Winfried Fluck

Winfried Fluck ( born April 2, 1944 in Blumenfeld ) is a German American Studies and professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin.

Life and work

Fluck studied from 1963 to 1970 English, American and German Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1972 he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin on aesthetic preconceptions and method. A study using the example of the American Huck Finn - criticism. After his habilitation in 1983, also at the Free University of Berlin. After stints at Harvard University and Yale University Winfried Fluck was first Professor of English and American Literary History at the University of Konstanz and is since 1989 Professor of American Culture at the Free University of Berlin. He was a visiting professor at Princeton and at the Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona, ​​Research Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Chapel Hill, USA, the Advanced Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. From 1997 to 2001 he was Speaker of the Research Training Group "The U.S. and the problem of democracy" and from 2005-2008 Speaker of the review board " Literature, Theatre and Media Studies " of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Since 2006 he has been together with Ulla Haselstein spokesman for the Graduate School of North American Studies, which is funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments, and forwards along with Don Pease, the Dartmouth Institute " The Futures of American Studies" at Dartmouth College, USA. Since 2012 he is a member of the Academia Europaea.

Publications

  • Aesthetic Theory and Literary Method. An investigation of the connection between the example of the American Huck Finn - criticism. Metzler, Stuttgart 1975
  • Popular culture. Metzler, Stuttgart 1979
  • Theories of American literature. Verso, 1987
  • Staged reality. The American Realism 1865 - 1900th Fink, Munich 1992
  • The cultural imaginary. Function history of the American novel in 1790 - 1900th Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1997
  • How much inequality can tolerate democracy? Poverty and wealth in the United States. Eds. W. Fluck and Welf Werner. Campus, Frankfurt 2003
  • Transnational American Studies. REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, 23, 2007, eds. . W, Fluck, Stefan L. Brandt, Ingrid Thaler
  • Chapter D, II: 'culture', in Peter Loesche, Hg Country Report United States. Federal Centre for Political Education, BpB, 5 new Edit. Ed Bonn 2008, pp. 712-812, bibliography
  • Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies. University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2009
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