Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf Schneider - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Die Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2024)

Ralf Schneider studied English, Romance Studies (Spanish and Italian) and Educational Science at the University of Cologne, where he received his PhD in 1999. He received his post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) from the University of Freiburg in 2004. From 2005 until 2019 he was Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at Bielefeld University and joined the Institute of English, American and Romance Studies (IfAAR) at RWTH Aachen University in Spring 2019 as Professor and Chair of English Literature.
He ist co-founder of the Aachen Centre for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies (ACCELS).

  • ed. (with Andrea Gutenberg) Gender – Culture – Poetics: Zur Geschlechterforschung in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. (Festschrift für Natascha Würzbach). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999.

  • ed. (with Barbara Korte, and Stefanie Lethbridge) Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical Perspectives from Cultural and Literary Studies. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

  • ed. (with Hartmut Berghoff, Barbara Korte, and Christopher Harvie) The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.

  • ed. (with Barbara Korte). War and the Cultural Construction of Identities in Britain. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2002.

  • ed. Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis: Eine anglistisch-amerikanistische Einführung. (Narr Studienbücher). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004.

  • ed. (with Stephan Gramley) Cultures in Process: Encounter and Experience. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2009.

  • ed. (with Jens Eder, and Fotis Jannidis) Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film and Other Media. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2010.

  • ed. (with Marcus Hartner) Blending and the Study of Narrative: Approaches and Applications. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 2012.

  • ed. (with Anne Schröder, and Ulrich Busse) Codification, Cannons, and Curricula: Description and Prescription in Language and Literature. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2012.

  • ed. (with Oliver Knebel von Doeberitz) London Post-2010 in Literature and Culture. (Spatial Practices, Vol. 25.) Amsterdam, Atlanta: Brill 2017.

  • ed. (with Sandra Dinter), Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Literature, Media and Society. (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present.) Farnham: Ashgate 2018.

  • ed. The Times of Culture and the Cultures of Time: British Temporalities. Special Issue Journal for the Study of British Cultures 24.2 (2018).

  • ed. (with Jane Potter), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War. (Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies.) New York, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021.

  • ed. (with Lut Missinne and Beatrix van Dam). Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Fiktionalität. New York & Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020.

  • ed. (with Jan Alber) Routledge Companion to Cognition and Literary Studies (in preparation).

  • "Feministische Literaturkonzeptionen im Kontext viktorianischer feminist periodicals." In: Andrea Gutenberg, and Ralf Schneider (eds.). Gender – Culture – Poetics: Zur Geschlech­terforschung in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. (Festschrift für Natascha Würzbach). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999. 449-471.

  • "Pour une théorie cognitive du personnage littéraire: La dynamique de construction d'un modèle mentale." (trans. Aline Jarousse.) In: TLE – Theorie, Littérature, Enseignement 17 (1999): 87-113.

  • "Of Love, Cats and Football: The Popular Anthology in Britain Today – Between Culture and Commodity?" In: Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, and Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.). Anthologies of British Poetry: Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 289-307.

  • (with Barbara Korte) "The Published Screenplay: A New Literary Genre?" In: AAA – Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25.1 (2000): 89-105.

  • "Toward a Cognitive Theory of Literary Character: The Dynamics of Mental-Model Con­struction." In: Style 35.4 (2001): 607-640.

  • "Consuming Monarchy: The Changing Public Images of Queen Victoria." In: Christa Jansohn (ed.). In the Footsteps of Queen Victoria: Wege zum viktorianischen Zeitalter. (Studien zur englischen Literatur, Vol. 15). Münster: LIT, 2003. 41-66.

  • (with Craig A. Hamilton) "From Iser to Turner and Beyond: Reception Theory Meets Cognitive Criticism." In: Style 36.4 (2002): 640-658.

  • "Plädoyer für eine theoriegeleitete Literaturwissenschaft." In: Ralf Schneider (ed.). Litera­turwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004. 1-22.

  • "Rezeptionstheorien." In: Ralf Schneider (ed.). Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004. 189-211.

  • (with Barbara Korte, and Claudia Sternberg) "Einleitung und Grundlegung." In: Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, and Claudia Sternberg. Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Mediendiskurse der Erin–nerung in Großbritannien: Autobiographie – Roman – Film, 1919-1999. Würzburg: Königs–hausen & Neumann, 2005. 1-32.

  • "Der Erinnerungsdiskurs in der Autobiographie." In: Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, and Claudia Sternberg. Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Mediendiskurse der Erinnerung in Groß­britannien: Autobiographie – Roman – Film, 1919-1999. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neu­mann, 2005. 33-142.

  • "Hypertext Narrative and the Reader: A View from Cognitive Theory." In: European Journal of English Studies 9.2 (2005): 197-208 (special issue The Cognitive Turn: Papers in Cognitive Literary Studies, eds. Michael Toolan, and Jean-Jacques Weber).

  • "The Literary War Commentary, the Media and the Performance of Authenticity." In: Lilo Moessner (ed.). Anglistentag 2004 Aachen: Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 2005. 421-433.

  • "Literary Childhoods and the Blending of Conceptual Spaces: Transdifference and the Other in Ourselves." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 13.2 (2006): 147-160 (special issue Theorizing Difference and Transdifference, eds. Doris Feldmann, Ina Habermann, and Dunja Mohr).

  • "Der Krieg, die Künste und die Medien – theoretische Überlegungen." In: Annegret Jürgens-Kirchhoff, and Agnes Matthias (eds.). Warshots: Krieg, Kunst & Medien. Weimar: VDG Verlag, 2006. 11-29.

  • "Hybride Genres: Antonia S. Byatt." In: Vera Nünning (ed.). Der zeitgenössische englische Roman. Trier: WVT, 2007. 197-210.

  • "Cultural Change and Genre Change in English Comedy 1660-1800: Economy, Politeness, and the Social Logic of Desire." In: Matthias Bauer, and Angelika Zirker (eds.). Drama and Cultural Change: Turning Around Shakespeare. Trier: WVT, 2009. 135-152.

  • "Methoden rezeptionstheoretischer und kognitionswissenschaftlicher Ansätze." In: Vera and Ansgar Nünning (eds.). Methoden der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Textanalyse. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. 91-108.

  • (with Jens Eder, and Fotis Jannidis) "Understanding Characters in Fictional Worlds: An Intro­duction." In: Jens Eder, Fotis Jannidis, and Ralf Schneider (eds.). Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film and Other Media. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2010. 3-64.

  • "Sociology: The Private and Public Life of Societies." In: Gabriele Linke (ed.). Teaching Cultural Studies: Methods – Matters – Models. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 107-128.

  • "The Invisible Center: Conceptions of Masculinity in Victorian Fiction – Realist, Crime, Detec­tive, and Gothic." In: Stefan Horlacher (ed.). Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature From the Middle Ages to the Present. New York [et al.]: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 147-168.

  • "Codification, Description and Prescription in British Literary History." In: Anne Schröder, Ulrich Busse, Ralf Schneider (eds.) Codification, Cannons, and Curricula: Description and Prescription in Language and Literature. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2012. 45-59.

  • "Blending and the Study of Narrative: An Introduction." In: Ralf Schneider, and Marcus Hartner (eds.) Blending and the Study of Narrative. Approaches and Applications. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter 2012. 1-30.

  • "Making Sense: Ziele, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer kognitiven Rezeptionstheorie." In: Gabriela Brahier, Dirk Johannsen (eds.). Konstruktionsgeschichten: Narrationsbezogene Ansätze in der Religionsforschung. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2013. 37-53.

  • "New Narrative Dynamics? How the Order of a Text and the Reader’s Cognition and Emotion Create its Meanings." Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 63.1 (2013): 47-67. (Special issue New Narratologies: Recent Developments and New Directions, ed. Ansgar Nünning.)

  • "The Cognitive Theory of Character Reception: An Updated Proposal." Anglistik 24.2 (2013): 117-134. (Special Issue Focus on Reception and Reader Response, ed. Renate Brosch.)

  • (with Marcus Hartner) "The Cognitive Theory of Literary Genres Revisited: Cues from Con–struction Grammar and Conceptual Integration." In: Daniel Jacob, and Monika Fludernik (eds.). Linguistics & Literary Studies: Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2014. pp. 383-401.

  • "Men at Work: Arbeit und (imaginierte) Männlichkeit im britischen Frauenroman des langen 19. Jahrhunderts." In: Renate Möhrmann (ed.). Frauenphantasien: Der imaginierte Mann im Werk von Film- und Buchautorinnen. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2014. 217-273.

  • "Interpretationsschemata und Rezeptionsprozess: Anmerkungen zum Interpretieren aus Sicht einer kognitiven Rezeptionstheorie." In: Jan Borowski, Stefan Descher, Felicitas Ferder, Philipp David Heine (eds.). Literatur interpretieren: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis. Münster: Mentis, 2015. 251-276.

  • (with Marcus Hartner) “British Novels of Migration and the Construction of Transnational Social Spaces.“ ZAA – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 63.4 (2015), 411-431.

  • "Shocking Readers: The Genres of Victorian Popular Fiction, the Classes, and the Book Markets." In: John Storey (ed.). The Making of English Popular Culture. London, New York: Routledge 2016. 118-130.

  • "The Fate of Heroism after Industrialisation: The Working-Class Male in the British 19th Century Realist Novel and Beyond." In: Barbara Korte and Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.). Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2016. 67-84.

  • "E.M. Forster: A Passage to India." In: Christoph Reinfandt (ed.). Handbook of the English Novel, 1900–2000. Berlin, New York: de Grutyter, 2017. 175-194.

  • (with Oliver Knebel von Doeberitz). "Introduction." In: Knebel von Doeberitz, Oliver, and Ralf Schneider (eds.). London Post-2010 in Literature and Culture. (Spatial Practices, vol. 25.) Amsterdam, Atlanta: Brill, 2017. 1-21.

  • "Kognitivistische Narratologie." In: Martin Huber, and Wolf Schmid (eds.). Erzählen. (Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 5.) Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2017. 580-596.

  • "The Autobiography of the First World War." In: Sarah-Julia Herbe, and Gabriele Linke (eds.). British Autobiography in the 20th and 21st Centuries. (Special Issue a & e – Anglistik und Englischunterricht.) 2017. 17-38.

  • "Comparison, Analogy, and Knowledge in Literature: Basic Considerations and the Case of Early Modern English Texts." In: Haase, Christoph, and Anne Schröder (eds.), Analogy, Copy, and Representation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Bielefeld English and American Studies, vol. 7). Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2017. 137-154.

  • "Is there a Future for Neuro-Narratology?" In: John Pier, and Philippe Roussin (eds). Emerging Vectors of Narratology. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2017. 479-497.

  • "Resisting Topographies: Immigration, Space and the City in Contemporary British Film." In: Christoph Ehland, and Pascal Fischer (eds.). Resistance and the City. Negotiating Urban Identities: Race, Class, and Gender. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Brill Rodopi 2018. 36-49.

  • (with Sandra Dinter). "Approaching Childhood in Contemporary Britain: Introduction." In: Sandra Dinter, Ralf Schneider (eds.). Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. (Ashgate Studies in Childhood: 1700 to the Present.) 2018. 1-16.

  • "Internationale Arbeitsmigration und die Erosion der britischen Arbeiterklasse: It's a Free World...". In: Claudia Lillge (Hg.). Ken Loach. FilmKonzepte, vol. 48. München: edition text+kritik, 2018. 43-54.

  • "Die Welt und die Regionen in der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur." In: Radaelli, Giuila, David Segura, and Nike Thurn (eds.) Gegenwartsliteratur – Weltliteratur: Historische und theoretische Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. 71-103.

  • (with Lut Missinne and Beatrix van Dam. “Einleitung.” Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Fiktionalität Eds. Lut Missinne, Ralf Schneider, and Beatrix van Dam. New York &Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. 3-49.

  • (with Marcus Hartner and Anne Lappert). “Looking for Textual Evidence: Digital Humanities, Middling-Class Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel.” Digital Methods in the Humanities: Challenges, Ideas, Perspectives. Ed. Silke Schwand. Bielefeld University Press, an Imprint of transcript Verlag, 2020. 239-268.

  • (with Jane Potter): "Introduction: Versions of the First World War." In: Schneider, Ralf, Jane Potter (eds). Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War. (Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies.) New York, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021. 1-34. doi.10.1515/9783110422467-001

  • (with Jane Potter): "Edmund Blunden: Undertones of War (1928) and War Poetry." In: Schneider, Ralf, Jane Potter (eds). Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War. (Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies.) New York, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021. 214-230. doi.10.1515/9783110422467-012

  • "R.C. Sherriff: Journey's End (1928)." In: Schneider, Ralf, Jane Potter (eds). Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War. (Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies.) New York, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021. 435-444. doi.10.1515/9783110422467-028

  • "Time and The Experience of Narrative." In: Alber, Jan, Peter Wenzel (eds.) Introduction to Cognitive Narratology. Trier: WVT, 2021. 95-118.

  • "Potential and Actual Cognitive-Emotional Engagement with Characters: A Response to
    Michael Whitenton and Bonnie Howe & Eve Sweetser." Biblical Interpretation (Special Issue: Cognitive Linguistics and New Testament Narrative: Investigating Methodology through Characterization, eds. Jan Rüggemeier and Elizabeth E. Shively) 29.4-5 (2021): 530-550. doi:10.1163/15685152-29040006
  • "Iconographies of 'Childness' and the Contemporary British Novel: Book Covers, Discourses, and Cultural Models." Anglia 139.4 (2021): 710-738.
  • "The Circulating Library, the Novel, and Implicit Practices of Comparing in Eighteenth-Century England: Assembling 'Middle-Class' Literariness." In: Böhm-Schnittker, Nadine, Marcus Hartner (eds.). Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century. (Culture & Theory, vol. 258). Bielefeld: transcript, 2022. 45-76.

  • (with Marcus Hartner) "Comparing Conduct: English Novels of the Long Eighteenth Century and the Formation of Ideals of Social Behaviour." In: Böhm-Schnittker, Nadine, Marcus Hartner (eds.). Comparative Practices: Literature, Language, and Culture in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century. (Culture & Theory, vol. 258). Bielefeld: transcript, 2022. 77-104.

  • with Rüdiger Zymner and Katja Mellmann: Poetogenesis - Studien zur empirischen Anthropologie der Literatur. Münster: Mentis.

    with Anne Schröder and Wilfried Raussert: BEAST – Bielefeld English and American Studies. Bielefeld: Aisthesis.

    with Alice Bell and Richard Gerrig: Routledge Focus on Dialogues in Cognitive Literary Studies.

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