Martina King

Full professor, chair of Medical Humanities 

Biography

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
    43 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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