DAAD-Walter Benjamin-Chair: German Department & Program of Cultural Studies

                                        Christian Kohlross

Address:

            The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

            Humanities

            German Department/ Department of Cultural Studies

            Mount Scopus

            Jerusalem 91905

            Israel

            Tel. 00972/ (0) 25883849

            E-Mail.: christian.kohlross@gmx.de

Current position:

Since 2006, Walter Benjamin Visiting Professor at the Department of German Literature and at the Program of Cultural Studies of The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Areas of Teaching / Research Focus

Literary theory, Literary forms of knowledge; History of German Literature (esp. Lyric Poetry), Classical and Modern Aesthetics; Media Theory.

Books

Forthcoming: Die poetische Erkundung der wirklichen Welt. Literarische Epistemologie 1800-2000

2007    Literaturtheorie und Pragmatismus oder die Frage nach den Gründen des    philologischen Wissens [Literary Theory and Pragmatism, or The Question of the Reasons of Philological Knowledge] – Max Niemeyer-Verlag, Tübingen.

2006    Coedited with Frank Degler: Epochen/Krankheiten. Konstellationen von Literatur und Pathologie [Epoches & Illnesses: Constellations of Literature and Pathology],  (Das Wissen der Literatur Bd. I), St. Ingbert.  

2000    Theorie des modernen Naturgedichts. Oskar Loerke, Günter Eich, Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann [Theory of the modern nature poem – Oskar Loerke, Günter Eich, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann], Würzburg. 

Occupational activity:

2005, Deputy Director of the Graduate Program “Globalization and Cultural Studies,” which is sponsored by the State of Baden-Württemberg.

2005, Appointee of the School of German Language and Literary Studies for the B.A. / Master’s degree programs.

2005-2002 Coordinator of the DFG-research project ‘Literary and Medial Knowledge’ at Mannheim University, which is networked with the Center for Literature Studies (ZFL) in Berlin, Stanford University and the School of German Language and Literary Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Winter semester 2004/5  Guest lectureship at Marmara University, Istanbul.

October 2004  Appointment to Assistant Professor (C2) at Mannheim University

April 2004 – September 1999, Lecturer at the Department of German Philology II at Mannheim University.

2004-2003 Project coordinator for the establishment of a Ph.D. Program at the School of Humanities at Mannheim University.

2002-1992 Instructor of German as a Foreign Language and Literature at Mannheim Night School, Heidelberg University, and the University of Applied Sciences in Heidelberg.

University education:       

1998 – 1993 Ph.D. Program at Mannheim University (German Philology, Philosophy), Topic of the dissertation: Theory of the modern nature poem – Oskar Loerke, Günter Eich, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (summa cum laude).

1992 – 1985 studies of German Philology, Philosophy, Sociology at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Master of Arts.

Awards

Laureate for the Prize for Language and Scholarship of the University of Mannheim.