Speaker | German Studies, Modern German Literature (MLU)
elisabeth.decultot@germanistik.uni-halle.de
Humboldt-Professor for Modern Written Culture and European Knowledge Transfer at the Institute for German Language and Literature of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Managing Director of the IZEA; Full Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences; Member of the Board of management of the Voltaire Foundation (University of Oxford); Co-director of the long-term academy project Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (BBAW); Co-director of the project Portal Der deutsche Brief im 18. Jahrhundert
Research focus: History of art theory, art historiography and aesthetics in the 18th-19th centuries with special consideration of the European transfer of knowledge; scholarly reading and writing practices from the early modern period to the present; German literature of the Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism in a European context; theories and methods of the transcultural history of relationships
Publicatons (selection)
Edited Volumes
- with Daniel Fulda (ed.): Die Bilder der Aufklärung, Paderborn: Fink 2024 (Laboratorium Aufklärung, 39)
- with Jana Kittelmann (Hg.): Gelebte Aufklärung. Studien zu Johann Georg Sulzers Werk und Wirkung, Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2024
- with Alessandro Nannini (ed.): Johann Georg Sulzer: Schriften zu Psychologie und Ästhetik, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2024 (= Bd. 2 of: Johann Georg Sulzer: Gesammelte Schriften, kommentierte Ausgabe in 10 Bden., ed. by E. Décultot, cofounded by Hans Adler, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014 ff.)
- with Nicholas Cronk (ed.): Inventions of Enlightenment since 1800. Concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2023 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Bd. 11)
- with Martin Dönike, Serena Feloj and Fabrizio Slavazzi (ed.): Die Winckelmann-Rezeption in Italien und Europa. Zirkulation, Adaption, Transformation, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2021 (Hallesche Beiträge zur Europäischen Aufklärung, Bd. 65)
- with Jana Kittelmann, Andrea Thiele and Ingo Uhlig (ed.): Weltensammeln. Johann Reinhold Forster und Georg Forster, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2020 (Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Supplementa, Bd. 27)
- with Daniel Fulda and Christian Helmreich (ed.): Poetik und Politik des Geschichtsdiskurses. Deutschland und Frankreich im langen 19. Jahrhundert/Poétique et politique du discours historique en Allemagne et en France (1789–1914), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2018
Articles
- Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856: deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle, in: Inventions of Enlightenment since 1800: concepts of Enlightenment, Lumières and Aufklärung, ed by Nicholas Cronk and E. Décultot, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2023, pp. 21-36
- Between art and history: on the formation of Winckelmann’s concept of historiography, in: Intellectual History Review, 2023, vol. 33, n° 3, pp. 435-456; published online: 06 March 2023
- „Do the People Benefit from Being Deceived?” A Debate on the Politics of the Enlightenment, in: The Historical Review / La Revue Historique. Section of Neohellenic Research / Institute of Historical Research, Bd. XIΧ, Nr. 1 (2022) (C. Th. Dimaras Annual Lecture, 2022), pp. 301-320
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