- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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- Further details: www.karin-peters.com CURRENT ACTIVITIES Co-Organiser of Panel "The Face as Scene: Virtuality and E... moreFurther details: www.karin-peters.com
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Co-Organiser of Panel "The Face as Scene: Virtuality and Embodiment of Affect", 24th–27th September 2023, 38. Congress of Romance Studies in Germany, University of Leipzig
FIELDS OF RESEARCH AND/OR INTEREST
Sacrifical Authorship (Valéry, Bataille, Bioy Casares), Early Modern Pastoral, Contemporary Argentinian Literature, Cultural Theory, Literary Semiology, Discourse Analysis, Political Theory and Social Imaginary, Pathos and Affect, Transnational Literary History of the Siglo de Oro, Facial Studies
STATUS
since 2023 Chair for Romance Studies with special emphasis on the Iberoromania at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
2022 Habilitation at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
10/2014-03/2015 Research grant at the MSH in Paris (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme)
03/2013 Research grant at the Universitat de València
01/2013 Book Publication: Der gespenstische Souverän. Opfer und Autorschaft im 20. Jahrhundert (München: Fink)
10/2008-09/2023 Assistant Professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Romance Literatures (French, Spanish, Hispanoamerican Literatures)
02/2010 Ph. D. in Romance and Comparative Literature (summa cum laude), LMU Munich, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Teuber, Prof. Dr. Stephan Leopold
2007-2010 Ph. D. programme in Literature (ProLit), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2007-2010 Stipendiary with "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"edit
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Spanish honour plays have commonly been attributed either to an archaic Iberian tradition or its implicit limpieza de sangre ideology. Nevertheless, Masculinity Studies have argued since Sedgwick and Bourdieu that male honour and... more
Spanish honour plays have commonly been attributed either to an archaic Iberian tradition or its implicit limpieza de sangre ideology. Nevertheless, Masculinity Studies have argued since Sedgwick and Bourdieu that male honour and homosocial desire are means of 'trading' power. This study discusses the importance of homosocial desire for the dramatic plot and political mythology in Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna. I will underline in particular how the violated woman figures as a trope and 'affective prosthetic' of absolutism's social imaginary and how the play aims at destroying the male figure of the Comendador. These central acts of violence point to the emotional investments in the realm of politics. On the one hand, they express the complex relationship between the need to create a cultural memory of the successful and inaugurating Reconquista, and, on the other, the conflicting, phobic counter-memory of feudal masculinity.
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This article examines the theoretical ramifications of Roland Barthes' concept of myth both for the wider field of cultural memory or political affect theory and textual analysis alike. Treating the Mythologies as yet another example of... more
This article examines the theoretical ramifications of Roland Barthes' concept of myth both for the wider field of cultural memory or political affect theory and textual analysis alike. Treating the Mythologies as yet another example of the cultural politics of emotion in Sara Ahmed's sense, it is possible to derive a reading practice of literary affect from this classic of cultural theory. Where Barthes concerns himself with the contemporary 'Frenchness' of red wine or bourgeois French marital life, 19 th century writer Victor Hugo in turn fabricated his own (mostly visual) myths of French history in his novels. They depend on the creation of sensual images or palpable surfaces of depth and pull their readers deeper and deeper into the 'time of the nation', thus making it possible to feel national history. It is therefore the texture or écriture of both Barthes and Hugo that provides the emotional glue necessary for the constitution of imagined communities like the French nation, but as the analysis shows, such affective writing not only triggers positive emotions of identification but also carries phobic affective weight that can throw a shadow over the euphoric tale of revolution and modernity.
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Wann ist der Mann ein Politikum? Im Imaginären einer dominant homosozialen Gesellschaft erscheinen Macht oder Ohnmacht oft gekoppelt an die Kategorie des Geschlechts, insbesondere an eine positiv oder negativ überzeichnete Männlichkeit.... more
Wann ist der Mann ein Politikum? Im Imaginären einer dominant homosozialen Gesellschaft erscheinen Macht oder Ohnmacht oft gekoppelt an die Kategorie des Geschlechts, insbesondere an eine positiv oder negativ überzeichnete Männlichkeit. Dies reicht vom republikanischen Gründungsphantasma der jungfräulichen Nation - und ihres virilen Männerbundes - bis zur sexuellen Kodierung kolonialistischer Projekte. Literatur und Film bedienen oder hinterfragen diese politischen Konstruktionen von Männlichkeit. Am Beispiel der Romania und an historisch signifikanten Ereignissen untersuchen die Beiträge des Bandes, wie sich solche ästhetischen Figurationen des politischen Geschlechts denken lassen.
Call for Papers for a Panel at the Congress of Romance Studies in Germany 2023 “VIRTUALITY AND PRESENCE” (Leipzig, September 24-27TH 2023)
Deadline: December 31st 2022
Deadline: December 31st 2022