Christian Benne#
| Membership Number: | 5427 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://engerom.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/326277 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2019 'Full Professor of European Literature and Intellectual History, The University of Copenhagen
- Since 2015 Professor (mso) of European Literature and Intellectual History, The University of Copenhagen
- 2014/15 and 2018/19 Fellow of Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne
- 2014 Full professor of European Literature, The University of Southern Denmark
- 10-11/2013 and 7/2015 Fellowship/guest professorship at Meiji University and Tokyo University
- 5/2013 Guest professorship at Center for Material Text Cultures, University of Heidelberg
- 5/2011 and 1-5/2013 Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
- 2-3/2009 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
- 2005 - 2014 Head of German Department, The University of Southern Denmark
- 2005 Tenure (Associate Professor of German literature, The University of Southern Denmark)
- 1999 - 2005 Lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service, Denmark
- 1998/1999 Researcher and journalist for the BBC (Central and Eastern Europe)
Fields of Scholarship
- Manuscript studies and book history
- Literature and philosophy
- Romanticism, Friedrich Schlegel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Comparative literature and literary theory
Honours and Awards
- 2018/19 Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, Cologne
- 2014/15 Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, Cologne
- 2013 Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- 2007 Fyens Stiftstidendes research prize
- 2007 - 2015 Honorary Representative of Germany
