Janina Zimmermann

Biography

• Born December 1st 1984
• 2004 until 2010 studied Anglistics and Protestant Theology at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
• 2007/2008 taught at Reigate Grammar School with the PAD Exchange Program
• Since 2009 research assistant for the special research field 833, project A2 “Interpretability in Context”
• Topic of the graduate thesis “‘Myself – the Term between‘: Establishing Connections in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson“
• Since January 2011 she receives a PHD scholarship and works on the research topic “Formal Perfection as Evidence for Inspiration in Poetry and Poetics” at the interdisciplinary Research Training Group “Sacred Texts”

Publications

• The Two Coeval Come: Emily Dickinson an Ambiguity, in: LiLi 40 (2010), 98-124 (zusammen mit Markus Bauer, Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Carmen Dörge, Burkhard von Eckartsberg, Michaele Meder, Katja Riedel, Angelika Zirker)

Talks

• Emily Dickinson's "My life had stood a loaded gun." With Nadine Bade and Carmen Dörge at the 1st Tübingen Summer School on “Dialogues between Form and Meaning: Linguistic Methods in Literary Studies.” 03 September 2011.
• Problematic Referents in Emily Dickinson's Poetry. With Mechthild Schmidtpott and Carmen Dörge at the Workshop "The Language of Literature" at the Radboud University Nijmegen on 23 March 2012.

Seminars

• Proseminar II: Religion and Literature in the "Early" Nineteenth-Century. WS2011/12
• Proseminar II: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson. SoSe 2012

Projekt

• "Formelle Perfektion als Beweis für Inspiration in der Englischen Dichtung und Poetik" / "Formal Perfection as an Evidence for Inspiration in Poetry and Poetics" (Abstract)