Franz-Josef Deiters

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Franz-Josef Deiters (born 13 October 1964) is a German-Australian literary critic and theorist from Schermbeck, Germany.^[1] After studying German literature and philosophy he taught German literature at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) from 1993 to 2006, where, in 1993, he earned his MA, and, in 1997, he received his Dr. phil. (PhD). In 2004, he got his Habilitation in Modern German Literature. After visiting professorships at the University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt/M. (Germany), he moved to Melbourne in October 2006 where he has since been living together with his partner, the theatre director and author André Bastian. Deiters is currently Senior Lecturer in the German Department at Monash University.^[2]

Deiters' areas of research include the German literature from the 18th century to the present, literary theory, especially the theory of authorship, the cultural history of literary pseudonyms, the theory and history of drama and theatre, the intersection of literature and philosophy, the narratives of work as well as some aspects of media theory.

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Auf dem Schauplatz des "Volkes" : Strategien der Selbstzuschreibung intellektueller Identität von Herder bis Büchner und darüber hinaus. Rombach, Freiburg i.Br./Berlin/Wien 2006, ISBN 3-7930-9444-8.
Drama im Augenblick seines Sturzes : zur Allegorisierung des Dramas in der Moderne. Versuche zu einer Konstitutionstheorie. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-503-04921-5.
Denken/Schreiben in der Krise : Existentialismus und Literatur. (Co-editor) Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2004, ISBN 3-86110-379-6.
Die Geschichtlichkeit des Utopischen : für Eberhard Braun zum 60. Geburtstag. (Co-editor) Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2001, ISBN 3-86110-277-3.
Geschichtserfahrung im Spiegel der Literatur : Festschrift für Jürgen Schröder zum 65. Geburtstag. (Co-editor) Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-86057-654-2.
Das Politische der Philosophie : über die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung politischen Denkens.(Co-editor) Talheimer, Mössingen-Talheim 1993, ISBN 3-89376-021-0.

In addition, Deiters has published articles in scholarly journals as well as book chapters on German literature and thought, including Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich Heine, and Bertolt Brecht, the political theatre in early 20th century, the rhetorics of posters, Existentialism, the hermeneutic approach to cultural anthropology as well as the turn of literary studies into cultural studies.^[3]