Markus HALLENSLEBEN, Associate Professor
MA (FU Berlin 1994), Dr. phil. (FU Berlin 1998)
Office: Buchanan Tower 206
On Study Leave 2011/12
Tel.: 604-822-5140
E-mail: mhallen(at)mail.ubc.ca

Canadian Year in Freiburg Resident Director, UBC/University of Freiburg (2009/10); Associate Faculty Member, Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, UBC (since July 2008); Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute of European Studies, UBC (since 2005); DAAD Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, Japan (April 1999-September 2003); Visiting Scholar, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Nagoya City University, Japan (May 1998-February 1999); Adjunct Lecturer, Department of German, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Winter 1995/96).

Teaching and Research Interests

  • 19th to 21st Century Austrian and German Literature
  • 20th Century Avant-Garde Movements and Aesthetics
  • Images of the Body in Literature, Sciences, and Art Performances
  • Transculturality in Contemporary Cultural Debates

    • UBC Courses

  • CENS 202
  • COMP 507D
  • GERM 300, 301, 310, 339, 380, 390, 400, 401, 407, 408, 410, 439, 500, 518, 519, 547 (Expressionism Module)
  • IEST 551_408
  • German Studies Under/Graduate Research Symposium 2009
  • German Studies Under/Graduate Research Symposium 2010 (pdf)

    • Research Projects

  • March 14-16, 2008 (@ Liu Institute): Interdisciplinary and international workshop on Body Spaces - Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts (CFP; Keynote speaker: Prof. Gabriele Brandstetter, Institute of Theatre Studies, FU Berlin, Germany. Supported by UBC Hampton Research Fund and SSHRC.)

  • Interweaving Tissue and Text: From Avant-Garde ‘Life as Art’ to Biotechnology (Authored Book Project)

  • The Human Body as Transcultural Palimpsest: 20th and 21st Century Austrian Literature and Art Performances (Working Title; Authored Book Project)

  • With Calvin N. Jones (co-editor 2002-2008), Jakub Kazecki (contributor 2005), Sonja Seims (contributor 2009): International Else Lasker-Schüler Bibliography. 2441 entries. Last Update 2011. Shared RefWorks Database. Web Publication.  (Supported by a UBC HSS Grant in 2004.) Submissions are welcome

    • Publications

    I. Books and Special Volumes

    1. (edited) Performative Body Spaces: Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts. Critical Studies 33. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2010. (250pp.)
    2. (co-edited) Kulturwissenschaft als Provokation der Literaturwissenschaft: Literatur - Geschichte - Genealogie. Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik. Vol. 3:3. Munich: iudicium, 2004. (214 pp.)
    3. (co-edited) Medien und Rhetorik: Grenzgänge der Literaturwissenschaft. Eds. Tetsuro Kaji et al. Munich: iudicium, 2003. (226 pp.)
    4. (authored) Else Lasker-Schüler: Avantgardismus und Kunstinszenierung. Tübingen/Basel: Francke, 2000. (367pp.) 

    II. Book Chapters

    1. "Heimat und Exil als Double-Bind: Erinnerungsräume in Else Lasker-Schülers Der Wunderrabbiner von Barcelona."  Jeder Vers ein Leopardenbiss: Else Lasker-Schüler Almanach. Vol. 9. Ed. Hajo Jahn. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, 2011. 298-318.
    2. "Mapping the Body Space between Gender and Grammar: VALIE EXPORT's ‘Body Configurations’." Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Austrian Literature and Culture. Ed. Clemens Ruthner and Raleigh Whitinger. Austrian Culture Series. Vol 46. Ed. Marianne Lamb-Faffelberger. New York et. al: Peter Lang, 2011. 401-18. (In Print.)
    3. (with Jens Hauser) "Performing the Transfacial Body: ORLAN’s Manteau d'Arléquin.” ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks. Ed. Simon Donger, Simon Shepherd, and ORLAN. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. 138-54.
    4. "To Be Educated Is to Become a Harlequin: Cross-Skinning as Carnivalesque Hybridity in Michel Serres, Hannah Höch's Dada and ORLAN's Body Art." Gender and Laughter: Comic Affirmation and Subversion in Traditional and Modern Media. Ed. Andreas Böhn, Stefan Horlacher, Gaby Pailer, and Ulrich Scheck. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2009. 119-37.
    5. "Performativity and Performance in Else Lasker-Schüler." A Transatlantic Gathering: Essays in Honour of Peter Stenberg. Ed. Margareta Götz-Stankiewicz and Thomas Salumets. Munich: Iudicium, 2007. 45-56.
    6. "Von der Figur zur Figuration: Historische Avantgarde im double bind von Ethnographie und Soziologie." Figuration / Defiguration: Kultur und Kulturwissenschaft als Prozess. Ed. Atsuko Onuki and Thomas Pekar. Munich: Iudicium, 2006. 75-96.
    7. "Performance of Metaphor: The Body as Text - Text Implantation in Body Images." Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies. Ed. Carolin Duttlinger, Lucia Ruprecht, and Andrew Webber. Oxford et al.: Peter Lang. 2003. 241-55.
    8. "(Anti-)Rhetorik und irrationale Interaktionsmuster in den Debatten der 90er Jahre". Geistiger Klimawechsel? - Zu den kulturpolitischen Debatten der 90er Jahre in Deutschland (u.a. zu Botho Strauss, Martin Walser, Peter Sloterdijk). Ed. Walter Ruprechter. Tokyo: Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, 2001. 15-27.
    9. "Heines Romanzero als Zeit-Triptychon: Jüdische Memorliteratur als intertextuelle Gedächtniskunst." Heine Jahrbuch 40 (2001): 72-85. 
    10. "Von der Hieroglyphik zu einer Poetik der Handschrift: Lasker-Schülers Beitrag zur 'Primitivität' der Moderne."Schrift : Bild : Schrift. Ed. Ricarda Dick and Norbert Oellers. Bonn: August Macke Haus, 2000. 161-70. [Reprint of Else Lasker-Schüler: Avantgardismus und Kunstinszenierung. 82-91.] 
    11. "Else Lasker-Schülers Der Malik als Schlüsselroman." Else Lasker-Schüler-Jahrbuch zur Klassischen Moderne. Ed. Andreas Meier and Lothar Bluhm. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2000. 121-43. 
    12. "Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Else Lasker-Schülers avantgardistischer Briefroman Mein Herz." Else Lasker-Schüler: Ansichten und Perspektiven/Views and Reviews. Ed. Ernst Schürer and Sonja Hedgepeth. Tübingen; Basel: Francke, 1999. 187-218. 
    13. "Else Lasker-Schüler und ihr Verleger Heinrich F.S. Bachmair." Deine Sehnsucht war die Schlange: Else Lasker-Schüler Almanach. Ed. Anne Linsel and Peter von Matt. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag, 1997. 244-56. 
    14. "... warum sind die Dichter meist nur in Worten gut: Gerhart Hauptmann und Else Lasker-Schüler." Leben - Werk - Lebenswerk: Ein Gerhart Hauptmann-Gedenkband. Ed. Edward Bialek and Marek Zybura. Legnica: Orbis Linguarum [Sonderband], 1997. 99-126.

    III. Selected Articles

    1. "Importing VALIE EXPORT: Corporeal Topographies in Contemporary Austrian Body Art.” Modern Austrian Literature 42:3 (2009). 29-49.
    2. "From Rilke to Stelarc: Cross-Mapping Body Figurations in Early 20th Century German Literature with Early 21st Century Body Performances." Seminar 43.4 (2007): 441-52. 
    3. "Vom Cyborg zum Interface Organism: Stelarcs und TC&As Extra Ear-Performance." Körpermaschinen - Maschienenkörper: Mediale Transformationen. Paragrana 14:2 (2005): 221-34.
    4. "Die Welt bricht auf an allen Enden: Leben und Werk Else Lasker-Schülers." Schöngeist (Berlin). 4 (2005). 56-61.
    5. "Post-post-moderne Expeditionen ins Jetzt: Das Theater von Marlene Streeruwitz." Text+Kritik 164 (2004): 64-74. 
    6. "Zum Innenleben eines Sprachschrittmachers: Das Herz als Subjektmetapher." Literarischer Ausdruck und Koerper: am Beispiel der deutschen Literatur. Ed. Yoshihiko Hirano. Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 2003. 107-30.
    7. "Österreich 'Ohneland': Robert Schindels Gedichte." Trans 7 (May 2001). Web.
    8. "Avantgardismus am 'Ending': Bodo Hell und Hil de Gard / Aufnahmen und Reproduktionen." Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Nagoya City University) 6 (1999): 1-18.
    9. "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: On the Relationships Between Early 20th Century Avant-garde Movements and New Media." Visible Language 33:2 (1999): 154-71. (->Abstract.)
    10. "Frommer Dichter, schwarzer Schwan und Ruebezahl im Armenhause: Neues Archivmaterial zu Peter Hille".  Hille-Blätter 15 (1998): 47-67.

    IV. Reviews in Germanistik (Tübingen) [8], LiteraturBulletin (Munich) [2], German Studies Review [2], MAL [1], The German Quarterly. [1]

    V. Contributions to German Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary. Ed. Holger Briel. London: Arnold, 2002.

     

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