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Andrea Allerkamp is a professor of western European literatures at the Europa-Universität Viadrina, where she was spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group Lebensformen + Lebenswissen and directs the Franco-German master’s programme in philosophy and cultural studies. She is a member of the advisory board of the Kleist Museum in Frankfurt an der Oder. Before 2011, she taught at French universities: as a professor in Aix-Marseille and Poitiers, and as a maître de conférences in Toulouse. She has received several academic invitations, most recently as a visiting professor at the Université Paris I-Sorbonne and as a fellow at the International Centre Morphomata at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on the history and criticism of aesthetics, the interactions between philosophy and literature, the relationship between law and literature, and dream criticism. She is coeditor of Rhetorik: Ein internationales Jahrbuch and was also on the editorial board of the Kleist-Jahrbuch until 2022.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- With Martin Roussel. “‘Um einen Kleist von außen bittend’: Bestandsaufnahme – Über-Setzungen – Konstellationen – Fallgeschichten”. In Kleist-Jahrbuch 2022, edited by Andrea Allerkamp et al. J. B. Metzler, 2022.
- “Kleist: Kohlhaas”. In Handbuch Literatur & Philosophie, edited by Andrea Allerkamp and Sarah Schmidt. De Gruyter, 2021.
- “Zur Kritik des Eides bei Kleist und Shakespeare”. In Komparatistik heute: Aktuelle Positionen der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, edited by Jörg Steigerwald et al. Wilhelm Fink, 2021.
- “Urszenen der Zerreißung: Zum Gesetz der Gattung in Penthesilea”. In Unarten: Kleist und das Gesetz der Gattung, edited by Andrea Allerkamp et al. Transcript, 2019.
- “Fluchen, Schwören, Lügen: Zur Gebrechlichkeit von Recht und Religion bei Kleist und Shakespeare”. In Kleist-Jahrbuch 2018, edited by Andrea Allerkamp. J. B. Metzler, 2018.
