Benjamin Kohlmann#
| Membership Number: | 5687 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/anglistik/staff/pd-dr-benjamin-kohlmann/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 11/2020 Heisenberg Professor, English Department, University of Regensburg
- 04/2020 - 09/2020 Heisenberg Fellow, English Department, University of Regensburg
- 08/2011 - 08/2019 Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Freiburg, Germany (June 2017: Habilitation and venia legendi for Engl. Literature)
- 01/2018 - 03/2018 Visiting Fellow, University of California (Davis), USA
- 10/2016 - 03/2017 Visiting Member, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 10/2016 - 03/2017 Visiting Fellow, English Department, University of East Anglia, UK
- 10/2012 - 09/2013 Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA
- 10/2010 - 07/2011 Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary theory
- Marxism, communism
- Twentieth-century British literature
- Nineteenth-century British literature
- Literature and the welfare state
- Poetry and poetics
- Comparative approaches
- The politics of writing
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) [highest award for early and mid-career researchers in Germany; awarded across all academic disciplines]
- 2016 - 2017 Elected visiting member of Jesus College, University of Cambridge
- 2016 - 2017 Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation
- 2014 Elected member of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE)
- 2014 - 2021 Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2015 - 2018 Project funding (three years), "Literature, Liberalism, and the Laissez-Faire Economy, 1776 - 1900", Elite Programme for Postdocs, Baden Württemberg Foundation (funding for PhD student and conference organisation)
- 2012 - 2013 Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2008 - 2010 PhD scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- 2007 - 2010 Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the University of Oxford (waiving university and college fees)
- 2004 - 2005 Baden-Württemberg Scholarship (to study at Yale University)
- 2003 - 2010 Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
