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?
CONFERENCE “INTERTEXTUAL STEVENSON”, Publication of Conference Papers
In June 2024, Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff hosted an international conference on “Intertextual Stevenson”. An introduction to the conference topic by the organisers and a first article by Richard Dury, "Stevenson's Multiple Voices", have now been published in Connotations. For the link to Connotations and a conference report, see below.
Workshop "Comedy and Its Borders", 30 July, GB 1/29
Burkhard Niederhoff will host a one-day workshop on "Comedy and Its Borders", with contributions from nine speakers. If you want to participate, please contact Burkhard Niederhoff. Burkhard.Niederhoff-at-rub.de
For the programme see below.
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.
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.
