Directors
The director of the ZfL is Eva Geulen, Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The deputies alternate every two years. Current deputy directors are the slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz and the literary scholar Katrin Trüstedt.
Director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin, research team leader of the key project Style. Past and Present
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, project World Fiction, Post/Socialist. Eastern European Literatures and Cultures and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, project Politics of Appearing, ZfL ombudsperson
Heads of the Program Areas
The projects are based in three program areas which are strategically developed and managed by experienced academics in collaboration with the directors.
Co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, Heisenberg position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the project Georg Lukács: An Intellectual Biography, research team leader of the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, project Politics of Appearing, ZfL ombudsperson
Co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, research team member in the key project Style. Past and Present
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, project World Fiction, Post/Socialist. Eastern European Literatures and Cultures and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe
Co-coordinator of the program area Knowledge of Life, project The Time Lapse as a Narrative Technique in the 20th and 21st Century
Co-coordinator of the program area Knowledge of Life, project Diversity: Concepts, Paradigms, and History and research team leader of the project Aitiologies in the Reality Narratives of the Natural Sciences: On the Epistemic Function of Origin (Re)Constructions