Prof. Dr. Jens Martin Gurr
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften
Institut für Anglophone Studien
Lehrstuhl British and Anglophone Literature and Culture
Beteiligung in den Forschungsfeldern
Forschungsthemen
- Urban Literary and Cultural Studies
- Theory and Methods of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Urban Research
- Narratives and Scripts in Urban Development
- Urban Complexity Research
- Representations of Urban Complexity
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Gurr, J. M. (2020): Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City. New York/London: Routledge, 2020 [open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111009]
Gurr, J. M.; Schneider, U. (2017): Strategien zur Bewältigung urbaner Komplexität: Zum Zusammenwirken visueller, verbaler und quantitativer Modelle. In: Koschorke, A. (Ed.): Komplexität und Einfachheit: Internationales literaturwissenschaftliches Symposium der DFG. Stuttgart.
Buchenau, B.; Gurr, J. M. (2016): City Scripts: Urban American Studies and the Conjunction of Textual Strategies and Spatial Processes. In: Sattler, J. (Ed.): Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations. Bielefeld: 395-420.
Gurr, J. M. (2015): The Modernist Poetics of Urban Memory and the Structural Analogies between 'City' and 'Text': The Waste Land and Benjamin's Arcades Project. In: Freitag, K. (Ed.): Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry. Newcastle: 21-37.
Gurr, J. M. (2014): 'Urban Complexity' from a Literary and Cultural Studies Perspective: Key Cultural Dimensions and the Challenges of 'Modeling'. In: Walloth, C.; Gurr, J.; Schmidt, J. (Ed.): Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling. Heidelberg, New York: 133-150.