Dr. Jutta Müller Tamm

Biography

Jutta Müller-Tamm is a Professor of Modern German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. Her academic journey began with studies in German philology, philosophy, art history, and theater studies at the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main. She completed her doctoral thesis in 1994, followed by habilitation in 2003. Since 2006, she has been serving as a professor at FU Berlin. Müller-Tamm's research encompasses literature and science history, aesthetics, poetics of the 19th and early 20th centuries, literature from Romanticism to Expressionism, contemporary literature, and the history of the humanities. Her recent research projects include “Hidden, Misjudged, Forgotten” and “AfterWords.” She has held visiting positions at several prominent universities, including the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her significant contributions to literary studies have led her to engage in various literary and cultural history projects, along with international literary exchange relations centered around Berlin from the time of the Wall till the present. She has published extensively in major books and journals about topics ranging from empirical aesthetics to synesthesia in literature, and she actively participates in numerous academic committees and organizations in her field.

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