{"id":1088,"date":"2017-11-13T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1088"},"modified":"2019-08-15T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:11:56","slug":"stahler-axel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1088","title":{"rendered":"St\u00e4hler, Axel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Axel-Stahler-687x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1708 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Axel-Stahler-687x1024-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Axel-Stahler-687x1024-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Axel-Stahler-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Axel-Stahler-687x1024-148x220.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Axel St\u00e4hler is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. He was coordinator of the international research project \u2018Fundamentalism and Literature\u2019 at the University of M\u00fcnster. At the University of Bonn, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in a collaborative research project on Jewish-Christian interrelations. His main research interests include intermediality and the formation of identities, especially with respect to Jewish culture and literature. St\u00e4hler has published widely on Jewish writers from the Anglophone and German-speaking diasporas and from Israel as well as on fundamentalism and literature, the eighteenth-century novel and early modern festival culture. Among his most recent publications are <em>The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction<\/em> (2015; co-edited with David Brauner) which was awarded the \u2018Association of Jewish Libraries\u2019 Judaica Reference Award\u2019 (2016); <em>Writing Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain<\/em> (2015; co-edited with Sue Vice); <em>Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews<\/em> (2015; co-edited with Ulrike Brunotte and Anna-Dorothea Ludewig); and edited collections of articles on Jewish Magic Realism (2013) and on Anglophone Jewish Literature (2007) as well as a monograph on literary constructions of Jewish postcoloniality in fiction on the British Mandate for Palestine, <em>Literarische Konstruktionen j\u00fcdischer Postkolonialit\u00e4t<\/em> (2009). His most recent book, <em>Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa <\/em>was published in\u00a02018. St\u00e4hler is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, of the ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Research Committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature, and of the international research networks British Jewish Contemporary Cultures and Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism (RENGOO; 2013\u201315). Funded by a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, he is currently embarking on a new book project on \u2018Jerusalem Destroyed: Literature, Art, and Music in Nineteenth-Century Europe\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axel St\u00e4hler is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. He was coordinator of the international research project \u2018Fundamentalism and Literature\u2019 at the University of M\u00fcnster. At the University of Bonn, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in a collaborative research project on Jewish-Christian interrelations. His main research interests include intermediality and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":582,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1088","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088\/revisions\/2898"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}