Robert K. Weninger#
| Membership Number: | 3608 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/german/people/staff/academic/weninger/aspx |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003- Professor of German, King's College London
- 2000-2003 Professor of German, Oxford Brookes U, Oxford
- 1988-2000 Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Washington U, Saint Louis
- 1985-1988 Ass. prof. at Texas U, Arlington
- 1982-1985 Teaching in German, Frankfurt U
Fields of Scholarship
- 19th-20th century German and European comparative literature
- Literary Theory
- Contemporary German literature
- Apocalypse in literature
- James Joyce
Honours and Awards
- Member of international advisory board Austrian Acad of Sci/Institut für Kulturwissenschaften
- Elected Member, CHLEL (ICLA committee Comparative Histories of Literatures in European Languages)
- Executive Committee member, BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association)
