Charis Goer is Assistant Professor of German Literature and Culture. Before coming to Utrecht, she worked at the universities of Bielefeld and Paderborn in Germany. She has received study and PhD scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, a junor fellowhip at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, and the postdoc-fellowship at the University of Paderborn. She is speaker of the interdisciplinary and international research group AG Populärkultur und Medien.

Research

Charis Goer's work focuses on German-language literature in its international, medial, and cultural contexts. She is particularly interested in the dynamics of exchanges and crossovers, but also the demarcation of literatures, cultures, media, and arts. Her areas of expertise cover an historically and systematically wide range:

• German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present (enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, Weimarer Klassik, romanticism, fin de siècle, post 1945 and contemporary literature and culture)
• literature and media/arts (literary descriptions of music and images, literary adaptations, theories of (inter-)mediality)
• popular literature and culture (poetics and history of German-language pop literature, pop and politics, theories of popular culture)
• interculturality and cultural transfer ((post-)migrant literature and culture, German orientalisms, Anglo-American-German cultural transfer)
• didactics of German literature (didactic aspects of slamand performance poetry, history and theory of the didactics of literature)

Teaching

Charis Goer has extensive teaching experience on BA and MA levels in various programs, mainly German literature, comparative literature, teacher education, and media studies. At UU she teaches in the BA German Language and Culture, the MA Literature Today, the MA German Language and Culture: Education and Communication, as well as in the nationwide MA MasterLanguage.

Books

Charis Goer / Katharia Köller (eds.): Fachdidaktik Deutsch. Grundzüge der Sprach- und Literaurdidaktik (Paderborn: Brill Fink / UTB 2023 [4th ed., 3rd ed. 2019, 2nd ed. 2016, 1st ed. 2014]).

Charis Goer / Stefan Greif / Christoph Jacke: Texte zur Theorie des Pop (Stuttgart: Reclam / Universal-Bibliothek 2013)

Charis Goer / Stefan Greif (guesteds.): Text + Kritik. Vol. 190: Rainald Goetz (München: Text + Kritik 2011)

Charis Goer / Michael Hofmann (eds.): Der Deutschen Morgenland. Bilder des Orients in der deutschen Literatur und Kultur von 1770 bis 1850 (München: Fink 2008)

Charis Goer: Ungleiche Geschwister. Literatur und die Künste bei Wilhem Heinse (München: Fink 2006) [PhD thesis]

Werner Keil / Charis Goer (eds.): "Seelenaccente" - "Ohrenphysiognomik". Zur Musikanschauung E.T.A. Hoffmanns, Heinses und Wackenroders (Hildesheim u.a.: Olms 2000)

Sören Eberhardt / Charis Goer (eds.): Über Richard Beer-Hofmann. Rezeptionsdokumente aus 100 Jahren (Hamburg: Igel 2012 [2nd ed., 1st. ed. 1996])