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 Historian Henning Trüper.
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
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, research team leader of the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
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.
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, research team leader of the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, project Politics of Appearing
Co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, project Literature in Georgia. Between Small Literature and World Literature
(On leave during the winter and summer semesters 2022/2023, acting professor at the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz.)
Co-coordinator of the program area World Literature (currently represented by Zaal Andronikashvili), 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
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