Willie van Peer

Willie van Peer holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University, and is Professor of Literary Studies and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Munich, former President of IGEL (International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media) and of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association). He has been Visiting Scholar in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stanford and at Princeton University, and in the Department of (Cognitive) Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is also a Fellow of Clare Hall of Cambridge University. He is the author of several books and many articles on poetics and the epistemological foundations of literary studies, including Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding (London, 1986). He edited The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture (Routledge, 1988), together with Seymour Chatman, New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (SUNY Press, 2001), and together with Max Louwerse, Thematics. Interdisciplinary Studies (Benjamins, 2002).

Publications

Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies
Literary Education and Digital Learning: Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies
Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier, Vander Viana. © 2010. 254 pages.
Today’s popularization of modern technologies has allowed literature specialists to access an array of new opportunities in the digital medium, which have brought about an equal...