PD Dr. Bettina Lindorfer (Deputy Head of Chair)

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PD Dr. Bettina Lindorfer

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• Since October 2022: Substitute Professor of French Literature and Cultural Studies at TU Dresden
• 2019-2022 Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Freie Universität
• 2014-2018 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Romance Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2010-2017 Head of the philological-critical edition of W. v. Humboldt's linguistic writings at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (DFG project)
• 2012/13 Substitute professor at the Georg August University in Göttingen
• 2011-2012 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Romance Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2009-2010 Substitute Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Rostock
• 2007-2008 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin
• 2007 Habilitation at the FU Berlin
• 2005-2007 Visiting lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Free University of Berlin
• 1996-2004 Research assistant at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University
• 1996 Doctorate
• 1992-1996 Research Associate at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University
• 1991-1992 Research stay at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris with a scholarship according to NaFöG and funded by the DAAD
• 1991 Lectureship at the Institute for Romance Philology
• 1990 Start of traineeship (from 13.11. to 31.12.)
• 1990 First state examination
• 1985-1986 Licence franco-allemande at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III with a scholarship from the DAAD
• 1984-1990 Studied Romance Studies, German Studies and Philosophy at the FU Berlin and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III

Research interests

- Gender theories
- Dealing with non-European cultures and postcolonial theory
- Other languages and multilingualism
- (Verbal) politeness
- Text and sign theory
- Translation theories
- Francophonie or littérature monde en langue française (focus on Québec)
- Contemporary autobiographical texts/novels (Ernaux, Eribon, Louis)
- "French Theory" in relation to psychoanalysis
- Age (youth, but also later life)

Publications

1. monographs

• 2009: Punished speech. On the historical pragmatics of the Middle Ages. Munich: Fink.
• 1998: Roland Barthes. Signs and Psychoanalysis. Munich: Fink.

2nd edition

• 2017: Wilhelm von Humboldt: From the Languages of America to the General Type of Language. Paderborn: Schöningh (together with Jürgen Trabant).
• 2012: Age(ing) in the city. Viellir en ville. Linguistic and literary contributions from Romance and German studies. Berlin: Frank & Timme (together with Solveig Malatrait).
• 2002: Hegel. On language. Contributions to European linguistic thought. Tübingen: Narr (together with Dirk Naguschewski).

3. essays and unpublished lectures

• [Lecture]: Traversing the Commonplace: Barthes gegen Paulhan? on the occasion of the workshop "Kippfigur Gemeinplatz: Paradoxien der doxa", TU Dresden, on 01.12.2023.
• 2021: Review of Verena Weiland 2020: Linguistic approaches to discourse. A corpus linguistic approach using the example of "security and surveillance" in France. Heidelberg: Winter. In: Journal of French Language and Literature 2/2020.
• 2021: Fading between death and life. In: Peter Clar / Julia Prager (eds.): What remains of fragments of a language of love? Turia & Kant: 193-211.
• 2019: Review of F. Gadet: Les parlers jeunes dans l'Île-de-France multiculturelle. In: Journal of French Language and Literature 19/1.
• 2018: Codeswitching, style mixing or the end of language? Youth language in the films La journée de la jupe, L'esquive and Entre les murs. In: Andreas Blum / Jens Ruchatz (eds.): Multilingualism in Cinema. Current phenomena and conversations about films. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (series 'Intercultural Knowledge'): 55-70.
• 2018 Review of Roelcke: French in Baroque and Enlightenment. Studien zum Sprachdenken im Deutschland des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts & Roelcke: Latein, Griechisch, Hebräisch. Studies and Documentation on German Language Reflection in the Baroque and Enlightenment. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. In: Journal of French Language and Literature 127 /1-2: 189-193.
• 2018: Does Humboldt's philosophy of language emerge from the description of language? In: Trabant, Jürgen (ed.): Wilhelm von Humboldt: Language, Poetry and History. Paderborn: Fink: 151-162.
• 2017: Introduction to: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Grundzüge des allgemeinen Sprachtypus. In: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Von den Sprachen Amerikas zum allgemeinen Typus der Sprache, ed. by Bettina Lindorfer and Jürgen Trabant. Paderborn: Schöningh: 87-150.
• 2017: Verbalizing affects in the second language: Psychoanalysis in L2. In: Calderón, Marietta, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.): Gesundheit & Sprache / Health & Language. Vienna: Peter Lang: 47-63.
• 2016: Inner Language Spaces. Migration & Plurilingualism from a Psycholinguistic Perspective. In: Birgit Mersmann / Hans G. Kippenberg (eds.): Global Integration and Cultural Diversity. Humanities at the Threshold of Modernization and Globalization. (Series "Concepts for the Study of Culture"). Berlin / New York: de Gruyter: 211-226.
• 2016: Light and Warmth. Linguistic Conception of Wilhelm von Humboldt in the Scientific Work about America. In: Scientific Newsletter Woronesh 2, 13: 11-23.
• 2016: French youth language in films. In: Scientific Newsletter Woronesh 3: 17-32.
• 2015: Alla prima, d'un seul coup, immédiatement. On the experience of contingency in writing by Roland Barthes. In: KODIKAS / CODE. Ars Semeiotica 37, 3 / 4 (thematic issue: The Sensuality of Signs): 225-237.
• 2014: Myths of the sign. On the 'first semiology' in Roland Barthes. In: Mona Körte / Anne-Kathrin Reulecke (eds.): Mythologies - Myths of the Everyday. Roland Barthes' classics of cultural studies. Berlin: Kadmos: 67-83.
• 2013: Review of Jacqueline Amati Mehler et al. 2010: Das Babel des Unbewussten. Mother tongue and foreign languages in psychoanalysis. In: Psyche. Ztschr. for Psychoanalysis and its Applications. 67, 9 / 10.
• 2013: Review of Gerda Haßler / Cordula Neis: Lexikon sprachtheoretischer Grundbegriffe des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter 2009. In: Journal of Romance Philology 3.
• [Lecture]: Light and warmth. Humboldt's conception of language in the Amerikawerk. Lecture at the "Forschungssalon" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities(Salon Sophie-Charlotte), January 24, 2015.
• [Lecture]: Europe and the National. Wilhelm von Humboldt's exploration of European national characters in his plan for a comparative anthropology.(Salon Sophie-Charlotte), on 16.1.2014.
• 2013: Review of Kris Pint, The Perverse Art of Reading. On the phantasmatic semiology in Roland Barthes' 'Cours au Collège de France'. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi. In: Journal of French Language and Literature 123 / 2: 208-211.
• 2012: Un troisième tour d'écrou: The guiding function of the real for the écriture of late Barthes. In: Angela Oster / Karin Peters (eds.) Jenseits der Zeichen. Munich: Fink: 185-200.
• [Lecture]: Preliminary remarks on the language of science in Italy and Germany. German-Italian Cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Strategies and Topics. Lecture on 4.12.2012 in the context of the DFG Villa Vigoni-Package 2012.
• 2012: Review of Gerstenberg, Annette 2011: Generation und Sprachprofile im höheren Lebensalter. A study of French on the basis of a corpus of biographical interviews. Frankfurt / Main: Klostermann. PhiN. Philology on the Net 61.
• [Lecture] Le 'parler banlieue': Fin de la communication ou renouvellement langagier? Lecture at the University of Koblenz-Landau (26.1.2012).
• 2012: Introduction to: Ageing in the city. Linguistic and literary contributions. Berlin: Frank and Timme: 11-17.
• 2012: New approaches to the topic of language and age. In: Bettina Lindorfer / Solveig Malatrait (eds.): Ageing in the city. Contributions from linguistics and literary studies. Berlin: Frank and Timme: 19-42.
• 2012: Psycholinguistic findings on language in old age. In: Eva Neuland (ed.): Sprache der Generationen (Series: Thema Deutsch). Volume 12. Mannheim: Duden: 78-97.
• [Lecture]: Art and Knowledge. Humboldt's contribution to the conception of the Altes Museum. Lecture within the "Forschungssalon" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at the Salon Sophie-Charlotte, on January 21, 2012.
• 2011: Review of Jacqueline Amati Mehler et al. 2010: Das Babel des Unbewussten. Mother tongue and foreign languages in psychoanalysis. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. With an introduction by Tullio De Mauro. In: PhiN. Philology on the Net 55: 52-60.
• 2011: On the prehistory of the modern theory of speech acts: 'Sins of the tongue' in medieval moral theology. In: Gerda Haßler (ed.): Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Linguistics (ICHoLS XI), University of Potsdam.
• 2011: Review of Kabatek / Pusch 2009: Spanische Sprachwissenschaft. An introduction. Tübingen: Narr. In: Journal of Romance Philology 127,3.
• [Lecture]: Die Edition der sprachwissenschaftlichen Schriften Wilhelm von Humboldt. Lecture on the occasion of the visit of the members of the French Legion of Honor to the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Science (17.2.2011).
• [Lecture]: Every language is a world view. Humboldt's project of comparative linguistic research. At the Filmgymnasium Potsdam, on 13.2.2012, and at the von Saldern-Gymnasium Brandenburg, on 25.11.2011.
• 2010: On the European History of Polite Speech: From Medieval Didaxe to the Stylization of Polite Manners in the Renaissance. In: Claus Ehrhardt / Eva Neuland (eds.): Sprachliche Höflichkeit in interkultureller Kommunikation und im DaF-Unterricht. Frankfurt / Main etc.: Lang: 27-40.
• 2010: Language as a Mirror of the Soul. Guilt and Punishment in Dante's Concept of Language. In: Manuele Gragnolati / Sara Fortuna (eds.): Intersezioni dantesche: plurilinguismo volgarizzazione, soggettività. Oxford etc.: Maney Publishing: 122-132.
• 2010: Review of Sybille Große / Cordula Neis (eds.): Langue et politique en France à l'époque des Lumières. Frankfurt / Main: Domus. In: Romanische Forschungen 122 / 3: 430-432.
• 2010: Jacobus de Voragine. In: Graeme Dunphy (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden: Brill: 896f.
• 2010: Leonardo Bruni. In: Graeme Dunphy (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden: Brill: 218f.
• [Migration, Multilingualism, Dissociation: Lived space as a Factor of Linguistic Identity Formation. Guest lecture in the context of the seminar Globalization, Migration, Multilingualism, Literature at Jacobs University, Bremen (10.11.2010).
• [Reflections on the uncontrolled second language acquisition of Italian migrants. Paper presented at the interdisciplinary symposium Language: Learning, Acquisition & Communication, University of Rostock (5.6.2010).
• [Lecture]: Quoting - Repeating - Shifting: Roland Barthes as a victim of his own textual theory? Lecture at the IDS lecture series Fälschung und Ergänzung at the University of Rostock (10.6.2010).
• 2009: The concept of 'lived space'. Perspectives on spatial linguistics and the cultural studies spatial turn. In: Uta Helfrich / Verena Dolle (eds.): Der Spatial turn in der Romanistik. Munich: Meidenbauer: 57-78.
• 2009: Review of Dante, De vulgari eloquentia in the translations by Frings / Kramer (ibidem 2007) and Cheneval (Meiner 2007). In: Italian. Journal of Italian Language and Literature 61: 130-136.
• [Lecture] L'arbitraire du signe et la valeur linguistique (French). Rehearsal lecture at the Romance Department of the University of Heidelberg (16.1.2009).
• 2009: Parler, c'est assujetir. Roland Barthes' Overcoming the Language Wall. In: Ute Tintemann / Markus Messling (eds.): Der Mensch ist nur Mensch durch Sprache. On the linguistic nature of man. Munich: Fink: 149-166.
• [Lecture] La politesse verbale dans une perspective historique. Contribution to the section Verbal Politeness at the Romance Studies Conference in Bonn (27.9.2009).
• [Lecture] ... et dit paroles qui ne sont à reciter - Sprachliche Strategien im Kampf gegen die gotteslästerliche Rede in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Dresden Science Night, Rostock on 23.4.09.
• [Lecture] La barzelletta come testo breve - modalità e strategie della produzione; international conference on Testi brevi: Teoria e pratica della testualità nell'era multimediale 2 at the University of Augsburg (13.6.2009).
• 2008: With language against them. The technique of language jokes as an object of language reflection. In: Romance Studies in the Past and Present 14, 2: 153-176.
• 2008: Language games. In: Ingo Kolboom / Thomas Kotschi / Edward Reichel (eds.): Handbuch Französisch. Study - Teaching - Practice. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag: 349-353 (2nd edition).
• 2008: Sins of the tongue and eternal judgment. On the performativity of speech in the moral-theological discourse of the late Middle Ages. In: Jutta Eming (ed.): Blutige Worte. International and interdisciplinary colloquium on the relationship between language and violence in the Middle Ages and early modern period. Göttingen: V & R unipress: 53-74.
• 2008: Review of Martin Haase, Italienische Sprachwissenschaft. An introduction. Tübingen: Narr 2007. in: PhiN. Philology on the Net 45: 56-61.
• [Sins of the tongue; guest lecture at Jacobs University Bremen in the context of the seminar Language and Religion (8.10.2008).
• 2007: The City, the Craft and Untangling the Confused. Dante's view of linguistic diversity. In: Brunhilde Wehinger (ed.): Plural Readings. Studies on Language, Literature and Art. Berlin: Frey: 245-270.
• [Language and Violence: Linguistic Strategies in the Fight against Blasphemous Speech in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Lecture in the lecture series Language in Action, FU Berlin, June 2007.
• 2005: The Discourse of History and the Place of the Real. Roland Barthes' contribution
  to the linguistic turn in historiography. In: Jürgen Trabant (ed.): Language of
  History. Munich: Oldenbourg: 87-106.
• 2005: Incriminated speech. Traces of early modern linguistic thought. In: Paragrana. Historical Anthropology of Language 14,1: 133-152.
• [Speech and punishment. The punished tongue. Lecture during the IZ-Studientag Historische Anthropologie der Sprache at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities of the FU (Febr. 2005).
• 2003: Peccatum linguae: 1190-1260 and Later. Medieval Sin Treatises and the Practice of Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. In: Jean Godsall-Myers (ed.): Speaking in the Medieval World. Amsterdam: Brill: 23-42.
• 2002: On the relationship between language, thought and things in Hegel, Kojève and Barthes. In: Bettina Lindorfer / Dirk Naguschewski (eds.): Hegel: On Language. Contributions to the history of European linguistic thought. Tübingen: Narr: 7-21.
• 2002: Introduction. In: Bettina Lindorfer / Dirk Naguschewski (eds.): Hegel: On Language. Contributions to the history of European linguistic thought. Tübingen: Narr: 7-21.
• 2001: Tongues punish. Speech, Morality and Sanctions in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. In: FUndiert. Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Freien Universität Berlin 1 / 2001:122-127.
• 2001: Review of: Peter Burke: Paper and market clamor. The birth of the knowledge society. Berlin: Wagenbach. In: PhiN. Philology on the Net 18: 64-69.
• 1995: Language after Freud: the subject on the trail of its own history. In: Roland Galle / Rudolf Behrens (eds.): Historical Anthropology and Literature. Romance contributions to a new paradigm of literary studies. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 241-254.
• 1994: Polluted land? Thoughts on Elisabeth Roudinesco's Lacan biography. In: Aesthetics & Communication, 85 / 86, 188-192.
• 1993: Roland Barthes: Writing the Event. From total realism to electronic chance. In: New Romania 14, 325-335.
• 1992: The 'Barthes Affair'. French text theory put to the test. In: LETTRE international 17, 91.
• 1990: A calculated spectacle. Derrida's writing philosophy in the criticism of Henri Meschonnic. In: KODIKAS / CODE. Ars Semeiotica 13, 3 / 4, 245-258.

Translations of scientific and essayistic texts from the
French and English

• J. Laplanche / J.B. Pontalis: Urphantasie. Fantasies about the origin, origins of fantasy. (i.Dr.)
• J. Laplanche: Après coup / Nachträglichkeit (i.Dr.).
• Christophe Dejours: Mass psychology and ego analysis. In: Psyche. Ztschr. f. Psychoanalysis and its applications. (to be published in issue 11/2022).
• Jean Laplanche: A biological aberration in Freud's sexual theory. Giessen: Psychosozial (2021).
• Jean Laplanche: Myth and theories. In: Psyche. Ztschr. f. Psychoanalysis and its Applications 75, 8 (2021).
• Julia Kristeva: Prelude to an Ethics of the Feminine (Lecture IPA Congress 2019).
• Emilie Moget / Susann Heenen-Wolff: Analyzing the Psychic Happenings of Children Growing Up with a Female Couple. In: Rita Marx, Ann Kathrin Scheerer (eds.): On new paths to the child. Opportunities and problems of reproductive medicine from an ethical, sociological and psychoanalytical perspective. Giessen: Psychosozial (2019).
• Jean Laplanche: "Levels of Evidence" and "Against the Current" In: ders.: Sexual. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag (2017).
• Christophe Dejours: Untranslated messages in severe pathologies. In: Psyche. Ztschr. f. Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 67, 9/10 (2013).
• Jacqueline Schaeffer: What does the woman want? Or: The scandal of the feminine. In: Susann Heenen-Wolff (ed.) 2000: Neues vom Weib. French contributions. Göttingen: V&R.