Directors
The director of the ZfL is the literary scholar Eva Geulen, Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the associate directors are the philosopher Georg Toepfer and the comparatist Daniel Weidner.
Director of the ZfL
Executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin
Associate director of the ZfL
Professor for the Study of Culture and Religion at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin
Heads of the Research Areas
The projects are based in three research areas which are strategically developed and managed by experienced academics in collaboration with the directors.
Philosopher, head of the research area History of Theory and of the projects Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen. Lexikon zur politisch-sozialen und -kulturellen Semantik in Deutschland and Lazar Gulkovich: Writings on the History of Concepts (Edition)
in collaboration with Eva Geulen
Literary scholar, head of the research area World Literature
in collaboration with Daniel Weidner
in collaboration with Georg Toepfer