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Christa Jansohn is Chair of British Culture at the University of Bamberg, a position she has held since March 2000. She previously served as Director of the Centre for British Studies at the same institution from 2000 to 2014. She is an internationally recognized scholar in Shakespeare studies, Renaissance literature, and D.H. Lawrence research. Jansohn is a lifelong Fellow of both Churchill College and Clare Hall at Cambridge University, and a full member of the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz since 2005.
Her educational background includes a PhD in English Philology from the University of Bonn (1990), where she also completed her Habilitation in 1998 with a thesis on 'Doubtful Shakespeare': The Reception of the Shakespeare Apocrypha from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. She earned her MA with distinction in 1985, specializing in English Language and Literature and Medieval History.
Jansohn's research spans numerous areas within English literary studies, with a particular focus on Shakespeare reception in Germany, editorial theory, book history, and D.H. Lawrence studies. Her work demonstrates a consistent interest in the intersection of literature, history, and cultural transmission across national boundaries. She has made significant contributions to the understanding of Shakespeare's influence in German-speaking contexts, including adaptations during the Nazi era, and has edited critical editions of D.H. Lawrence's works.
Her scholarly publications reveal a sustained engagement with textual scholarship, translation studies, and the cultural history of literature, with notable recent works examining Shakespeare's global reception and the relationship between literature and disease representation.
- Eleanor M. Garvey Fellow in Printing and Graphic Art, Houghton Library, Harvard University (2016)
- Lifelong Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge (2010)
- Lifelong Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge (2009)
- Full member of the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz (2005)
- Commerzbank Prize from the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz (2004)
- Multiple Fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2005-06, 1999-2000, 1994)
Throughout her distinguished career, Jansohn has held visiting positions at numerous prestigious institutions including the Folger Shakespeare Library, Humboldt University Berlin, University of Trier, and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Her editorial work on D.H. Lawrence's writings has contributed significantly to Lawrence scholarship, while her research on Shakespeare's reception in Germany has illuminated important cultural and historical connections between British and German literary traditions. She maintains active scholarly collaborations across Europe and North America, with particular emphasis on German-British literary relations and the transnational reception of English literature.
