Sigrid Weigel

Sigrid Weigel (born March 25, 1950, Hamburg) is a professor of German Literature and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin.[1]

She is a member of Academia Europaea and the Modern Language Association.[2]

Life

She studied at the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1977, earning a PhD.

She is the chairwoman of the Centre for the Humanities (GWZ) in Berlin and Professor at the Institute of Literature of the Technical University Berlin.[3] From 1984 to 1990, she taught at the University of Hamburg, and from 1990 to 1993 at the Cultural Research Institute, Essen.

She has been a visiting professor at Basel, Berkeley, Cincinnati, Harvard, and Stanford.[3] She is currently appointed as Permanent Visiting Professor at Princeton University.[4]

In 2016 she received the Aby Warburg Prize

Works

Works in English

  • "Woman Begins Relating to Herself", Sigrid Weigel and Luke Springman, New German Critique, No. 31, West German Culture and Politics (Winter, 1984), pp. 53–94
  • Patricia Herminghouse, Magda Mueller, eds. (2001). "Double Focus: On the History of Women's Writing". German feminist writings. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-1280-5.
  • Gerhard Fischer, ed. (1996). "Reading/Writing the Feminine City". 'With the sharpened axe of reason': approaches to Walter Benjamin. Berg. ISBN 978-1-85973-054-6.
  • Dan Diner, Gotthart Wunberg, eds. (2007). "Conversion, Exchange, and Replacement". Restitution and memory: material restoration in Europe. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-220-9.
  • Body and Image Space. Re-Reading Walter Benjamin. Translator Georgina Paul. London: Routledge. 1996. ISBN 978-0-415-10955-0.
  • Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy.Transl. by Chadwick T. Smith. Stanford UP 2013.

Editor

Co-Editor

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  2. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Weigel_Sigrid
  3. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  4. Faculty, Department of German Studies
  5. http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/25111.html
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