Prof. Dr. Uwe Wirth
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- Board Member
- Spokesperson of Section 5
- Prof. Dr. Uwe Wirth
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- Contact
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Contact
Department of German Studies
Chair of Literature and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen
35394 GiessenTel: 0641-9929090Fax: 0641-9929099
- Short Biography
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- 2007 – present Professor of German Literature and Cultural Studies at the Department of German Literature at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
- 2008 – present Member of the Joint Research Project "Cultural Techniques and Their Mediatization"
- 2005 – 2007 Scientific Coordinator at the "Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung" in Berlin
- 2005 Habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt about editorial framing in German literature around 1800
- 1997 PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt about theories of humour ("Diskursive Dummheit. Abduktion und Komik als Grenzphänomene des Verstehens")
- 1992 – 1993 DAAD-Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (Department of Philosophy and Department of German Literature)
- Main Research Interests
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- Semiotics, pragmatism, and abductive inference
- Performativity theory
- Media theory (with a focus on hypertextuality)
- German literature around 1800
- Philosophy of culture
- Theory and history of science
- Greffologie