Christa Jansohn studied English, History and Archive Studies at the University of Bonn and the University of Exeter. She completed her MA, PhD, and ‘Habilitation’ at the University of Bonn.
Career
Since 2001, she has been Professor of British Culture at the University of Bamberg, Bavaria. Her work has focused primarily on the intersections between British Cultural Studies and older philological traditions, as well as on interdisciplinary approaches to these overlaps. She has made particular contributions in a number of different areas, including the reception of Shakespeare in Germany; D. H. Lawrence and his European reception; the relationship between literature and the history of science and medicine; the history of literary societies; scholarly editing ; and translation studies. Christa Jansohn has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz since 2005, and since 2011 has served as Chair of the Academy’s Committee for English Literature. In 2019, she was appointed Chair of the Commission of Literature and Culture at the Academy; and in July 2019, she was elected a full member of the section of 'Literary and Theatrical Studies' in the Academia Europaea. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen and the Prague Journal of English Studies.
Awards and honours
Christa Jansohn has been a visiting fellow of several colleges of the University of Cambridge, most recently Trinity and Churchill. In 2009 she was a visiting fellow at CRASSH, Cambridge. Among other research sabbaticals at US institutions, she has been a Fulbright Fellow at New York University ; an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin ; and an Eleanor M. Garvey Fellow in Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library, Harvard University. In 2004 she was awarded the Commerzbank Prize of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, for her “wide-ranging, many-sided, and remarkably fruitful research activities, which have advanced and enriched dialogue with Anglo-Saxon scholarship”.
Major publications
Kriegsende in Weimar 1945. Die thüringische Landeshauptstadt während der amerikanischen Besetzung im April/Mai 1945. Dokumente und Berichte, co-authored with Volker Wahl, pp. 376, including numerous illustrations and reproductions..
D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley: Übersetzt von Georg Goyert. Ed. by Guido Huss and Christa Jansohn on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the translator's death, with a Foreword by Christa Jansohn. ISBN-Nummer: Kindle : 9783944561530, ISBN: Tolino : 9783944561523.
"Bücher sind nur dickere Briefe an Freunde": Festgabe für Michael Knoche. 25 Jahre Bibliotheksdirektor der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek. Ed. Christa Jansohn und Freunde Michael Knoches. Münster: LIT, 2016. Pp. 265.
Shakespeare unter den Deutschen. Ed. Christa Jansohn with Werner Habicht, Dieter Mehl, und Philip Redl. Pp. 343.
Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents. Ed. Christa Jansohn and Dieter Mehl. Münster: LIT, 2015. Pp. 383.
Zu Pest und AIDS in der englischen Literatur. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2012. Pp. 106. for the online publication.]
Eta Harich-Schneider: Die Sonette William Shakespeares und die Lyrik der "Rekusanten". Erlebnisse und Übersetzungen einer reisenden Musikerin: 1941-1982. Studien zur englischen Literatur, 25. Pp. 492 + 32 Illustr.
Shakespeare without Boundaries. Festschrift in Honor of Dieter Mehl. Ed. Christa Jansohn, Lena Orlin, Stanley Wells, Pp. 397.
Shakespeare's World: World Shakespeare. The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Brisbane 2006. Ed. Richard Fortheringham, Christa Jansohn, Robert White. Pp. 436.
The Reception of D.H. Lawrence in Europe. Ed. Christa Jansohn and Dieter Mehl. The Athlone Critical Tradition Series: The Reception of British Authors in Europe. Pp. xliii + 367.
German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Christa Jansohn. Pp. 308.
In the Footsteps of William Shakespeare. Ed. Christa Jansohn. Studien zur englischen Literatur, 19. Pp. vi + 295.
Elizabeth I: Past and Present. Ed. Christa Jansohn. Studien zur englischen Literatur, 19. Pp. vi + 295.
Old Age and Ageing in British and American Culture and Literature. Ed. Christa Jansohn. Studien zur englischen Literatur, 16. Pp. 265.
Zweifelhafter Shakespeare. Zur Geschichte der Shakespeare-Apokryphen und ihrer Rezeption von der Renaissance bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Münster: LIT, 2000. 447 S.
Problems of Editing. Beihefte zur editio, 14. Ed. Christa Jansohn. Pp. vii + 250.
D.H. Lawrence: The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xl + 690. Part I: First Version ; Second Version.
D.H. Lawrence: The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. lxv + 488 . - Also published in "Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics".
William Shakespeare: A Lover's Complaint. Deutsche Übersetzungen von 1787 bis 1894. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Christa Jansohn. Mit einem Vorwort von Wolfgang Weiß. 238 S. + 4 Abb.
Shakespeares Sonette in der Übersetzung Dorothea Tiecks. Kritisch herausgegeben von Christa Jansohn. Tübingen: Francke, 1992. vii + 371 S.
Zitat und Anspielung im Frühwerk von D. H. Lawrence''. Münster: LIT, 1990. ii + 298 S.
