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Prof. Dr. Gunther Martens
Prof. Dr. Gunther Martens
gunther.martens@ugent.be
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3455-7910
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Department
Department of Literary Studies
Research group(s)
20cc - Twentieth-Century Crossroads
GermanLit - Research Group German Literature
GhentCDH - Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities
SEL - Studiecentrum voor Experimentele Literatuur
THALIA - Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance
Research Focus
Language technology
Literary studies
Research Period
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Research Language
Dutch
English
German
Additional tags
CLIL
Digital humanities
Disability Studies
German literature
Literary networks
Literary theory
Modernism
Narratology
Rhetoric
stylistics
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Exquisite defects. Detoxing the female literary genius at the crossroads of critical disability studies and neurophenomenology
(
2020
-
2024
)
Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics. A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes, 2007-2017
(
2019
-
2023
)
Staging self in the plays of cosmopolitanism. Language, authorship, migration
(
2016
-
2020
)
Dagelijks leven en crisis in literaire dagboeken. A multiperspectivische lezing van dagboeken uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog
(
2015
-
2018
)
The narrative construction of religious identities in German muslim fiction by authors from Iranian and Iraqi origin
(
2014
-
2018
)
Text theatricality. An integrated approach through narratology and performance studies
(
2013
-
2017
)
Text theatricality between self-narration and performance. René Pollesch
(
2012
-
2016
)
Gottfried Benn. “... up to the metamorphosis of physical man". A laboratory of modern lyric (1935 to 1956). Edition and textual genetic studies
(
2012
-
2013
)
(Post)romantic music criticism in the 19th century. Styles of criticism, exemplified by Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner
(
2012
-
2016
)
Russian-German identities and mobility processes in contemporary German-language literature
(
2012
-
2016
)
Metalepse in six selected prose works written by Günter Grass (1961-2010)
(
2011
-
2016
)
Third generation documentary literature. A study of the document as representational strategy in German literature
(
2011
-
2015
)
Theory of genre in Foucault
(
2010
-
2011
)
Refusal as literary motif in the works of Robert Walser, Wilhelm Genazino and Kurt Aebli
(
2010
-
2013
)
Nach dem Sollzialismus. 'Popstmoderne' und Dialogizität in der Wendeliteratur von Thomas Brussig
(
2010
-
2015
)
The experimental autobiographical novel
(
2009
-
2014
)
A rhetorical-narratological approach to figurativeness in narrative settings, applied to eventful 19C German prose literature (Kleist, Keller, Raabe)
(
2009
-
2013
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Women editors in the German-Language periodial press (1740-1920). Transnational emotional networks
(
2016
-
2020
)
Projects as PhD researcher
History and theory of the encyclopaedic novel (1750-2000)
(
2003
-
2012
)
Projects as researcher
Women and criticism. An empirical analysis of gender in contemporary Swedish literary criticism (2018–2022)
(
2022
-
2028
)
Publishing between profit and prestige. An empirical analysis of the Swedish literary publishing field in today’s age of digital production and globalisation
(
2021
-
2025
)
Publications
Most recent publications
De Greve, Lore, and Gunther Martens. “Sizeable Expertise? Measuring the Focus of Professional Critics and ‘fans’ in the Online Talk of Literature.”
Impressed by Reading : Lorentz Center @Oort Workshop
, 2025.
Rebora, Simone, et al. “Panel Talk : The Challenges of Digital Social Reading Research.”
Impressed by Reading : Lorentz Center @Oort Workshop
, 2025.
De Greve, Lore, and Gunther Martens. “Van Literatuurpaus Tot BookTokker : Hoe de Literatuurkritiek Op Het Internet Alles En Iedereen Uitdaagt.”
VOOYS
, vol. 43, no. 3, 2025, pp. 27–37.
Martens, Gunther. “AB FELL SINN IN.”
A Theater of Wonders : Performing the Act of Reading : For/Für/Voor Bart Philipsen
, edited by Arne De Winde et al., Grafische Cel (LUCA School of Arts), 2025, pp. 220–30.
Tereshko, Katja Ekaterina, et al.
“Impressed by Reading” Workshop Report
. Zenodo, 2025, doi:10.5281/zenodo.15527654.
Full bibliography
Teaching
2025-2026
Actuele problemen in de taal- en literatuurwetenschap (with Anne Breitbarth and Sofie Decock)
Vorlesung Ba2: Fabelhafte Rebellen
MA: Deutsche Debatten: Kulturgeschichte
MA: German Literature: Interpretation
Literature and Interdisciplinarity (with Bart Keunen, Marco Caracciolo, Lars Bernaerts)
Narratology (with Janine Hauthal, Interuniversitaire Master Literatuurwetenschap)
German Debates
German Literature: Text Analysis and Interpretation
German Literature II
German Literature V
Theory and Analysis of Narrative Texts: Recent Developments
German Literature: Genius Rebels
German: Contemporary Problems
German Literature: Enlightened Classics
Linguistic Proficiency in Content and Language Integrated Learning: German
