Researchers
The ZfL’s interdisciplinary projects have brought together a team of around 40 researchers with a range of backgrounds. Here literary scholars working in various traditions (comparative literature, German, Romance, Slavic) collaborate with cultural theorists, art historians, and media theorists, as well as scholars from religious studies, Jewish studies, philosophy, history, and biology.
Co-coordinator of the program area Knowledge of Life, project The Time Lapse as a Narrative Technique in the 20th and 21st Century
Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
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
Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar with the project The Opposite Sex: A History
Research team member in the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations
Research team member in the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Dissertation project The French Reception and Transformation of Pragmatism, associated research team member in the project Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature
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
Volkswagen Foundation “Freigeist” Fellow with the project The Philology of the Physicists. Textual Knowledge and Practices within the Academic Culture of Quantum Physics, ZfL Equal Opportunities Officer
Research team member in the project The Philology of the Physicists. Textual Knowledge and Practices within the Academic Culture of Quantum Physics
Research team member in the project Style. Past and Present
Dissertation project Scenes of Alternative Sociality in the Black Radical Tradition and Critical Theories
Research team member in the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, research team member in the key project Style. Past and Present
Research team leader of the project Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature
Research team member in the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Research team leader of the project Hermann Borchardt – Edition of Works
Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung with the project Disturbed Landscapes: Environmental Imaginaries in Palestinian and Israeli Contemporary Art
Acting editor to the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Research team member in the project Edition der Werke Hermann Borchardts
Dissertation project Metaanthropology. An Epistemic Poetics of the Ethnographic Form
Research team member in the project Aitiologies in the Reality Narratives of the Natural Sciences: On the Epistemic Function of Origin (Re)Constructions
Research team member in the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Knowledge transfer and communications, managing editor of the ZfL BLOG, managing editor of the podcast Bücher im Gespräch
Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
Research team member in the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Visiting scholar with the project Creativity and Computation: a History of the Mathematical Sublime
Research fellow with the project Post-Global Aesthetics
Research fellow with the project Soviet Dissidence and the Public during De- and Re-Stalinization
Research team member in the key project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Research team member of the project Commented Edition of the Correspondence between Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger (1908–1977)
Research team leader of the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Senior Fellow, project Annotated Edition of the Correspondence between Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger (1908–1977)
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
Research team member in the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Senior Fellow, editor of the Varlam Shalamov Edition
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
(On leave for a DAAD Visiting Professorship in Religious Cultural Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.)
Research team leader of the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellow with the project Gestures of Community: Reading Hölderlin with Benjamin, Landauer, and Rosenzweig
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, project Politics of Appearing, ZfL ombudsperson
Former director of the ZfL, professor emerita at the Technical University of Berlin
Heisenberg position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the project Digital Language. Linguistics, Communication Research, and Poetics in the Early Information Age
Research team leader of the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations