Angela Esterhammer#
Membership Number: | 2501 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2008 |
Main Country of Residence: | CANADA |
Homepage(s): | https://www.english.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/angela-esterhammer |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Chair (Lehrstuhl) in English Literature, University of Zürich
- 2007 Distinguished University Professor (Adjunct), University of Western Ontario
- 2005 - 2007 Distinguished University Professor, University of Western Ontario
- 2005 - 2006 Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario
- 2004 - 2005 Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario
- 2000 - 2004 Full Professor and Department Head, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Western Ontario
- 1994 - 2000 Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
- 1989 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (joint appointment), University of Western Ontario
Fields of Scholarship
- cultural mobility and cultural transfer
- British, German, and European Romanticism and 19th-century culture
- nineteenth-century print culture
- speech acts, performativity, and performance
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
- 2008 Election to Academia Europaea
- 2005 Distinguished University Professor (University of Western Ontario)
- 2004 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
- 2004 Research Fellowship, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin
- 2002 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research
- 1996-1997 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
- 1990 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature
- 1988-1989 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
- 1988 Toronto Arts Awards Foundation Protege Award
- 1983-1984 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship
- 1983 John H. Moss Graduating Fellowship, University of Toronto
- 1983 Governor General's Gold Medal, Victoria University in the University of Toronto