Biography

Sabine Kyora, born in 1962, studied literature and history in Bielefeld and Hamburg; dissertation on "Psychoanalysis and Prose in the 20th Century", habilitation in 1999 with the book "Eine Poetik der Moderne" (Würzburg 2007). Since October 2002 Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oldenburg, from 2010-2019 co-applicant and from 2015 deputy spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group "Selbst-Bildungen", from 2016-2019 Vice President of the University of Oldenburg for Studies, Teaching and Gender equality. Publications on the literature of classical modernism and contemporary literature, on Arno Schmidt, Friederike Mayröcker and Paul Wühr, on methodological questions of literary studies and on concepts of subject and authorship.

Selected publications

Sabine Kyora (ed.), Subjektform Autor. Authorship stagings as practices of subjectivation. Bielefeld: transcript 2014.

Sabine Kyora/Wolfgang Lukas (eds.), Paul Wühr. Strategies of knowledge poetry. Munich: edition text + kritik 2014.

Sabine Kyora/Axel Dunker (eds.), Arno Schmidt and the Canon. Munich: edition text + kritik 2015.

Sabine Kyora (ed.): Alfred Döblin. Text+Kritik author volume 13/14, XI/18. Munich 2018.

Sabine Kyora/Dagmar Freist/Melanie Unseld (eds.): Transkulturelle Mehrfachzugehörigkeit als kulturhistorisches Phänomen. Spaces - Materialities - Memories. Bielefeld: transcript 2019.

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