Baur, Jakob
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Research Associate
NameJakob Baur M.A.
Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies
Scientific career
Since 10.2021 |
Research Associate |
10.2020-09.2021 |
Teaching fellow for special tasks |
Since 10.2019 |
Doctoral student |
10.2016-09.2019 |
Doctoral studies in historical sciences |
03.2015-09.2019 |
Research Associate |
10.2013-09.2014 |
Tutor |
04.2013-09.2014 |
Research Assistant Cluster of Excellence 16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration", University of Konstanz |
04.2013-09.2014 |
Research Assistant |
08.-12.2012 |
Semester abroad |
2011-2014 |
Scholarship holder of the Max Weber Program of the Elite Network of Bavaria, University of Konstanz |
10.2011-09.2014 |
M.A. Cultural Foundations of Europe, |
04.2010-07.2011 |
Student Assistant |
01.-05.2010 |
Erasmus semester |
10.2008-09.2011 |
B.A. European Cultural History and German Studies (minor subject) |
Research interests
- Cultural theory and history
- Cultural-scientific emotion research and history of emotions
- Literature and (knowledge) history
- Shiver literature
- praxeology
Publications
- 2021: "Enlightenment in fear readings. Moral didactics, superstition criticism and the communication of anthropological knowledge in popular horror literature of the early 19th century" (contribution to the conference volume Volksaufklärung im Vormärz; submitted; to be published in 2021)
Lectures
2020
- Empfindsamkeit und ihre Kritik, master class with Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert "Aufklärung über Gefühle" of the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar and the Forschungszentrum Laboratorium Aufklärung of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2019
- Angstlektüren: Praxeologie von Angst und Schauerliteratur um 1800, research colloquium Prof. Dr. Lars Koch, TU Dresden
- Exhilarations from the night side of man. Popularization of anthropological knowledge in the entertainment literature of Friedrich Laun and Heinrich Zschokke, 10th Forum Junge Vormärz Forschung, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2018
- "It is not good that one fears what one does not believe."Emotional practices of fear and popular horror literature, 1800-1850, advanced seminar "Perspektiven der Frühneuzeitforschung", Prof. Dr. Lothar Schilling, University of Augsburg
- Enlightenment in readings of fear. An emotion-historical sketch of morality, reason and emotion in popular horror literature, 1800-1850, conference "Volksaufklärung im Vormärz", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg