Roles and subjects

Stipendiary Lecturer in Modern Languages (German)

Contact

alexandra.hertlein@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

I studied Classics, German literature, and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg (State Examination) before obtaining an MSt in Modern Languages at St Peter’s College, Oxford. I am currently working on my PhD project at St Catherine’s College, which explores narratives of origin and concepts of originality in German literature around 1800.

From 2019–2020, I worked as a lecturer in Classics (Greek) at the University of Freiburg.

Undergraduate Teaching

• Prelims Literature Paper
• Poetry Commentary
• Paper X (Heine, Kafka)
• Translation into English

Research Interests

• Concepts of Originality and Narratives of Origin in the Romantic Period
• Literature and Deep Time
• The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature

Publications

• Der Reichsapfel des Paris. Moraldidaktische Mythenkorrekturen des Parisurteils in der höfischen Festkultur des 17. Jahrhunderts. (Forthcoming),
• “Aufgeschrieben und mitgetheilt“ – Zur Poetik der Nachahmung in Liededitionen um 1800. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik. (Forthcoming).
• Bestiarium des Barbaren – Nietzsches Raub-, Sklaven- und Haustiere im Lichte der Antike Berlin, ed. by S. Kaufmann/M. Winkler. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2022.
• ‘Am Eingangstor der hellenischen Ethikʽ: Nietzsche liest Hesiod. In: Nietzsche als Leser, ed. by H.-P. Anschütz, A. T. Müller, M. Rottmann, Y. Souladié. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2021.
• Together with Julius Thelen: ‘Autorschaft‘. In: Literaturtheorie nach 2001, ed. by P. Durdel e.a. Berlin: Matthes&Seitz 2020.