Burkhard Niederhoff is professor of English Literature. As a teacher, he is a generalist, with a broad range of courses centered around individual writers, genres, motifs and theoretical subjects. His research interests include the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, narrative theory and the history and theory of comedy. He co-edits Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate and has hosted some of the bi-annual conferences organised by the editors of the journal. He is currently editing a volume of tales for The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
What's New?
CONFERENCE “INTERTEXTUAL STEVENSON”, 27 June – 29 June 2024
In June 2024, Burkhard Niederhoff and Lena Linne will be hosting a conference on “Intertextual Stevenson”. For more information, please see "Conference 'RLS 2024'".
Courses in the Summer Semester 2024
In the summer semester, Prof. Niederhoff will be teaching
the following classes:
Narrative Theory (Lecture BA/MA/M.Ed)
Robert Louis Stevenson (MA/M.Ed.)
Unreliable Narration (MA/M.Ed.)
The Play within the Play: Shakespeare, Sheridan, Stoppard (BA)
Research Seminar
For more informations, please see "Courses and Eams".
Recently Published
Die vergessene Sympathie: Zu Geschichte und Gegenwart literarischer Wirkung, by Verena Olejniczak Lobsien. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, vol. 64, 2023, pp. 327-33. (Review)
Forthcoming
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Early Stories. Edited by Burkhard Niederhoff, The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh UP. (one volume in the new critical and annotated edition of Stevenson’s works)
“Schiffbruch ohne Zuschauer: Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe.” Schiffbruch in der Literatur, edited by Manuel Baumbach and Yasmin Temelli, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
“The Pleasure of the Intertext: Aesthetic Self-Fashioning in ‘Providence and the Guitar.’” Robert Louis Stevenson and Pleasure, edited by Julie Gay, Lesley Graham and Nathalie Jaëck, Brill.
Comedy on Stage and Screen: An Introduction, by Wieland Schwanebeck. Anglistik. (Review)
