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Prof. Dr. Linda Simonis holds a Professorship for General and Comparative Literature at the Ruhr University Bochum's Faculty of Philology, specializing in European literary history. Her research focuses on literary and cultural criticism, myth reception, performance politics in early modern drama, and secret writings. She leads the subproject C03 'Metaphors of Everyday Life' within the DFG-funded SFB 1475 'Metaphors of Religion'. Notable doctoral advisees include Carina Reidick and Laura Frölich.
Her teaching spans decades, covering courses like 'Sustainable Antiquity', 'Dynamics of Religious Metaphors', and 'Metaphor Analysis'. She co-edits journals like Comparatio and komparatistik online, and has authored influential works such as Genetic Principle (1998) and The Art of the Secret (2002). Her research explores intersections of literature with science, religion, and media, including studies on apocryphal texts, inscriptions, and global poetics.
Key projects include editing volumes on 'Geopolitical Fictions', 'Poetics of the Inscription', and organizing interdisciplinary conferences. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary theory, addressing topics from Machiavelli's political thought to modern ecological poetics.
