Dr Ricarda Musser
| Dr Ricarda Musser Library Science / History | |
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Selection
- 1. Research Interests
- 2. Current Projects
- 3. Publications
- 4. Teaching
- 5. Committees and Professional Associations
- 6. Curriculum Vitae
1. Research Interests
- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travel literature
- German emigration to Latin America
- Cordel Literature
2. Current Projects
Research Projects
German Travelers to Portugal and Their Travel Accounts in the Age of Maria II (1834-1853)
Improved infrastructures caused a boom in travel activity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. Nonetheless, the countries of the Iberian Peninsula remained a terra incognita for quite some time. With the end of the civil war in 1834 and Queen Maria II's ascension to power, a growing number of Germans published accounts of their travels to Portugal. This project examines the individuals who traveled to Portugal in this period, why they did so, what they described, and what image of Portugal they projected to reading audiences in Germany.
Immigration Guides as Source Material for Immigration History: The Example of Brazil
German immigration to the New World became a mass phenomenon in the nineteenth century. Prospective emigrants could gather information on destinations and opportunities from special societies and a variety of publications. A growing number of “immigration guides” were published from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Using Brazil as an example, our project will examine this previously neglected category of source material in order to find out what information immigrants received about countries and their inhabitants, what travel arrangements they were advised to make, and how the guides described life in German colonies.
3. Publications
Monographs and Editions
El viaje y la percepción del otro: viajeros por la Península Ibérica y sus descripciones (siglos XVIII y XIX), Frankfurt/M: Vervuert 2011 [Biblioteca Ibero-Americana, 141] (ed.)
Das Bibliothekswesen in Portugal. Historische Entwicklungslinien und aktuelle Tendenzen, Berlin: Logos 2001 [Berliner Arbeiten zur Bibliothekswissenschaft, IV].
Articles
Building up networks of knowledge: printing and collecting books in the age of Humanism in the University City of Coimbra,
in: Maria Berbara and Karl A.E. Enenkel (ed.), Portuguese Humanism in the Republic of Letters, Leiden: Brill 2012, 113-128.
Mulas, bondes y ferrocarril: las infraestructuras de viaje en el Imperio. Miradas alemanas hacia Brasil,
in: Projeto História. Revista do Programa de Estudos de Pós-Graduação em História, 42,2011, 213-232.
Brasilianische Studierende am Leipziger Konservatorium 1847-1914,
in: Martius-Staden-Jahrbuch, 58, 2011, 153-164.
„There are public libraries in Lisbon, which are by no means so bad as some travellers would describe them.“ European travellers visiting Portugues libraries from 1760 to 1850,
in: Ricarda Musser (ed.), El viaje y la percepción del otro: viajeros por la Península Ibérica y sus descripciones (siglos XVIII y XIX), Frankfurt/M: Vervuert 2011, 121-135.
"Deutschlandbilder - Lateinamerikabilder. Die beiden deutschen Staaten und Lateinamerika (1949-1990)."
Jahrbuch der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, XLV, (2010): 397-407 (co-authored with Peter Birle).
"Mehr als Macao: China in den portugiesischen Kulturzeitschriften Brasil - Portugal und O Occidente (1899-1901)."
In Perspektiven der Modernisierung. Die Pariser Weltausstellung, die Arbeiterbewegung, das koloniale China in europäischen und amerikanischen Kulturzeitschriften um 1900, edited by Heinrich Detering and Ulrich Mölk, 125-137, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010.
"Gifts and Exchanges in the Ibero-American Institute Berlin."
SALALM Newsletter, XXXVII, 2, (2009): 49.
"Zwischen Volkserzählung und Journalismus. Die brasilianische Literatura de Cordel."
Tópicos, 48, 2, (2009): 61.
In Der Klassizismus auf der Iberischen Halbinsel, edited by Christoph Müller, 80-90, Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut 2008 [ibero-online.de, 7].
"Uma ponte entre os mundos: políticas do Instituto Ibero-Americano para o intercâmbio científico e cultural com a América Latina."
In Integrar: 2° Congresso Internacional de Arquivos, Bibliotecas, Centros de Documentação e Museus, 185-191, São Paulo: FEBAB, 2006.
"Attendendo aos excepcionaes merecimentos...". O caminho das mulheres em Portugal à universidade."
In Dona Carolina Michaelis e os estudos de Filologia Portuguesa, edited by Ulrike Mühlschlegel, 45-57, Frankfurt/M: TFM, 2004.
"De cómo la Donazela Teodora atravesó el mar, se casó con un cangaçeiro y finalmente descubrió la cibernética en São Paulo. La literatura de cordel brasileña como medio de masas."
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, II, 6, (2002): 143-160 (co-authored with Ulrike Mühlschlegel).
"Zum Projekt: Erarbeitung von Systemstellen für die Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung innerhalb der Regensburger Verbundklassifikation"
ZiF Bulletin, 18, (1999): 111-121.
"Die Frau im Lebensraum des Mannes... Zur Entstehung einer Datenbank."
ZiF Bulletin, 15, (1997): 151-154 (co-authored with Petra Gibbösch and Hannah Lotte Lund).
"Ein Thesaurus für Frauenhäuser und Frauenberatungsstellen. Die Entwicklung eines Ordnungsmittels und Nachschlagewerkes."
In Zukunft durch Information. Deutscher Dokumentartag, edited by Wolfram Neubauer, 107-121, Frankfurt/M.: DGD, 1995 (co-authored with Astrid Nickel).
Encyclopedia Articles, Reviews, etc.
"Venezuela."
In Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens. 2. rev. ed., Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2008.
"Adèle Toussaint-Samson: A Parisian in Brazil. The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Wilmington: Scholarly Ressources 2001 [Latin American Silhouettes]."
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, VII, 25, (2007): 319-320.
"Alexandra Lübcke. "Welch Unterschied zwischen Europa und hier... Diskurstheoretische Überlegungen zu Nation, Auswanderung und kultureller Geschlechteridentität anhand von Briefen deutscher Chileauswanderinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Frankf
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, V, 18, (2005): 301-302.
4. Teaching
Since 1998: regular courses at the Department of History, the Department of Romance Studies and the interdisciplinary “GenderStudies” program at Humboldt University, Berlin
5. Committees and Professional Associations
Professional Associations
- Deutscher Lusitanistenverband (German Association of Portuguese Studies)
- BRASA (Brazilian Studies Association)
- Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare (Association of German Librarians)
- SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials)
6. Curriculum Vitae
Since 2007 | Director of the Media Department in the library of the Ibero-American Institute, country specialist for Brazil, Chile and Portugal |
2003 - 2006 | Deputy director of the Media Department in the library of the Ibero-American Institute, country specialist for Chile, Portugal and Venezuela |
02/ 2003 | Examination at the Bayerische Bibliotheksschule (Bavarian Library School), Munich, for senior-level service at research libraries |
2001 - 2003 | Library trainee at the Ibero-American Institute |
02/ 2001 | Received Ph.D. from Humboldt University, Berlin. Dissertation: "Das Bibliothekswesen in Portugal: Historische Entwicklungslinien und aktuelle Tendenzen" ("The Library System in Portugal: Historical Lines of Development and Current Trends") |
1997 - 2000 | Research associate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's Research at Humboldt University, Berlin, collaboration on the project "Erarbeitung von Systemstellen für die Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung innerhalb der Regensburger Verbundklassifikation und Neusystematisierung der Bestände der Universitätsbibliothek" ("Developing Classification Numbers for Women's and Gender Research in the Regensburg Classification Scheme and the New Classification System for University Library Collections") |
1996 | Fee-based staff member in the Design Department of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, analyzed designers' information needs and behavior |
1995 - 1997 | Research assistant at the university library of the Chemnitz University of Technology, fields: indexing and acquisitions |
1995 | Research fellow in the Berlin Senate's Department of Labor and Women's Affairs, collaboration on the project "Ein Thesaurus für Frauenhäuser und Frauenberatungsstellen in den Neuen Bundesländern: Die Entwicklung eines Ordnungsmittels- und Nachschlagewerks" ("A Thesaurus for Women's Shelters and Counseling Centers in the New Federal States of Germany: Developing an Organizational Tool and Reference Work") |
1988 - 1994 | Majored in library science, Portuguese studies and psychology at Humboldt University, Berlin, awarded Magistra Atrium (master's degree) |