Person

apl. Prof. Dr.

Sven Strasen

Professor of English Literary Studies and Literary Theory

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Sven Strasen (1964), PhD, adjunct professor of English Literary Studies and Literary Theory at the Institute for English, American and Romance Studies at RWTH Aachen University. 

Research Interests:

Cognitive Literary Studies; Reader-response Theory; Empirical Literary Studies; Narratology and Stylistics; Emotions and Experientiality in the reading process; Narrative Construction of Identity.

 

 

Contact

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Publications

  • Strasen, Sven. "Cognitive Approaches to Narrative -- Mapping the Field." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 21-42.
  • Alber, Jan, Caroline Kutsch, and Sven Strasen. “Empirical Methods in Literary Studies.” Methods of Analysis in Literary Studies: Approaches, Concepts and Case-Studies, edited by Vera and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021, pp. 273-96.
  • Strasen, Sven. "Fiktionalität und Leseprozesse." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Fiktionalität, edited by Lut Missinne, Ralf Schneider, and Beatrix Theresa van Dam. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2020, pp. 297-323.
  • Strasen, Sven, and Julia Vaeßen. "A Cognitive and Cultural Reader Response Theory of Character Construction." Style and Response: Minds Media Methods, edited by Alice Bell et al., Benjamins, in print.
  • Kutsch, Caroline, and Sven Strasen. “Models of Experientiality: Or, When Russian Formalism Meets Embodied Cognition and Empirical Literary Studies.” Modelle in der Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft sowie ihrer Didaktik/Models in Literary Studies and Linguistics, edited by Sven Strasen, and Julia Vaeßen. Trier: WVT, 2019, pp. 55-80.
  • Strasen, Sven. "Literaturwissenschaftliche Rezeptionsforschung. Auf dem Weg von der Produkt- zur Prozessästhetik." Der Deutschunterricht, vol. 3, 2017, pp. 19-27.
  • Strasen, Sven. Rezeptionstheorien: Literatur-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze und Kulturelle Modelle. Trier: WVT, 2008.

 

Awards

Award for best 2nd thesis in Germany for the 2008-2010 period by the Association of German University Teachers of English Studies in 2010.

Appointed "RWTH Lecturer" for outstanding teaching in 2014.