Gerold Sedlmayr

 

 

Gerold Sedlmayr studied English and History at the University of Passau, including an academic year abroad at Trinity College Dublin. After short academic spells abroad, amongst others in Kalamazoo and Edinburgh, he was Professor of British Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg (2011-2013) and Professor of English Literature and Culture at TU Dortmund (2013-2024). He has held the Chair of English Literature at FAU since October 2024. In addition to Romantic literature and culture, his research and teaching focuses on contemporary British and Irish literature and culture, not least with a view to race and ethnicity. His work also focuses on literary and cultural theory, including economic criticism, which examines the interrelationships between literature, culture and economics and which he investigates as a member of the DFG network “Methodologies of Economic Criticism”.

 

Selected Publications 

• (under review, forthcoming 2025) “Writing Home: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland, the Negotiation of Borders, and the Idea of Irish Unity in the Work of the ‘New Irish’ Poets”. Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe, ed. Maurice H. Fitzpatrick and Christoph Reinfandt.
• (forthcoming 2025) “Irische Lyrik nach 1945”. Englische Literaturgeschichte, 6th edition, ed. Hans Ulrich Seeber and Martin Middeke, Metzler.
• “‘Ein Blick auf jenes Jammerhauß’: Lichtenberg, Bedlam und das Wissen um den Wahnsinn im England des 18. Jahrhunderts”. Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch 2022, ed. Ulrich Joost et al., Heidelberg: Winter, 2023, 125-148.
• “Ethnicity, Race and Representation in Britain”. How to Do Cultural Studies: Ideas, Approaches, Scenarios, ed. Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020, 135-166.
• with Marion Gymnich, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, and Dirk Vanderbeke. The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2018.
• with Florian Cord. Vol. 3 (2018) of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power: issue title: Culture, Power and Identity: The Theoretical Legacy of Stuart Hall, https://coilsoftheserpent.org/category/issue-3-2018/.
• with Nicole Waller. Politics in Fantasy Media: Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games. McFarland, 2014. Print and e-book.
• The Discourse of Madness in Britain, 1790-1815: Medicine, Politics, Literature. Studien zur Englischen Romantik 10, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011.