Dr Joanna Raisbeck
Dr Joanna Raisbeck
- Montgomery Fellow in German Literature
Profile
I attended a local state grammar school (South Wilts Grammar School, Salisbury) and studied for my undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oxford. After completing my doctoral studies, I held lectureships at various Oxford colleges before spending a year as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Verona. I have returned to Oxford to take up my current post as Montgomery Fellow in German Literature.
College Teaching
I teach the entire breadth of modern German literature at Lincoln (Prelims and FHS), as well as translation from German to English.
- Research
I'm broadly interested in literature, philosophy, intellectual history, and their intersections with science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I've worked predominantly on German Romanticism, and in particular on Karoline von Günderrode. My current work is concerned with female philosophers and translators around 1800 (such as Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Sophie Mereau), and I am also developing a larger project on the social cultures of literature in this period.
- Select publications
'Symptomatic Readers and the Sentimental Novel’, Publications of the English Goethe Society 93.1 (2024), 83-98.
‘Fichtes Bestimmung des Menschen und die Rhetorik des Transzendentalismus’, Rhetorik. Ein internationales Jahrbuch (2023), 87-98.
‘The Politics of Romanticism: Novalis and the White Rose’, Oxford German Studies 52.1 (2023), 48-61.
‘Daimonic Energies in Hölderlin’s Tod des Empedokles’, Forces of Nature. Dynamism and Agency in German Romanticism, Frederike Middelhoff, Adrian Renner (eds.) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), pp. 127-146.
Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022)