Astrid Erll#
| Membership Number: | 2885 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
- 2009 - 2010 Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary theory
- Memory studies
- Narratology
- Transcultural studies
- Media studies/intermediality
- Anglophone literatures and cultures
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Opus Magnum award of Volkswagen Foundation (for a book on the memohistory of the Odyssey)
- 2009/2010 International Research Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
- 2008 University of Wuppertal award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2005 Justus Liebig University Award for Excellence in Post-doctoral Research
- 2002/2003 Justus Liebig University Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the School of Language, Culture and Literature in the academic year
- 1999/2002 Doctoral Fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
