PD Dr. Patrick Eiden-Offe
Germanist, Heisenberg position with the project Georg Lukács: An Intellectual Biography
CV
01-05/2021: Max Kade Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago.
since 11/2020 Heisenberg-Fellow (DFG), ZfL Berlin.
2020: Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg.
2019/20: Visiting Professor, Ruhr-University Bochum.
SoSe 2019: Visiting Professor, Humboldt-University Berlin.
2017-2019: Research Associate and Head of Research "The Formation of Theory and the Critique of 'Wissenschaft' in Early 20th Century", ZfL Berlin (https://www.zfl-berlin.org/project/the-formation-of-theory-and-the-critique-of-wissenschaft.html).
2017: "Venia legendi" German Literature and Culture, University of Duisburg-Essen.
2011-2017: Assistant Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen.
2008-2011: Research Associate, Center of Excellence "Cultural Foundation of Social Integration", University of Konstanz.
2008: PhD, University of Konstanz.
2007-2008: Research Coordinator, DFG-Graduate Center "The Figure of the Third", University of Konstanz.
2003-2006: Graduate Student in the DFG-Graduate Center "The Figure of the Third", University of Konstanz.
2002: "Magister Artium", University of Hamburg.
Academic Studies in German Literature, Philosophy, Art History and Musicology, Universities of Hamburg and Tübingen.
Fellowships
2021: Max Kade Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago.
2017/18: Visiting Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald (not taken for professional reasons).
2014/15: Visiting Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg, University of Konstanz.
2004: Research Fellow at Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University.
2004: Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore.
Research Interests
- German Literature, 16th-21st Century; Romanticism, Classical Modernism
- Historiography of Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Theory of Nature
- History of Theory/Historicising "Theory"
- Social History of Literature
- History of Social Sciences
- German Idealism as a Theory of Culture