Directors
The director of the ZfL is Eva Geulen, Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her current deputies are the germanist and comparatist Claude Haas and the slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz.
Director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Humanities Centers Berlin e.V. (GWZ), member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Professor of European History of Culture and Knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu 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, 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 and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe
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.
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
Co-coordinator of the program area History of Theory, project Politics of Appearing, ZfL ombudsperson (currently on parental leave)
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, 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 and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe
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 and research team leader of the project Aitiologies in the Reality Narratives of the Natural Sciences: On the Epistemic Function of Origin (Re)Constructions