Senior Lecturer in German

Head of Department (2007-2010)

Tel: 0113 34 33508
Fax: 0113 34 33517
Email: gll6ic@leeds.ac.uk

1. Staatsexamen Hamburg 1985  
2. Staatsexamen Hamburg 1987
Dr Phil Hamburg 1993

Biography

A native of Schleswig-Holstein, Ingo Cornils was educated at the Theodor Mommsen Schule in Bad Oldesloe and Belmond High School, Iowa. After his Zivildienst he attended the University of Hamburg and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Following teacher training and a stint in advertising, he came to England in 1987 as DAAD Lektor at the Leeds Metropolitan University from 1987 until 1990. At the University of Leeds, he worked as Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of German and the Language Centre (as Director of Language Centre Modules) from 1990. He joined the Department of German full-time in August 1999 and served as Head of Department 2002-2005. In 2007 he took on the headship of the newly merged Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies (GRASS). He is a member of the SMLC Management Committee and the University Blended Learning Futures Group.

He has organised three international conferences: Hermann Hesse Today (with Osman Durrani; London 2002), Uwe Timm in Perspective (with Frank Finlay; Leeds 2004), and Memories of '68 - an international perspective (with Sarah Waters, Alan O'Leary and Lan Yang; Leeds 2008).

He is a member of

• the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
  
  
• the International Hermann Hesse Society (Calw),
  
  
• the Scientific Board of the International Center for Protest Research, and
  
  
• the editorial board of the academic journal literatur für leser (Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M.)

Teaching

A trained teacher, he has helped to set up the institution-wide language programme at Leeds which offers general and specialised language tuition from ab initio to advanced level. For many years he taught German Current Affairs in their Political Context, an innovative lecture course involving task-focussed group work and extensive use of a custom-built German news archive. More recently, he redeveloped the SMLC module 'IT for Language Students' and was awarded a grant from the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund to develop the German Dissertation module so that students approach the dissertation as a research project in its own righ. Finished projects were presented at a 'mini conference' and in an e-journal.

In 2009/2010, he teaches in the following modules (Italics = Module Leader):

Research Supervision

Ingo Cornils is interested in supervising suitably qualified candidates who want to pursue research in the area of utopian thought, be it political, romantic or fantastic. His particular expertise is in the literary representation of the German Student Movement, the history of German Science Fiction from Kurd Laßwitz to Frank Schätzing, and the works and influence of Hermann Hesse.

Research

His research focusses on the complex relationship between political, utopian and fantastic thought, with a particular interest in Romanticism, the German Student Movement, German Science Fiction, and in the works of Kurd Lasswitz, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, and Uwe Timm.

Books

• 'Seers and Sayers'. Zum Gefühls- und Wahrnehmungswandel von der englischen Romantik zur Englischen Science Fiction. Die Science Fiction Welten von Richard Cowper. PhD Dissertation, 197 pp, published on microfiche, Universität Hamburg 1993

• with Osman Durrani (eds.), Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Neueren Germanistik 58, 221 pp, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi, 2005, ISBN 90-420-1606-X

• with Frank Finlay (eds.), (Un-)erfüllte Wirklichkeit. Neue Studien zu Uwe Timms Werk, 205 pp, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3244-6

• (ed.), Utopie, Fantasy und Science Fiction in Deutschland, special edition of literatur für leser, 29.Jahrgang, Nr. 4/06, Frankfurt/M., Peter Lang 2007, ISSN 0343-1657

• with Gerrit-Jan Berendse (eds.), Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (German Monitor), 345 pp, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2391-8

• (ed.), Grenzüberschreitungen. Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen phantastischen Literatur von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, special edition of literatur für leser, 30.Jahrgang, Nr. 4/07, Frankfurt/M., Peter Lang 2008, ISSN 0343-1657

• (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse, 438 pp, Rochester, Camden House 2009, ISBN 978-1-57113-330-4

Articles / Chapters in Books

• "Vergangenheitsbewältigung in den Tagesthemen", in: ALL German Teaching (The German Journal of the Association for Language Learning), No 14, December 1996, pp. 6-11, 1996, ISSN 0953-4822

• "The German Student Movement. Legend and Legacy", in: Debatte (Review of Contemporary German Affairs), Vol.4 / No.2, pp. 36-62, 1996, ISSN 0965-156X

• "Problems of Visualisation. The Image of the Unknown in German Science Fiction", in: Jeff Morrison / Florian Krobb (eds.), Text into Image: Image into Text, pp.287-295, (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Vol.20), Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997, ISBN 90-420-0152-6

• "'The Struggle Continues'. Rudi Dutschke's Long March", in: Gerard J. DeGroot (ed.), Student Protest. The Sixties and After, pp 100-114, London and New York: Longman, 1998, ISBN 0-582-35619-9

• "A Romantic in Ratzeburg: Coleridge's debt to North German Provinz", in: Richard Byrn (ed.), Cousins at One Remove, (Anglo-German Studies 2), pp. 27-41, Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 1998, ISBN 0-901286-98-2

• "Looking back: Piwitt, Rothschilds and the German Student Movement", in: David Basker (ed.), Hermann Peter Piwitt, (Contemporary German Writers Series), pp. 47-64, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7083-1665-4

• "Romantic Relapse? The literary representation of the German Student Movement", in: Chris Hall / David Rock (eds.), German Studies Towards the Millenium. Selected papers from the Conference of University Teachers of German, University of Keele, September 1999, pp. 107-123, Bern/Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang, 2000, ISBN 3-906765-65-2

• "Alles Kaputt? Visions of the End in West German and Austrian Science Fiction", in: Foundation (the international review of science fiction), Vol.30 / No.82, Summer 2001, pp. 57-74, Science Fiction Foundation, ISSN 0306-4964258; reprinted in: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol.218, edited by Thomas L. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, 67-77. Detroit: Gale, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4144-3413-1

• "Successful failure? The impact of the German Student Movement on the Federal Republic of Germany", in: Stuart Taberner / Frank Finlay (eds.), Recasting German Identity. Culture, Politics and Literature in the Berlin Republic, pp. 105-122, Rochester: Camden House 2002, ISBN 1-57113-244-9

• "Long Memories. The German Student Movement in Recent Fiction", in: German Life and Letters, Issue 56:1, January 2003, pp. 89-101, Blackwell, 2003, ISSN 0016-8777

• "The Martians are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Scientific Progress in H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Kurd Laßwitz's Auf zwei Planeten", in: Comparative Literature, Vol.55, No.1, Winter 2003, pp. 24-41, University of Oregon 2003, ISSN 0010-4124

• "Writing the revolution: The Literary Representation of the German Student Movement as Counter-Culture", in: Steve Giles / Maike Oergel (eds.), Counter-Cultures in Germany and Central Europe. From Sturm und Drang to Baader-Meinhof, pp. 295-314, Bern: Peter Lang 2003, ISBN 3-03910-007-6

• "Folgenschwere Schüsse. Die Kugeln auf Benno Ohnesorg und Rudi Dutschke im Spiegel der deutschen Literatur", in: Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Jahrgang XXXV - Heft 2, 2003, pp. 55-73, Bern: Peter Lang 2005, ISSN 0449-5233

• "Ein Glasperlenspiel im Internet. Hesse lesen im globalen Zeitalter", in: Andreas Solbach (Hg.), Hermann Hesse und die literarische Moderne, pp. 399-413, st 3609, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2004, ISBN 3-518-45609-1

• "The Martians are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Kurd Laßwitz's Auf zwei Planeten", in: Fred Bridgham (ed.), The First World War as a Clash of Cultures, pp. 137-154, Rochester: Camden House 2006, ISBN 1571133402

• "Uwe Timm, der heilige Georg und die Entsorgung der Theorie", in: Frank Finlay / Ingo Cornils (eds.), (Un-)erfüllte Wirklichkeit. Neue Studien zu Uwe Timms Werk, pp. 55-71, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3244-6

• "Reisen in Zeit und Raum. Die Renaissance der deutschen Science Fiction", in: Ingo Cornils (ed.), Utopie, Fantasy und Science Fiction in Deutschland, special edition of literatur für leser, 29.Jahrgang, Nr. 4/06, pp. 275-290, Frankfurt a.M., Peter Lang 2007, ISSN 0343-1657

• "Literary Reflections on '68", in: Stuart Taberner (ed.), Contemporary German Fiction. Writing in the Berlin Republic, pp. 91-107, Cambridge: CUP 2007, ISBN-13: 9780521860789

• with Gerrit-Jan Berendse, "Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism", in: Gerrit-Jan Berendse / Ingo Cornils (eds.), Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (German Monitor), pp. 9-20, Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2391-8

• "Joined at the hip? The representation of the German Student Movement and left-wing German terrorism in recent literature", in: Gerrit-Jan Berendse / Ingo Cornils (eds.), Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism (German Monitor), pp. 137-155, Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2391-8

• "Hermann Hesse und die Elite(n)", in: Michael Limberg (ed.), "Die gefährliche Lust, unerschrocken zu denken." Das Menschenbild bei Hermann Hesse, Stuttgart: Klett 2008, pp. 71-90

• "Denkmalsturz. The German Student Movement and German Colonialism", in: Michael Perraudin / Jürgen Zimmerer (eds.), German Colonialism and National Identity , New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-96477-7 (forthcoming)

• "From Outsider to Global Player - Hermann Hesse in the Twenty-First Century", in: Ingo Cornils (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse, pp 1-16, Rochester, Camden House 2009, ISBN 978-1-57113-330-4

Recent Conference Papers

• 'Magic / Tragic Moments. Memory Culture and Cultural Memory of the German Student Movement in Recent Literature', at the 'Memories of 1968' conference in Leeds (4/08)

• 'Hermann Hesse und die Elite(n)', at the 13. International Hermann Hesse Colloqium in Calw (5/08)

• 'Hermann Hesses Verhältnis zu den Medien' at the Silser Hesse-Tage in Switzerland (6/09)

Recent Reviews

• Marco Schickling, Hermann Hesse als Literaturkritiker, Heidelberg 2005, in: MLR 102.2, 2007

• Martin Klimke / Joachim Scharloth, 1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung, Stuttgart 2007, in: MLR 104.1, 2009

• Dina Brandt, Der deutsche Zukunftsroman 1918-1945, Tübingen 2007, in: MLR 104.1, 2009

• Jürgen Below, Hermann Hesse Bibliographie. Sekundärliteratur 1899-2007, Berlin / New York 2007, in: Colloquia Germanica 40 (3-4), 2007

• Barry Stephenson, Veneration and Revolt. Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism, Wilfrid Laurier UP 2009, in: MLR

Current Research Projects

• Editor, with Sarah Waters, of 'Memories of 1968 - International Perspectives' (Peter Lang)

• 'Furchtbare Symmetrien: Romantische Visionen im Werk der Dichter-Maler Hermann Hesse und William Blake' . Paper for the International Symposium 'Magischer Einklang. Dialog der Künste im Werk Hermann Hesses' in Düsseldorf (5/10)

• '"Der Schnee von gestern ist die Lawine von morgen." Utopian, dystopian and subversive strategies in recent German Alternate History fictions.' Paper for the German Fantastic Conference in Hamburg (10/10)

• Writing the Revolution. The representation of '1968' in Germany (book project)
  
  
• Editor, with Sabine Wilke, of a special issue of the academic journal literatur für leser on the literary representation of German colonialism
  
  
• The Hyperion Connection (Friedrich Hölderlin, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Richard Cowper, Dan Simmons)