 2016 Munich Studies in English = MUSE).
  • Co-editor, Literatur - Kultur - Theorie, Würzburg, Ergon Verlag (since 2007).
  • Narrating Futures, a five-volume book series, de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 2013. (Vol. 1: Christoph Bode, Rainer Dietrich: Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment; vol. 2: Felicitas Meifert: Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture; vol. 3: Sabine Schenk: Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film; vol. 4: Sebastian Domsch: Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games; vol. 5: Kathleen Singles: Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity).

Publications[edit]

Bode has published well over 70 articles, among them

  • Beyond/Around/Into One's Own: Reiseliteratur als Paradigma von Welt-Erfahrung, Poetica 26: 1–2 (1994), 70–87.
  • Azores High, Iceland Low: The Location and Dynamics of Shakespeare's Meaning and Value, Historicizing/Contemporizing Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Rudolf Böhm, eds. Christoph Bode, Wolfgang Klooß, Trier: WVT, 2000, 25–51.
  • The Subject of Beachy Head, Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism, ed. Jacqueline Labbe, Pickering & Chatto, London, 2008, 57–69.
  • Coleridge and Philosophy, The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Frederick Burwick, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, 588–619.
  • Absolut Jena. Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature, eds. Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, Thomas Constantinesco, Routledge, London/New York, 2015, 19–39.
  • A Model of Models? Reconceptualizing European Romanticisms and the Form(s) of Historicity, Romantik erkennen – Modelle finden, eds. Sandra Kerschbaumer, Stefan Matuschek, Schöningh, Paderborn, 2019, 131–143.
  • German Romanticism and the Sublime, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime, ed. Cian Duffy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, 69–80.

Reviews[edit]

Bode has written over 50 reviews, encyclopedia articles and handbook entries, mainly on romanticism and literary theory.

References[edit]

  1. ^ List of new members Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2011-12-19.
  2. ^ Narrating Futures Project, LMU Munich
  • "Bode, Christoph," in Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender, De Gruyter: Berlin (23rd ed.) 2011. ISBN 978-3-598-23630-3
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bode, Christoph in Annual Report on English and American Studies (AREAS), eds. Anja Holderbaum, Anne Kimmes, Joachim Kornelius, Trier: WVT, 1 ff. (1991 ff.) (biannual) ISBN 978-3-86821-339-3

External links[edit]

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