Christa Jansohn was appointed to the Chair of British Culture at the University of Bamberg in 2001, a post she held until her retirement in 2023.
Her scholarly 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;[1] D. H. Lawrence and his European reception;[2] the relationship between literature and the history of science and medicine;[3] the history of literary societies; scholarly editing (with a particular focus on Shakespeare and Lawrence); and translation studies.
[5] In 2019, she was appointed Chair of the Commission of Literature and Culture at the Academy;[6] and in July 2019, she was elected a full member of the section of 'Literary and Theatrical Studies' in the Academia Europaea.
[14] 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”.