Professor Ritchie Robertson

Ritchie Robertson, D.Phil. (M.A. Edinburgh), FBA
Professor of German, Fellow of St. John's College
Address:  St John's College, Oxford, OX1 3PJ
Homepage:  http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/index.php?A=2&B=3&X=178
Email:   ritchie.robertson@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 277437
Fax:   01865 277435

Research

Ritchie Robertson is interested in a wide range of authors and topics in the period from 1750 onwards, notably Kafka; Heine; Austrian literature; and the Enlightenment as an international movement. His most recent book is a comparative study entitled Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine (OUP, 2009). Future projects include a study of Schiller and conspiracy, and a history of the Austrian Enlightenment and the survival of its ideals down to the twentieth century. He is co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre (with Carolin Duttlinger and Katrin Kohl), Germanic Editor of the Modern Language Review and convenor of the Bithell Series of Dissertations.

Teaching

A wide range of authors and topics roughly in the period 1750-1950, particularly Schiller, Heine, Nietzsche, Kafka, Thomas Mann.

Graduate Teaching

I am currently supervising five doctoral students on a range of topics, mostly from the early twentieth century, and am happy to consider requests for supervision over a wider period.

Selected Publications | View all publications

'Alfred Döblin\'s feeling for snow: the poetry of fact in Berge Meere und Giganten', in Alfred Döblin: Paradigms of Modernism, ed. Steffan Davies and Ernest Schonfield (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009), 217-230

Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine (Oxford: OUP, 2009)

'Der Götterkrieg: Ein episches Motiv von Milton bis Heine', in Harry ... Heinrich ... Henri Heine, ed. Dietmar Goltschnigg et al. (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2008), 131-140

Editor, with Katrin Kohl, A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006)

'Kafka und die skandinavische Moderne', in Franz Kafka und die Weltliteratur, ed. Manfred Engel and Dieter Lamping (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006), 144-65

Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2004)

'Modernism and the self, 1890-1924', in: Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990, ed. Nicholas Saul (Cambridge: CUP, 2002), 150-96

Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge: CUP, 2002)

'Zum deutschen Slawenbild von Herder bis Musil', in: Das Eigene und das Fremde: Festschrift Urs Bitterli, ed. Urs Faes and Beatrice Ziegler (NZZ-Verlag, 2000)

The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939 (Oxford: OUP, 1999)

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