Carlos Spoerhase#
| Membership Number: | 6828 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.germanistik.uni-muenchen.de/personal/ndl/professoren/spoerhase/index.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0615-6789 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2022 Chair of Modern German Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 2017 - 2022 Professorship for German Literary Studies, University of Bielefeld
- 2016 - 2017 Professorship for Book History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- 2015 - 2016 Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 2010 - 2016 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2007 - 2010 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- 2005 - 2006 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt University of Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of literature in the global literary field
- Literary theory and general criticism
- Relationship between aesthetics and social theory
- History of the humanities
- Modern German and European literary history
- Modern German and European intellectual history
- Methods and practices of philological research
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
- 2021 Honorary Lifetime Membership, Goethe Society of North America
- 2020 Class of 1932 Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Council, Princeton University
- 2020 Co-Editor, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (DVjs)
- 2019 Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study (Morphomata), Universität zu Köln
- 2014 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for experienced researchers, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
- 2006 Fritz Thyssen Research Fellowship, Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle
- 2002 Doctoral scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation
