Benjamin Kohlmann - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION:

• 09/2011 - 06/2017 Habilitation (venia legendi), English Literature, University of Freiburg
  
• 10/2007 - 03/2011 PhD, English Literature and Language, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (UK)
  Thesis title: “Ambiguities of Political Writing: Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s”; passed with no corrections
  Supervisor: Professor Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
  
• 10/2005 - 09/2007 MA, English Language and Literature / Philosophy, University of Freiburg. Final results: 1,0 (with distinction)
  
• 08/2004 - 08/2005 Graduate School, Philosophy Department, Yale University, USA
  
• 10/2001 - 07/2004 Undergraduate Studies, English Language and Literature / Philosophy, University of Freiburg
  
• 6/2000 High school diploma, Beethoven Gymnasium, Bonn

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

• "Afterlives of the Paris Commune", Queen Mary University of London and Raphael Samuel History Centre, November 2021. [with Dr. Charlotte Jones]
  
• "British Fictions of Class, 1945-Present", University of Siegen, June 2021 [with Prof. Felix Sprang and Katrin Becker]
  
• "The Political Uses of Literature: Comparative Approaches, Theoretical Perspectives", LMU Munich, February 2021. [with Dr. Ivana Perica]
  
• "Radical Styles: Forms, Commitments, Traditions," University of Freiburg, July 2019.
  
• "The Proletarian Moment: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Comparative Perspectives," ZIF (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), University of Bielefeld, June 2018 [with Prof. Sabine Hake]
  
• "Islands and Islandness", Murray Edward College, Univ. of Cambridge, July 2018. [with Dr. Leo Mellor]
  
• “Post-, Neo-, Anti-: The Futures of Critique“, University of Freiburg, June 2018.
  
• “Modern Literature, Institutions, and Organisations”, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March 2017. [with Professor Rachel Potter and Dr. Matthew Taunton, UEA]
  
• "Cultivating the Economy: Literature, Politics, Economics, 1870-1940", Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2013.
  
• “Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945”, University of Oxford, September 2009 [co-organized with Rosalyn Gregory]

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

• Full member by invitation of PhD grant selection committee, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2011 - 2016
  
• Editorial board member, Critical Quarterly
  
• Member of the Board of Directors, English Department, University of Freiburg (2017 - 2019)
  

Book manuscript and article referee for: Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; University of Toronto Press; Literature and History; Modernism/Modernity; Victorian Network; Key Words: Journal of the Raymond Williams Society; Modern Philology; and other journals