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.
What's New?
Courses in the Winter Semester 2025/26
In the winter semester, Burkhard Niederhoff will give a lecture on realism, a BA course entitled “How to Do Things with Poems”, and two MA courses entitled “Alice Munro” and “Performing Cleopatra”. For more information, see “Courses and Exams/Current Courses”.
Conferences Hosted: Intertextual Stevenson / Comedy and Its Borders
In June 2024, Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff hosted an international conference on “Intertextual Stevenson”. A selection of the papers given at this conferences have now been published as essays in Connotations. For the link to Connotations and a conference report, see below.
In July 2025, Burkhard Niederhoff hosted a conference on "Comedy and Its Borders", with contributions from nine speakers. A selection of the4se will also be publisherd in Connotations. For a programme of the conference, see below.
Recently Published
“Tenor and Vehicle, Target and Source? Against Dualism in Metaphor Theory.” Metaphor Papers, 20, 2025, pp. 1-50.
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)
“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, Occasional Papers Series of the Association for Scottish Literature.
Niederhoff, Burkhard. 'Aestheticism and Decdence in the Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson' Anglia.
