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Angela Esterhammer is a Professor at Western University, with expertise in British, German, and European Romanticism and nineteenth-century culture. Her research emphasizes performativity and performance studies, drawing on speech act theory and philosophies of language. She has led significant academic initiatives, including founding Western University's graduate program in Comparative Literature and the University of Zurich's PhD program in English and American Literary Studies.
Her scholarly work explores Romantic poetry (e.g., Blake, Coleridge, Hölderlin) and fiction (e.g., Scott, Kleist, Staël), with a focus on improvisation, spontaneity, orality, and gender. She has authored influential books like Creating States, The Romantic Performative, and Print and Performance in the 1820s, and maintains the database 'The Improvisation of Poetry, 1750-1850.'
She has held leadership roles as Founding Member of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Past President of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, and General Editor of The Works of John Galt, a 20-volume critical edition project.
Notable honors include the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the Polanyi Prize for Literature, and fellowships from Academia Europaea and the Royal Society of Canada.
