Dr. Philipp Hunnekuhl

Adjunct lecturer
English Literature
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Academic Career:
from summer term 2022 onwards | Teaching at the Universities of Erfurt and Leipzig more information on his personal website (philipphunnekuhl.com) |
Since October 2020 | Adjunct lecturer at the IAA |
April 2020 - end of July 2020 | Guest professor (substitute for Prof. Rupp) |
August 2015 - until end of June 2019 | Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Research Foundation (‘Eigene Stelle’), University of Hamburg. Project: ‘The Miscellaneous Early Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson’ (under contract to Oxford University Press) Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Research Foundation |
2014–2015 | Associate Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldmiths, University of London |
since 2013 | Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, for the preparation and development of the Henry Crabb Robinson Project (http://www.crabbrobinson.co.uk/) |
2012–2013 | Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Goldsmiths, University of London |
2008–2012 | PhD, English Literature, Queen Mary University of London |
2007–2008 | Teacher, English and German as foreign languages, Inlingua Münster |
2006–2007 | MSc (with Distinction), English Literature, University of Edinburgh |
2005–2006 | Teacher, English and German as foreign languages, Inlingua Münster |
2001–2005 | BA, Joint English and History, Universität Münster and University of Hull, First Class Honours |
Selected Publications:
- (ed.), The Early Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- ‘Private Libraries’, in: Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women’s Writing, eds. Natasha Duquette, Susanne Schmid, et al. (2020). [invited, manuscript submitted]
- Review of The Testimony of Sense: Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt by Tim Milnes, The Hazlitt Review 13 (forthcoming, 2020).
- Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist, 1790–1811 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020 – link).
- ‘Henry Crabb Robinson and Edward Armitage’s Lost Fresco at Dr Williams’s Library’, in: The Lost Romantics, ed. by Norbert Lennartz (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 249–64 (link).
- ‘Literary Transmission, Exile, and Oblivion: Gustav von Schlabrendorf meets Henry Crabb Robinson’, Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 29.57 (July 2019), pp. 47–59 (link).
- Review of John Thelwall: Selected Poetry and Poetics by Judith Thompson, Notes and Queries, Vol. 66, Issue 1 (1 March 2019), pp. 148-9. (link)
- ‘Henry Crabb Robinson, Ernst Moritz Arndt, and William Wordsworth’s Convention of Cintra’, Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms 7 (2018), pp. 97–113. (link)
- Review of Coleridge and Cosmopolitan Intellectualism 1794–1804: The Legacy of Göttingen University by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, Modern Philology (2018). (link)
- ‘Hazlitt, Kant, and Crabb Robinson: 1806 and beyond’, The Hazlitt Review 10 (2017), pp. 45–62.
- ‘Constituting Knowledge: German Literature and Philosophy between Coleridge and Crabb Robinson’, European Romantic Review 28.1 (2017), pp. 51-63. (weblink).
- Review of Romanticism and Knowledge: Selected Papers from the Munich Joint Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, ed. by Stefanie Fricke, Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, and Katharina Pink, Anglistik. (Forthcoming)
- 'Survey of Hazlitt Studies, 2009-2014', The Hazlitt Review 9 (2016), pp. 55-64.
- Review of Charles Lamb: Eine Abhandlung über Schweinebraten, ed. and tr. by Joachim Kalka, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, New Series 162 (Autumn 2015), pp. 147-50.
- Review of Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796‒1817: Coleridge’s Responses to German Philosophy by Monika Class, Modern Language Review 109:3 (July 2014), pp. 780‒781.
- ‘Hazlitt and Crabb Robinson: The Common Pursuit’, The Hazlitt Review 6 (2013), pp. 13‒34.
- ‘Beyond Whist Sobriety: the Lambs, Crabb Robinson, and their Discourse on Literature’, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, New Series 158 (Autumn 2013), pp. 126‒138.
- ‘Reconstructing the Voice of the Mediator: Henry Crabb Robinson’s Literary Criticism’, in: Informal Romanticism, ed.by James Vigus (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012), pp. 61‒76.
- Review of Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany by Eugene Stelzig, The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 38 (Winter 2011), pp. 129‒133.
- Review of The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe, ed. by Elinor Shaffer and Edoardo Zuccato, The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 34 (Winter 2009), pp. 70‒73.
- ‘Imagination and Growth: Coleridge and Wordsworth in Germany (1798–99)’, MSc (by Research) Dissertation (The University of Edinburgh, 2007) link.
Scholarships and Funding:
2015–2019 | Postdoctoral Fellowship (‘Eigene Stelle’) of the German Research Foundation, University of Hamburg |
2008–2011 | PhD project studentship, Arts and Humanities Research Council and Queen Mary University of London |
2006–2007 | University of Edinburgh UK/ EU Master’s Scholarship |
2003–2004 | Erasmus exchange scholarship, Universität Münster / University of Hull |
Membership in Academic Societies:
Hazlitt Society, committee member (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hazlitt-society/about)
Charles Lamb Society
British Association for Romantic Studies
Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English (Weblink: http://www.qmulreligionandliterature.co.uk/)
German Association for the Study of English
Main Research Areas:
British and European Romanticism, especially Henry Crabb Robinson and William Hazlitt
English Dissent
Literature of the Enlightenment
Manuscript studies
Comparative studies
Literary theory and philosophy
Working-class and Chartist literature
Projects:
Editor, The Early Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson (Oxford: OUP, 2018) (link)
Special Subject Area Editor (Books and Writers), The Henry Crabb Robinson Project (http://www.crabbrobinson.co.uk/people/#special)
Assistant Editor, The Hazlitt Review (ISSN 1757-8299) (link to the Hazlitt Review)
Seminars and Conference Papers:
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21/22 March 2019: paper at the Anglo-German Colloquium, University of Cambridge: 'Prosody and morality: Herder, Wordsworth, and Crabb Robinson'.
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Visiting lectures and research seminars on the Henry Crabb Robinson Editorial Project at the universities of Lund, Sweden (16 May 2018) and Ghent, Belgium (11 October 2018).
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13 April 2018: paper at the symposium of the London–Paris Romanticism Seminar, École Normale Supérieure, Paris: ‘Alien citizen’, ‘unofficial statesman’, ‘Diogenes of Paris’: Gustav von Schlabrendorf and Henry Crabb Robinson's transmission of his work’ (http://londonparisromantic.com/?page_id=416).
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16 February 2018: joint seminar (with James Vigus), The London–Paris Romanticism Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London: ‘Critical Dissemination: Kant, Hazlitt, and Crabb Robinson’ (http://londonparisromantic.com/?page_id=50).
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30 July 2017, paper at the British Association for Romantic Studies’ biannual conference, ‘Romantic Improvement’, University of York: ‘Informal Improvement: Henry Crabb Robinson’s autodidacticism and its influence’ (https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BARS-2017.pdf).
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11 May 2017, paper at the international four-day conference ‘The Lost Romantics’, University of Vechta, Germany: ‘Henry Crabb Robinson on other lost Romantics’ (https://lostromantics2017.wordpress.com/ueber/).
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17 September 2016, Hazlitt Day-school, University College London: "'Thelwall the orator & W. Hazlitt the thinker': 1806 through Crabb Robinson's eyes".
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8 January 2016, paper at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford: ‘Literature and Religion in Crabb Robinson’s Early Diaries’
- 15 May 2015, paper at the one-day symposium ‘Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: Approaches to Genre, Form, and Reading Practice’ at Chawton House Library: ‘Building “castles of Reform – very airy indeed”: how Crabb Robinson fought the law’
- 17 November 2012, paper at the Charles Lamb Study Day, Swedenborg Hall, London: ‘Beyond whist sobriety: the Lambs, Crabb Robinson, and their discourse on literature’
- 9 June 2012, paper at the Hazlitt Day-school, University College London: ‘The “good hater” and “A Hazlitt-Hater”? Hazlitt, Crabb Robinson, and the truth of sentiment’
- 8 February 2012, one-hour lecture and subsequent discussion, Seminar in Dissenting Studies, Dr Williams’s Library: ‘Henry Crabb Robinson on Metaphysics, Science, and Literature’
- 7 September 2011, paper, funded by the German Exzellenzinitiative, at the conference ‘Informal Romanticism’, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich: ‘Reconstructing the Voice of the Mediator: Henry Crabb Robinson’s Literary Criticism’
Teaching:
University of Hamburg:
Summer 2020:
- ‘The Essay: short prose, amphibious form, cultural institution’
- ‘The East End of London’
- ‘Introduction to British Literature and Culture’
- ‘Literary theory reading group’
- ‘Transatlantic Abolitionism’
Winter 2018/19: Seminar II, "The British Working-Class Novel".
Summer 2017: Seminar II, "'No light, but rather darkness visible': Milton, influence, and intertextuality".
Winter 2016/17: Seminar II, "Hazlitt".
Summer 2016: Seminar II, 'Abolitionism and the anti-slave-trade campaign in British and American Literature"
Winter 2015/16: Seminar II, "Revolution and Reaction in British Romantic Literature"
Goldsmiths, University of London:
‘Sensibility and Romanticism’, weekly seminars and introductory lecture
‘Explorations in Literature’, weekly seminars
‘Literature of the Victorian Period’, weekly seminars
Queen Mary University of London:
‘Imagination and Knowledge’, visiting lectures on William Hazlitt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Reading, Theory and Interpretation’, weekly seminars
‘Poetry’, weekly seminars