University of Münster
CRIS@UM
DE | EN
Profile picture of PD Dr. Pia Claudia Doering

PD Dr. Pia Claudia Doering

Current affiliations

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

  • Novella and Law in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period
  • The representation of religious and political hypocrisy in literary works
  • Literature in 17th-century France
  • Das klassische Theater in seinem politischen Kontext
  • Die französische Moralistik
  • Klassik-Rezeption im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Baudelaire und Proust)

Academic Education

since 05/2019Habilitation mit der Schrift "Recht und Wahrheit im Decameron. Die novellistische Analyse juristischer Erkenntniswege"
2004 - 2008Ph. D. Studies: French, Italian and Philosophy at Münster University; Dissertation on "Jean Racine zwischen Kunst und Politik. Lesarten der Alexandertragödie"
1998 - 2004Romance Studies, Public Law and Philosophy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Université Charles-de-Gaulle / Lille III; Magister Artium

Work Experience

since 04/2019Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben am Romanischen Seminar
since 09/2017Head of project "Criticism of religion in the Italian, French, and Spanish Novella of the Middle Ages and the early modern period"
10/2016 - 08/2017Postdoctoral research fellow at the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics in Modern and Pre-Modern Cultures”, University of Münster
10/2015 - 09/2016Assistant professor (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), Romanisches Seminar, University of Münster
09/2013 - 09/2015Postdoctoral research fellow at the cluster of excellence “Religion and Politics in Modern and Pre-Modern Cultures”, University of Münster, in the project "Between Religious Piety and Political Reflection. The Cognitive Function of Narrative and Allegorical Representations in Trecento Texts (Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio)"
04/2012 - 08/2013Post Doc in the DFG Research Training Group “Expert Cultures from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Centuries”, University of Göttingen
2007 - 2012Assistant professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin), Romanisches Seminar, University of Münster

Publications

Fake News im Mittelalter? Zur kulturellen Aushandlung von Falschheit in politischen, religiösen und literarischen Diskursen
Bubert, Marcel; Doering, Pia Claudia (eds.) (2026)
Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. doi:10.17885/heiup.1552
Conference proceedings | Published
Italo Svevos Triest zwischen Ökonomie, Kosmopolitismus und Kulturkritik
Doering, Pia Claudia (2026)
In: Moderne Sprachen, 68 (2024), 31-40.
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Aus Mangel an Beweisen. Boccaccios Infragestellung von Zeichen als Wahrheitsindikatoren im Kontext von Recht und Herrschaft (Decameron III,2)
Doering, Pia Claudia (2025)
In: Achermann, Eric; Speth, Sebastian (eds.), Vergeltung und Verfahren. Zur Verbrechensdarstellung vor der klassischen Kriminalliteratur, 137-149. Berlin: Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-70004-4_7
Research article (book contribution) | Published
Boccaccios Verhandlung von Normativität und Transgression in Casus und Novelle
Doering, Pia Claudia (2025)
In: Klinkert, Thomas; Oster-Stierle, Patricia (eds.), Die Novelle in der Romania: Kontingenz und Prägnanz, 87-102. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. doi:10.30965/9783846769751
Research article (book contribution) | Published
Lektüre in Zeiten von Pest und Corona: das Beispiel des Decameron
Doering, Pia; Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (2024)
In: Literatur für Leser:innen, 23(1), 9-23. doi:10.3726/lfl.2023.01.02
Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published
Show all publications (39)

Projects

EXC 2060 C3-28 - Flaubert and religion(s). Media forms and socio-political practices of religion in the 19th century
Duration: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Competing truths. Strategies and Reflections in the Changing Public Spheres
Duration: 01/06/2022 - 31/12/2024
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programmes
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
EXC 2060 C3-2 - Criticism of religion in Italian, French, and Spanish novella of the Middle Ages and the early modern period
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
EXC 212 B2-19 - BETWEEN RELIGIOUS PIETY AND POLITICAL REFLECTION: THE COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF NARRATIVE AND ALLEGORICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN TRECENTO TEXTS (DANTE,…
Duration: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Prizes

Preis zur Förderung des Wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses 2021
Awarded by: Universitätsgesellschaft Münster e.V.
Award given to: Doering, Pia Claudia
Announced at: 06/07/2021 | Date of awarding: 15/07/2021
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Jean Racine zwischen Kunst und Politik. Eine Untersuchung möglicher Lesarten der Alexandertragödie
Candidate: Doering, Pia Claudia | Supervisors: Westerwelle, Karin
Period of time: 01/10/2004 - 12/12/2008
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster

Habilitations

Recht und Wahrheit im Decameron. Die novellistische Analyse juristischer Erkenntniswege
Candidate: Doering, Pia Claudia | Reviewers: Bauer-Funke, Cerstin; Kannowski, Bernd; Langer, Ullrich; Leuker, Tobias; Westerwelle, Karin
Period of time: until 20/05/2019
Habilitation procedure finished at: Habilitation procedure at University of Münster