Lisa Höller, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of German, Career Track – Scholarly

 

Biography

Lisa Höller is an Assistant Professor of German in the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race. Her current research focuses how 20th- and 21st-century German literature and art negotiate the material interconnectedness of human bodies and their environments drawing on ideas and concepts from diverse fields, e.g. the environmental humanities, women’s and gender studies, and monster theory. Other research and teaching interests include Austrian studies, sexuality studies, questions of Heimat in the German and Austrian imagination post WWII, translation theory, and linguistics.

 

PhD in German, Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Specialization in Translation Studies, University of Oregon

MA in German Philology, University of Salzburg

BA in German Philology and English and American Studies, University of Salzburg

 

Publications

Articles

• Höller, Lisa. “Reading Matters – Materiality and (Il)legible Inscriptions in Yoko Tawada’s “Das Bad“, Focus on German Studies, vol. 29, 2023, pp. 55-84.

• Höller, Lisa and Joscha Klüppel. “Michael Endes „Momo“ (1973): Zeitkonzept als pädagogisches Potential im DaF-Unterricht,“, Zeitnutzung in der aktuellen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: literaturwissenschaftliche und literaturdidaktische Perspektiven, edited by Sebastian Bernhardt & Johanna Tönsing, 2021, pp. 203-226.

• “Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children at the University of Oregon, director Michael Malek Najjar” (Review), e-cibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society, no. 1, 2019

Translations

• “Transparente Bilder: Caspar David Friedrichs Umgang mit Optik und Naturkunde.” Amstutz, Nina et al. (eds), Das Bild der Natur in der Romantik. Kunst als Philosophie und Wissenschaft. Paderborn: Brill/Wilhelm Fink, 2021, pp. 119-145.