Monika Fludernik a native Austrian, is professor of English literature and culture at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.

Fludernik earned her doctorate at the University of Graz

University of Graz

The University of Graz , a university located in Graz, Austria, is the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria....

, Austria, where she studied with professor Franz Karl Stanzel

Franz Karl Stanzel

Franz Karl Stanzel is an Austrian literary theorist, specialised in English literature.After finishing his degree with Herbert Koziol in Graz and after his habilitation in 1955, he was professor in Göttingen. In 1959 he was offered a position as professor in Erlangen. In 1962 he succeeded Koziol...

. In 1992, she took up an associate profesorship at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

, and since 1994 she has been a full professor at Freiburg. Fludernik has held several temporary fellowships, at the Universities of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

, and Harvard

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, among other places, and she is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is a legal entity under the special protection of the Federal Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every field, particularly in fundamental research...

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Fludernik is renowned for her contribution to the field of literary theory

Literary theory

Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of...

, particularly that of narratology

Narratology

Narratology denotes both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. While in principle the word may refer to any systematic study of narrative, in practice its usage is rather more restricted. It is an anglicisation of French...

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Works

Besides being sole author of 5 books (see below), Fludernik has published more than 100 scientific articles and has edited and co-edited several volumes of books/special issues of scientific journals.

Books:

• Introduction to Narratology, London/New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Einführung in die Erzähltheorie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006
• Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici
  Gabriel Josipovici
  Gabriel David Josipovici FBA, FRSL is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright.-Biography:...
  
  ’s Creative Oeuvre. Frankfurt/New York: Lang, 2000
• Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology. London/New York: Routledge, 1996
• The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction. The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness. London/New York: Routledge, 1993

External links

• Monika Fludernik's Homepage