Markus Messling#
| Membership Number: | 6868 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uni-saarland.de/forschen/khk/das-kolleg.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024,04 Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Center for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Saarland University
- 2019,04 Full Professor, Chair for Romance Literatures and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Saarland University
- 2018,10 - 2019, 03 also Professor for Romance Literatures, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2015,06 - 2019, 03 Vice Director, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, the Franco-German Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2014,10 - 12 Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson College)
- 2009,11 - 2014, 10 Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Emmy Noether Excellence Grant „Philology and Racism in the 19th Century“ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Potsdam University
- 2008,09 - 2009,07 Postdoc, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris)
- 2007,08 - 2008,06 Project Director Science and Research, ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius (Hamburg)
- 2003,10 - 2007,05 Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the project „Wilhelm von Humboldt and France“ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Free University of Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative literature and cultural philosophy
- French and Francophone literatures
- Epistemology and history of the modern humanities
- Historical anthropology
- Narration and historiography
- Aesthetics
- Mediterranianism
- Universalism/relativism
- The irreparable and theories of reparation/repair
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Käte Hamburger International Centre for eminent scholars in the humanities and social sciences, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- 2018 Consolidator Grant for "Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism", European Research Council
- 2015 Professeur invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
- 2011 Société Asiatique de Paris, Ordinary Member
- 2010 Postdoc Science Award in the Humanities of the State of Brandenburg (chaired by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- 2009 Emmy Noether Excellence Grant, German Research Foundation
- 2008 Postdoc fellowship, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the German Academic Exchange Service
- 2008 Tiburtius Prize of the Universities of Berlin for outstanding doctoral theses
- 1998 - 2003 Ordinary fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
