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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• since 2007: Full Professor for modern German literature, University of Halle-Wittenberg 2007-20: Managing Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg
• since 2010: Director of Master Program “Cultures of the Enlightenment”
• 2005-06: Research Associate, University of Jena
• 2003-07: Assistant Professor, University of Cologne
• 2003: Professorial dissertation (Habilitation für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft)
• 1998-2003: Research Associate, University of Cologne
• 1995-98: Research Assistant, University of Cologne
• 1995: Ph.D., University of Cologne
• 1986-91: Study of German philology, historical sciences and pedagogy, University of Cologne

VISITING POSITIONS

• 2023: professeur invité, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris
• 2018: chercheur invité, École normale superieure (ENS) de Lyon
• 2014: Max Kade visiting professorship, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
• 2013: visiting professor, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Paris
• 1999: visiting lecturer, Central European University, Budapest
• 1997: short-term lectureship, Charles University, Prague

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES (selection)

• since 2023: President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS)
• since 2020: Chair of the inter-academic commission accompanying the “Propyläen – Goethes Biographica” project, funded by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
• 2019-23: Second Vice-President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS)
• since 2016: Member of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig
• 2015-19: Elected member of the executive committee of the ISECS
• 2010-14: President of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts – DGEJ)
• 2008-10: Board Member of the DGEJ

AWARDS

• 2023: Senior Fellowship of the Alfried Krupp Foundation at the Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald in spring/summer 2024
• 2005: Award Recipient, Excellence Competition (for Northrhine-Westfalia) “The Role of Humanities in Shaping Future Prospects”
• 1998: Habilitation Scholarship, DFG
• 1992-95: Ph.D. Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

THIRD-PARTY FUNDED PROJECTS

• since 2023: “Co-director of the long-term project “PROPYLÄEN. Forschungsplattform zu Goethes Biographica. Briefwechsel, Tagebücher, Begegnungen und Gespräche. Chronologie. Quellen. Recherche. Fokus”, funded by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (with A. Bohnenkamp-Renken, Chr. Hain)
• 2012-2014: Poétique et politique du récit historique (with E. Décultot, Chr. Helmreich, J. Le Rider, J. Süßmann) (Centre interdisciplinaire d'etudes et de recherches sur l'Allemagne, Paris)
• 2010-2019: Edition sämtlicher Briefe von und an Christian Thomasius (with F. Grunert) (DFG)
• 2010-2013: Erschließung und Digitalisierung des Verlagsarchivs Gebauer-Schwetschke (with Ch. Haug) (DFG)

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