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 literary scholar Claude Haas and the philosopher Georg Toepfer.
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, head of the program area History of Theory
Associate director of the ZfL, head of the program area Knowledge of Life
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.
Associate director of the ZfL, head of the program area History of Theory
Historian, head of the program area History of Theory and research associate for the project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Socio-Political and Cultural Semantics in Germany
Slavist/historian, head of the program area World Literature
Comparatist, head of the program area World Literature and of the project Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks, Professor for the Study of Culture and Religion at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin
Associate director of the ZfL, head of the program area Knowledge of Life