Martina King

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 martina.king@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 8672
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2608-0497

Öffentliches Thema "Literatur und Medizin"
Ko-Herausgeberin Handbuch Literatur und Medizin (erscheint 2026) link

Vorträge zu "Literatur und Medizin"
Ärztliche Fortbildung uni Luzern 3/2025 (MAS)
Ärztekanzel, Zentralkirsche St. Nikolai, Hamburg, 11/2025 (mit David Wagner)

Laufende Drittmittelprojekte
Interdisziplinäres SNF-Projekt 10.003.969 (mit Uni Lausanne, 2025-2029:) Der "Arztbrief" aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive, 1.8 Mio CHF
SNF-Projekt 50.070.101 (2023-2027): Medikale Räume in der Literatur der Moderne, 460'000 CHF

Professor
Medicine Section

PER 17 bu. 115
Ch. du Musée 18
1700 Fribourg
PER 17, 115

Biography

Curriculum Vitae und Publikationen

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Biography

I studied medicine and underwent medical specialist training as pediatrician; I worked as pediatric assistant doctor and as pediatric registrar from 1993 till 2010 at TU Munich. During my training as pediatrician, I studied Modern German Literature and Philosophy at the universities of Munich and Goettingen.

2008 PhD in Modern German Literature, title: Pilger und Prophet. Heilige Autorschaft bei Rainer Maria Rilke (Goettingen 2009); part time lecturer in German studies at the universities of Munich, Goettingen and Durham UK.

2010-2011 Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Glasgow University

2011-2014 Postdoc assistant (DFG scholarship), Institute for German studies, Bern University

2014-2016 Postdoc assistant, Institute for German studies, Innsbruck University

2016 ‘Habilitation’ at Berne University in both Modern German Literature and the History of Medicine; title: Das Mikrobielle in der Literatur und Kultur der Moderne. Zur Wissensgeschichte eines ephemeren Gegenstandes 1880–1930 (Berlin 2021)

2016-2018 Part time lecturer, Institute for History of Medicine, Berne University

2018 appointment as Full Professor in Medical Humanities (70%) at Fribourg University

2019: Twofold cooptation in the Philosophical Faculty at Fribourg: Department of German Studies and Department of Contemporary History

Since 2021: Co-editor of Journal KulturPoetik
Since 2021: Co-editor of book series Medical Humanities (Schwabe)

Research interests
• Literature of classical modernism and of the 19th Century
• Narratology of space
• History and epistemology of the medical discharge report
• Travel literature around 1830
• Cultural history of epidemics, infection and vaccines
• History of medicine and the life sciences 18th-20th Century
• Theory and history of authorship

Research and publications

  • Publications
    44 publications

    Das Mikrobielle in der Literatur und Kultur der Moderne. Zur Wissensgeschichte eines ephemeren Gegenstandes 1880–1930
    King, Martina (De Gruyter, 2021) | Book

    Pilger und Prophet : Heilige Autorschaft bei Rainer Maria Rilke
    King, Martina (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), ISBN: 978-3-525-20603-4 | Book

  • Research projects

Teaching and courses

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