Dr. Andreas Kilcher

Biography

Andreas Kilcher is a Full Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at ETH Zurich since June 2008. He was born in Basel in 1963 and studied German Literature, History, and Philosophy in Basel and Munich. From 1991 to 1993, he was a PhD candidate at the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kilcher worked as an assistant at the Department of German at the University of Basel from 1993 to 1996, where he earned his PhD in Philosophy in 1996. Between 1996 and 2002, he was involved in an assistantship for Habilitation in the Department of German Philology at the University of Munster. He later served as an Assistant Professor before becoming a Full Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tubingen in 2004. Kilcher's expertise includes visiting professorships at several prestigious institutions such as the Hebrew University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of California Davis. His research interests encompass Literary Cultural Studies, Jewish literature, and cultural history, particularly focusing on the intersection of literature, knowledge, technology, art, and esotericism. He has published works on notable authors such as Franz Kafka, Lasker-Schüler, Thomas Mann, and Max Frisch.

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