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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies |
| Keywords | Psychoanalyse, Moderne, Reiseliteratur, Ethnographie und Literatur, Kolonialismus |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | Toronto |
| Institution | University of Toronto |
| Institute | Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Klaus R. Scherpe | Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl | Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer | Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Willer | Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2004 |
Program(s)
| 2002 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2017 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Zilcosky is an internationally acclaimed authority in the fields of German Studies and Comparative Literature and esteemed for his great philological knowledge and methodological precision. His research area embraces German literature from the age of Goethe to the present, with special expertise in the work of Franz Kafka. During his stay in Germany he will work on two book projects: one about the cultural history of wrestling, the other a revision of his major essays on Kafka. |