{{Infobox academic | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1957}} | birth_place = Austria | alma_mater = University of Graz {{Small|(PhD)}} | discipline = Literary theorist | sub_discipline = Narratology | workplaces = {{Plainlist| * University of Vienna * University of Freiburg }} }}
'''Monika Fludernik''' (born 1957), a native Austrian, is professor of English literature and culture at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Fludernik earned her doctorate at the University of Graz, Austria, where she studied with professor Franz Karl Stanzel. In 1984, she took up an associate professorship at the University of Vienna, and since 1994 she has been a full professor at the University of Freiburg. Fludernik has held several temporary fellowships, at the Universities of Oxford, and Harvard, among other places, and she is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008 she is also a member of Academia Europaea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Fludernik_Monika|title = Academy of Europe: Fludernik Monika}}</ref>
Fludernik is renowned for her contribution to several fields of literary theory, particularly that of narratology, but also to postcolonial literary criticism, eighteenth-century aesthetics, and law and literature studies. She has also published on metaphor and, more recently, on otium (leisure) as part of the collaborative research centre on otium funded by the German Research Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Fludernik {{!}} Projects — Englisches Seminar |url=https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/sections/literature-culture/lsfludernik/projects/index |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=University of Freiburg |language=en}}</ref>
In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-15 |title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023 |url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250617103147/https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023 |archive-date=2025-06-17 |access-date=2025-09-08 |website=American Philosophical Society |language=en}}</ref>
==Works==
Besides being sole author of six books (see below), Fludernik has published more than 100 scientific articles and has edited and co-edited several volumes of books/special issues of scientific journals.
===Books===
* {{Cite book |last=Fludernik |first=Monika |title=Metaphors of confinement: the prison in fact, fiction, and fantasy |date=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-884090-9 |edition= |series=Law and literature |location=Oxford; New York, NY}} * {{Cite book |last=Fludernik |first=Monika |title=An introduction to narratology |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-45029-4 |location=London; New York}} * {{Cite book |last=Fludernik |first=Monika |title=Einführung in die Erzähltheorie |date=2006 |publisher=Wiss. Buchges |isbn=978-3-534-16330-4 |series=Einführung Literaturwissenschaft |location=Darmstadt}} * {{Cite book |last=Fludernik |first=Monika |title=Echoes and mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici's creative œuvre |date=2000 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-0-8204-4748-3 |location=Frankfurt am Main; New York}} * {{Cite book |last=Fludernik |first=Monika |title=Towards a 'natural' narratology |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-43250-1 |location=London New York}} * {{Cite book |last=Fludernik |first=Monika |title=The fictions of language and the languages of fiction: the linguistic representation of speech and consciousness |date=1993 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-45100-7 |location=London New York}}
===Edited books===
* Ed., together with Marie-Laure Ryan. ''Narrative Factuality: A Handbook.'' Revisionen. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. * Ed., together with Jan Alber. ''Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses.'' Columbus, OH: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2016. Paperpack edition. * Ed., together with Miriam Nandi. ''Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in British Literature.'' Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014. * Ed. ''Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor.'' Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics, 3. London: Routledge, 2011. * Ed., together with Greta Olson. ''In the Grip of the Law: Prisons, Trials and the Space Between.'' Frankfurt/New York: Lang, 2004. * Ed. ''Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments.'' Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 66. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. * Ed. ''Hybridity and Postcolonialism: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature.'' Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1998.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/academic-sections/literary-studies/lsfludernik Monika Fludernik's Homepage]. * Fludernik's works in the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?rfnId=rfin0&rfnGrpCounter=1&fn=search&=1&dscnt=0&mode=Basic&vid=BLVU1&fctV=Fludernik%2CMonika.&ct=facet&rfnGrp=1&tab=local_tab&fctN=facet_creator&vl(freeText0)=monika%20fludernik&dstmp=1571755058477 British Library Catalogue]. * Reinhart Koselleck Project "Diachronic Narratology" on the [https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/department/dept-admin-sections/literary-studies/fludernik_chair/current-projects/koselleck University of Freiburg website] and the website of [https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/404215440?language=en DFG].
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