Patrides Lecture 2014

Speaker: Professor Andreas Höfele

Andreas Höfele is a writer and Professor of English Philology at the University of Munich. His first book The valley was published in 1975.

Andreas studied English language and literature , German literature, art history and theatre studies in Frankfurt am Main and Munich and in 1984 was appointed to a lecturship at Munich University.In 1985 he was visiting professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , USA . From 1986 to 1992 he was Professor of Theater at the University of Munich. In 1992 he was appointed a Chair of English at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2000, he has held the Chair of English Literature (focus on Shakespeare and the early modern period) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich). From October 2008 to September 2010 he held a Research Professorship.

He is a member of the board of the German Shakespeare Society and was its president 2002-2011. He has published a number of literary works, and is Associate Editor of Poetica. 

Publications:

• Stage, Stake and Scaffold. Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre. Oxford, 2011.
• Abweg, narrative, weissbooks.w , Frankfurt am Main 2008
• Der Spitzel (The spy), novel, Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Tod in Tanger (Death in Tangier), novel, Kellner Verlag, Hamburg 1990
• Jugendliebe (Puppy Love), novel, Piper Verlag , Munich, Zurich 1980
• Die Heimsuchung des Assistenten Jung (The Visitation of the wizard Jung), narrative, Piper Verlag, Munich, Zurich 1978
• Das Tal (The valley), novel, Piper Verlag, Munich, Zurich 1975

C. A. (Dinos) Patrides was among the staff of the English Department at York University from 1964 to 1978; he became a professor before leaving for the University of Michigan, where he met his untimely death in 1986. He was a scholar of international distinction, his chief works being "Milton and the Christian Tradition", "The Grand Design of God", and "Premises and Motifs in Renaissance
Thought and Literature".  He also produced editions of Donne, Herbert, and Sir Thomas Browne, but Milton remained his chief love in seventeenth-century literature.
The Patrides Memorial Lecture was the inspiration of Hermione Lee, and was set up in 1988 as a collaboration between the Department of English & Related Literature and Langwith College.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Treehouse, First Floor, Berrick Saul

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