Curriculum vitae

M.A. (Konstanz), Dr. phil. (Heidelberg), Dr. phil. habil. (Konstanz)

Present Affiliations
Honorary University Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. 2009-.
Professor Emeritus, New York University. 2014-.
Professor Emeritus, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/O. 2009-.

Former Academic Positions
Senior Full Professor of English, New York University, New York, 1989-2013;
Director, The Poetics Institute, New York University, 1989-2001;
Director, The Poetics and Theory Program, New York University, 2001-2013.

Chair, Western European Literatures, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/O. 1996-2009;
Director, Heinrich-von-Kleist-Institut für Literatur und Politik. 1996-2008;
Director, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Representation, Rhetoric, Knowledge. 1996-2006.;
Director, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Lebensformen und Lebenswissen. 2005-2011.

Degrees
M.A. (Staatsexamen), University of Konstanz, 1968.
Dr.phil. (Promotion), University of Heidelberg, 1974.
Dr.habil. (Habilitation), University of Konstanz, 1983.

Venia legendi / Tenure
Professor of English, New York University, 1989;
Deutsche Literatur, medieval and modern; Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft,
University of Konstanz, 1983.

Academic Education
Altsprachliches Abitur (Classical Languages), Görres-Gymnasium Düsseldorf, 1964.
Graduate Studies, Universities of Freiburg, Tours, Zürich, Bonn, Konstanz 1964-68.
Postgraduate Studies, University of Konstanz 1968-70.
Staatsexamen in Philosophy, History, Literature, Konstanz 1968.

Previous Academic Positions 
Junior Lecturer, University of Ireland, University Colleges Dublin and Cork 1970-72.
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, University of Heidelberg 1972-75.
Hochschulassistent University of Konstanz 1975-83.
Universitätsprofessor C2, University of Konstanz 1983-87.
Universitätsprofessor C4, University of Freiburg/ Brsg. 1987-88.

Visiting Appointments
Visiting Full Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, New Haven CT 1984-86.
Visiting Full Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, 1985.
Visiting Full Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, 1986.
Distinguished Berg Visiting Professor of English, New York University, New York NY 1988.
Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, Norway, 1991.
Max-Planck Visiting Professor, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, 1992.
Directeur de recherche en philosophie, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciènces Sociales, Paris, 2002-03.
Directeur de recherche, Département de philosophie, Institut Catholique de Paris, 2002-03.
Distinguished Floersheimer Visiting Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, New York, 2006.
Directeur de recherche en philosophie, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciènces Sociales, Paris, 2007.
Messenger University Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Spring 2008.
Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Università di Verona, Italy, Spring/Summer 2011.
Derrida Lectures, University of Pecs/ Budapest, Hungary, Fall 2013.

ERC Research Professor of Rhetoric, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 2013-2015.
Distinguished Max Kade Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 2015.

Professional Associations
Member and Co-editor, Poetik und Hermeneutik, 1979-96.
Advisory Board, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, 2000-2010.
Executive Committee, International Walter Benjamin Association, Amsterdam, 1995-2006.

Editorial Boards
Walter Benjamin Studies, Amsterdam, 1997-2006.
Weimarer Beiträge, Wien, 1995-.
Law and Literature, University of California Press, 2004- /London 2013-.

Festschriften
Literatur als Philosophie/ Philosophie als Literatur, ed. Eva Horn, Bettine Menke, Christoph Menke. Munich: Fink Verlag 2006.
Latenz: 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff, ed. Stephanie Diekmann, Thomas Khurana. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos 2007.
Denkfiguren/ Figures of Thought for Anselm Haverkamp, ed. Eva Horn, Michèle Lowrie. Berlin: August Verlag 2013.