POSITION AT CILS
PI
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
Center for Literature and Cultural Research Berlin
Institute of Literary Science, Technische Universität Berlin
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
- Honorary Doctor, Katholische Universität Leuven (2007)
- Reimer-Preis of the Aby Warburg Stiftung Hamburg (1997)
EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS
- Honorary Member, Modern Language Association (2000)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “In ungeheuren Fällen.”- Benjamin’s Critique of Violence and Constitutional Law. In: VIVIAN LISKA (Ed.): Messianism and Law.
- Susan Taubes: Between the Philosophy of Religion and Cultural History. In: Telos. New Class, New Culture. Spring 2010, Issue 150: 115-135.
- Between Creation and Last Judgement. The creaturely and the holy: Benjamin and secularization. In: Paragraph, Vol. 32, No: 3.: 359-381.
- On the 'Topographical Turn': Concepts of Space in the Cultural Studies and Kulturwissenschaften. A Cartographical Feud. In: European Review, Vol 17, No.1 2009: 187-201.(auch in: D'HAEN, THEO and GOERLANDT, IANNIS (Ed.): Literature for Europe? New York / Amsterdam 2009: 61- 78.)
- Poetics as a Presupposition of Philosophy. Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch. In: Telos. Critical Theory: New Discussions. Spring 2009, Issiue 146: 97-110.
- The Souvereign, the Martyr and 'Just War' beyond the Jus Publicum Europaeum: The dilemma of Political Theology, discussed via Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin. In: ESPERANZA BIELSA/ CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES (Eds.): Globalization, Political Violence and Translation, Basingstoke and New York 2009.
- Inheritance Law, Heritage, Heredity: European Perspectives. In: What Should Inheritance Law be? Special Issue. Law and Literature, Summer 2008, Volume 20, Number 2: 279-285.
- Families, Phantoms, and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins. In: STEFAN BERGER, LINAS ERIKSONAS and ANDREW MYCOCK (Ed.): Narrating the Nation: Representations in History, Media and Arts. New York, Oxford 2008: 133-152.
- Conversion, Exchange, and Replacement. Reflecting Cultural Legacies of Indemnity. In: DAN DINER and GOTTHARD WUNBERG (Ed.): Restitution and Memory. New York 2007.
- The Measurement of Angels. Images of Pure Mind as a Matter of Science in 19th Century. In: European Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 / 2007: 297-320.




