CV Stefan Horlacher

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (SLK)
International Relations and ERASMUS Officer of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (SLK)
Officer for Foreign Students and Researchers of Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden)
Member of the Board of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSW)
Chairman of the Board of Examiners of TUDIAS
Member of the Advisory Board of TUDIAS
Member of the Educational Advisory Board of the City of Dresden
Founding Member of the GenderConceptGroup
Former Board Member of the Centre for Integration Studies

Education

English and Romance Studies as well as Political Sciences at the University of Mannheim, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow/UK), and Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne). Research stay at Western Illinois University (Macomb/USA).

Research Interests

Postcolonial Studies • South Asian Studies
Gender Studies • Masculinity Studies • Transgender Studies • Intersex Studies • Queer Studies
Ageing Studies
Disability Studies
Deconstruction • Poststructuralism
Psychoanalysis
Memory Studies
Semiotics

Guest Professorships

Erasmus Guest Professorship: University of Bergamo, Italy (2022, 2023)
Erasmus Guest Professorship: University of Trento, Italy (2019)
Guest Professorship: University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2019)
Erasmus Guest Professorship: University of Wrocław, Poland (2016)
Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professorship: The Ohio State University, USA (2015)
Erasmus Guest Professorship: University of Malta, Malta (2011)

Research and Teaching Stays

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2018, 2023; DAAD)
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (2017, 2023)
Kent State University, Ohio, USA (2009, 2011; Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation)
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India (2008, 2010; DAAD)
Kent State University, Ohio, USA (2007)
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA (1995; Scholarship: DAAD/Federal State of Baden-Württemberg)

Research, Prizes and Funding (Selection)

2024 Joint research project with the IIT Bhubaneswar, India
2023 - 2027 ISAP/DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Funding: Student and Staff Exchange Programme with the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2021 - 2023 ISAP/DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Funding: Student and Staff Exchange Programme with the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2020 - 2022 Funding of the research project "Digital Gender: Verhandlungen von Geschlecht zwischen Neuerfindung und Auflösung im 21. Jahrhundert" (Free State of Saxony)
2021 Funding and organisation of the international conference and research project "The Art of New Alternatives: Nation-Building and the Creation of a ‘New Community’ in Contemporary Sri Lankan Art" (Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Science)
2019 - 2021 ISAP/DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Funding: Student and Staff Exchange Programme with the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016 Best Practice Award for Internationalization of Research and Teaching (TU Dresden)
2016 Teaching Award of The Association of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden (GFF) (with Marina Münkler, Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Joachim Scharloth, Lars Koch, Thomas Günther, Jochen Schanze, and Thomas Henle)
2016 Funding and organisation of the international conference and research project "20^th and 21^st Century Narratives of Masculinity" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University (DFG/Bielefeld University)
2015 Funding and organisation of the international conference "Borderlands/Edgelands" (TU Dresden)
2012 Funding and organisation of the international conference "Transgender and Intersex in the Arts, Science and Society" (British Council; Dreilinden gGmbH; Heinrich-Böll-Foundation; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden)
2009 - 2014 TransCoop-Project "Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies" with Prof. Kevin Floyd (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation/Kent State University)
2009 Funding and organisation of the international conference "Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature" (Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Science)
2005 Printing Subsidy for Masculinities: Konzeptionen von Männlichkeit im Werk von Thomas Hardy und D. H. Lawrence (DFG)
2004 Award for the best postdoctoral thesis on English and American literature in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (German Association for the Study of English)
1990 Award for the Maîtrise en lettres modèrnes (Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris)

Project Partners/Funding (Selection)

British Council • German Research Council (DFG) • Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) • Heinrich-Böll-Foundation • Dreilinden gGmbH • Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Science • Free State of Saxony • Federal State of Baden-Württemberg • ERASMUS • Center for Interdisciplinary Research/Bielefeld University • The Ohio State University/Max Kade Foundation • UBC Vancouver • Kent State University • Mannheim University • The Association of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden (GFF) • Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris • Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden • Erich Kästner Museum Dresden/Villa Augustin

Guest Lectures (Selection)

Linköping University (Sweden) • Queen's University (Canada) • Thompson Rivers University (Canada) • UBC Vancouver (Canada) • Kent State University (USA) • The Ohio State University (USA) • German Studies Association at Washington (USA) • EFL University Hyderabad (India) • R. N. C. Arts, J. D. B. Commerce and N. S. C. Science College, Nashik (India) • Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (India) • University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) • University of Zurich (Switzerland) • University of Lausanne (Switzerland) • University of Wrocław (Poland) • Museu del Disseny/Espronceda Barcelona (Spain) • University of Trento (Italy) • University of Malta (Malta) • RWTH Aachen (Anglistentag) • University of Bremen (FRIDEL) • University of Hamburg (FFK) • Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel • University of Mannheim • Cologne University of Music • Landesgymnasium St. Afra Meißen • Kultursommer Kaiserslautern • University of Kassel • University of Gießen • University of Saarbrücken (Anglistentag) • University of Bielefeld • University of Wuppertal • HAW Hamburg • University of Mainz • Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden • Chemnitz University of Technology • University of Regensburg • University of Bamberg • Agricola Forum Chemnitz • University of Erlangen-Nürnberg • University of Duisburg • University of Potsdam • University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) • University of Bergamo (Italy) • University of Warwick (UK) • Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria)