Vita
Stefan Herbrechter has been Reader in Cultural Theory at Coventry University since 2009. Having studied English and Romanic Philology at Universität Heidelberg, Herbrechter gained his Ph.D. in English Literature at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University in 1997. He taught and researched at Leeds Trinity and All Saints from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, he was appointed Visiting Professor for Cultural Studies in Heidelberg, where he habilitated with the thesis entitled “Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Kulturtheorie” in 2009. Since 2013, he holds a Visiting Professorship for Critical Media Studies at the department of English at University of Malta. Moreover, Stefan Herbrechter is, together with Ivan Callus, chief-editor of a series of monographs (Critical Posthumanism). He serves as editorial board member of several journals and book series such as Culture Machine, CounterText and Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics. Additionally, he is a translator of cultural theory and philosophy from French into English (Derrida, Cixous, Stiegler).
Dated from 2015
Fields of research
Posthumanism: aesthetics and pedagogics; film and media science: science fiction, new and digital media cultures; cultural studies: gender theories, culture and technology, theories of texts; English, American and Anglophone literature.
Publications
Monographs
with Ivan Callus: Critical Posthumanism. An Introduction. Amsterdam/Kenilworth: Rodopi, forthcoming 2015.
Posthumanismus. Eine kritische Einführung. Darmstadt: WBG 2009 (English Version: Posthumanism. A Critical Analysis. London: Continuum/Bloomsbury 2013).
Lawrence Durrell. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity. Amsterdan/Atlanta
Edited Books
with Ivan Callus: Posthumanist Shakespeares. Houndmills: Palgrave 2012.
with Ivan Callus: Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009.
with Myriam Diocaretz: The Matrix in Theory. Amsterdam/Kenilworth: Rodopi 2006.
with Ivan Callus: Discipline and Practice: The (Ir)resistibility of Theory. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press 2004.
with Michael Higgins: Returning (to) Communities. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi 2006.
with Nicole Bracker: Metaphors of Economy. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi 2005.
Articles
“Posthumanismus, Subjekt und System”. In: Marc Jongen (ed.): Was wird Denken heißen? Kognition und Psyche im posthumanen Zeitalter. München: Fink (forthcoming 2015).
“Posthumanism, subjectivity, autobiography”. In: Subjectivity 5.3/2012, pp. 327-347.
with Ivan Callus: “What is a Posthumanist Reading?”. In: Angelaki 13.3/2008, pp. 95-111.
with Ivan Callus: “The Grammar of Deconstruction”. In: Simon Morgan Wortham, Allison Weiner (eds.): Encountering Derrida. Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction. London: Continuum 2007, pp. 137-151.
“Badiou, Derrida and The Matrix: Cultural Criticism between Objectless Subjects and Subjectless Objects”. In: Polygraph 16/2005 (special issue on ‘The Philosophy of Alain Badiou’), pp. 205-220.
“The Translation of Cultural Studies”. In: André Kaenel et al. (eds.): Cultural Studies/ Études culturelles. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy 2003, pp. 55-71.
“L’Histoire de Durrell”. In: Corinne Alexandre-Garner (ed.): Confluences XV. Lawrence Durrell. Paris: Université Paris-X-Nanterre, 1998, pp. 243-262.