Stephan Jaeger

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University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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Stephan Jaeger is Full Professor of German Studies at the University of Manitoba and Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies. Before, he has taught and researched at the Universities of Bielefeld, Gießen, Szczecin, Wisconsin (Madison), and Colorado (Boulder). He has received grants and scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Volkswagen Foundation, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Study Foundation for the German People), among others. He specializes in literary and cultural theory and the narratological and poetic analysis of non-fictional historiographical discourses, such as historical writing, the historical museum, and documentary films, with a particular emphasis on war representations and the Second World War. He has published extensively on narratology, history and literature, documentary history in historiography, film, and the museum, historical fiction, representations of war, and romantic and modern poetry. He has written two monographs: “Theorie lyrischen Ausdrucks” (Theory of Lyrical Expression) (Fink 2001); “Performative Geschichtsschreibung: Forster, Herder, Schiller, Archenholz und die Brüder Schlegel” (Performative Historiography in the Late-Eighteenth Century) (de Gruyter 2011) and five co-edited books including “Fighting Words and Images: Representing War across the Disciplines” (University of Toronto Press, 2012) and a special issue of “Seminar” 50.1 (February 2014): “Representations of German War Experiences from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.” He is co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Network War and Violence of the German Studies Association. Currently he works on a comparative research project on twenty-first century museum representations of the Second World War in North America and Europe (Germany, Poland, U.K., Belgium, Canada, US).