Field of Focus III Research Council
CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN GLOBALISED WORLDS
The role of the Research Council of Field of Focus 3 is to coordinate interdisciplinary research, to identify new areas of research, and to support promising research projects through start-up financing. In this way, Field of Focus 3 can further develop the specific profile of the humanities at Heidelberg University, give fresh impetus through relating emerging fields, and support projects that involve cooperation with other the other Fields of Focus of the University. At the most basic level, it supports young researchers and gender equality within the Field of Focus 3 and its numerous institutions.
Head
Prof. Dr. Günter Leypoldt
leypoldt@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Günter Leypoldt is professor of American literature and culture at the Faculty of Modern Languages. He taught American Studies at the universities of Tübingen (2001-2007), Maryland–College Park (2003), and Mainz (2007-2009). Günter Leypoldt holds degrees in American, British, and German literatures from Cape Town (B.A.) and Tübingen (doctorate and Habilitation). He has published essays on literary transcendentalism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetics, twentieth-century literary and cultural theory, and a monograph on contemporary fiction, Casual Silences: The Poetics of Minimal Realism (2001). His most recent study deals with nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture and its modernist reconstruction, Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective (2009). His present research interests include transatlantic romanticism and modernism, American pragmatism, transculturality, the borders between aesthetic and religious experience, and the sociology of knowledge formation.
Debuty Head
Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt
wiesenfeldt@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Christiane Wiesenfeldt received her doctorate from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 2005 with a thesis on the cello sonata in the 19th century and habilitated at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 2011 with a thesis on the Marienmesse in the 16th century. From 2012 to 2020, she was Professor of Musicology at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Chair of the Institute of Musicology). Since 2020, she has held the Chair of Musicology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Her research and publications focus on the music, confession and liturgy of the early modern period, music history as a history of reception, musical romanticism and concepts of Heimat, as well as phenomena such as the concept of the work and self-reflection in music.
Christiane Wiesenfeldt is editor-in-chief of TONKUNST, a full member of the Erfurt and Leipzig Academies of Science, deputy director of the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage (HCCH), a member of the editorial advisory board and scientific advisory board of “MGG online” and a freelance contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2022, she has headed - among other research projects - the Academy project “Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” and the DFG long-term project “Digital Liszt Sources and Works Catalog”. From October 2024, she will be spokesperson for the CRC 1671 “Heimat(en)”.
Scientific Managing Director
Dr. Nele Schneidereit
nele.schneidereit@uni-heidelberg.de
Nele Schneidereit has been Scientific Managing Director of the Research Council of Field of Focus 3 since 2019. From 2015 to 2023, she was also responsible for the scientific management and coordination of the CRC 933 “Material Text Cultures”. As a trained science communicator (Master of Science “Science Communication and Marketing”, TU Berlin 2017), she took over the public relations work of the CRC 933 (2015-2019). Postdoc in the philosophical subproject of the CRC 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense” at the TU Dresden with a focus on everyday morality, moral intuitionism, moral philosophy of the 18th century and Kant (2009-2015). Prior to this, assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy at the TU Dresden (2006-2009), doctorate in 2008 with a social philosophy thesis on “The Dialectic of Community and Society - Basic Concepts of a Critical Social Philosophy (Tönnies and Plessner)”, 2004-2006 funded by the Studienstiftung. 2004 and 2005 research assistant at the office of the National Ethics Council Berlin. From 1998-2003 studied German, Philosophy and Sociology in Cologne, Berlin and Santa Barbara, USA (Master of Arts 2002).
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