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-student Fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as an Assistant in the Department of German at the University of Basel from 1993 to 1996 and earned his PhD in Philosophy in 1996. He then took on an Assistantship at the Department of German Philology of the University of Munster, where he completed his Habilitation in 2002 and became an Assistant Professor. He held a fellowship at the Research Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin in 2002 and later served as a Full Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tubingen. He has been a visiting professor at several prestigious institutions, including the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Davis. His research areas include Literary Cultural Studies and Jewish Literature, focusing on the intersection of literature, knowledge, technology, art, and esotericism, examining authors such as Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann.

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