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?
Research Leave in the Summer Term 2025
Burkhard Niederhoff will be on research leave (Forschungssemester) in the summer term 2025, which means that he will not be teaching any courses. Nevertheless, he will be available for students and offer regular office hours. To make an appointment, contact Hildegard Sicking.
WDR Feature and Podcast on R. L. Stevenson
The WDR broadcast a Zeitzeichen about Robert Louis Stevenson on 3 December, the 130th anniversary of the writer’s death. Burkhard Niederhoff was interviewed as an expert. The broadcast is available on the WDR Website:
In addition, the interview will appear in an episode of Marko Rösseler’s podcast Die Geschichtsmacher.
CONFERENCE “INTERTEXTUAL STEVENSON”, 27 June – 29 June 2024
In June 2024, Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff hosted a conference on “Intertextual Stevenson”. The conference has brought together the international Stevenson community and pointed out new directions for the research on the Scottish writer. A Selection of Papers from the conference will now be published in Connotations, with an introduction by Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff. For two reports on the conference, see below.
Recently Published
“‘And in the porches of mine ear did pour’: Shakespeare’s Influence in Chapter 9 of James Joyce’s Ulysses.” Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, vol. 65, no. 1, 2024, pp. 205-28.
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, forthcoming in the Occasional Papers Series of the Association for Scottish Literature.
