Researchers
The ZfL’s interdisciplinary projects have brought together a team of around 40 researchers with a range of backgrounds. Here literary scholars working in various traditions (comparative literature, German, Romance, Slavic) collaborate with cultural theorists, art historians, and media theorists, as well as scholars from religious studies, Jewish studies, philosophy, history, and biology.
Co-coordinator of the program area Knowledge of Life, project The Time Lapse as a Narrative Technique in the 20th and 21st Century
Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
Walter Benjamin position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the project Multidirectional Memory: Brazilian Fictional Literature on the Holocaust and the Military Dictatorship
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
Associated researcher, dissertation project Blumenberg and Psychoanalysis (Freud, Ferenczi, Klein)
Research team member in the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations
Associated researcher, dissertation project The French Reception and Transformation of Pragmatism
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
Volkswagen Foundation “Freigeist” Fellow with the project The Philology of the Physicists. Textual Knowledge and Practices within the Academic Culture of Quantum Physics, ZfL Equal Opportunities Officer
Research team member in the project The Philology of the Physicists. Textual Knowledge and Practices within the Academic Culture of Quantum Physics
Research team member in the project Style. Past and Present
Associated researcher, dissertation project Scenes of Alternative Sociality in the Black Radical Tradition and Critical Theories
Research team member in the project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Deputy director of the ZfL, co-coordinator of the program area World Literature, research team member in the key project Style. Past and Present
Research team leader of the project Hermann Borchardt – Edition of Works
Research team member in the project The Philology of the Physicists. Textual Knowledge and Practices within the Academic Culture of Quantum Physics
Acting editor to the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Associated researcher in the program area Knowledge of Life
Research fellow with the project Receptions of Antigone: Death, Life and Gender in Hegel and Butler
Research team member in the project Aitiologies in the Reality Narratives of the Natural Sciences: On the Epistemic Function of Origin (Re)Constructions
Dissertation project Composition and Community: The Extra-Musical Imagination of Polyphony 1800/1900/1950
Senior fellow, research team member in the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Knowledge transfer and communications, managing editor of the ZfL BLOG and the podcast Bücher im Gespräch
Associated researcher, project Exploration of the Personal Archive of Hildegard Brenner, Literary Scholar, Cultural Historian, and Editor
Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
Research team member in the project The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe
Research team member in the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Associated researcher, project Marx in France. The Self-Determination of French Theory (1945–1995)
Research fellow with the project Soviet Dissidence and the Public during De- and Re-Stalinization
Research team member in the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations
Research team member in the key project Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800
Research team leader of the key project The 20th Century in Basic Concepts. A Dictionary of Historical Semantics in Germany
Senior Fellow, project Annotated Edition of the Correspondence between Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger (1908–1977)
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
Project Strategies of Critique. A Systematic Reconstruction of the Debate Surrounding documenta fifteen
Senior Fellow, editor of the Varlam Shalamov Edition
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
(On leave for a DAAD Visiting Professorship in Religious Cultural Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.)
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, ZfL ombudsperson (currently on parental leave)
Research team member in the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations
Former director of the ZfL, professor emerita at the Technical University of Berlin
Heisenberg position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the project Digital Language. Linguistics, Communication Research, and Poetics in the Early Information Age
Research team leader of the project Black Narratives of Transcultural Appropriation: Constructing Afropean Worlds, Questioning European Foundations