Prof. Anton Kirchhofer

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Institute for English and American Studies, Literary and Cultural StudiesUniversity of Oldenburg, Germany

Bio: Anton Kirchhofer is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oldenburg. His research has focused on literature in its discursive environments, including the formations and functions of sexual knowledge in 18^th century fiction, the history and genealogy of critical discourse in the 19^th century, and the genealogy of literature in secular societies. He is a founding director of the interdisciplinary Fiction Meets Science research group at Oldenburg and Bremen, and has published widely on the narrativization of science in contemporary fiction and other public discourses, and the theoretical dimensions of cross-disciplinary engagement. A co-edited volume on Science, Culture and Postcolonial Narratives is forthcoming.