Michael Scheffel

Michael Scheffel
Born 27 February 1958
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Germanist
(Language/literature/linguistics)

Michael Scheffel (born Frankfurt 27 February 1958) is a professor for the history of modern German literature and more generally of Literary sciences at Wuppertal University.[1] He is also a co-editor of Text + kritik.

Life

After successful completion of his school career in Frankfurt Scheffel studied German Literature and linguistics, Romance studies and Art history at Tübingen, Tours and Göttingen.

He obtained his Doctorate in 1988 at Göttingen. His thesis was published in 1990 under the title "Magischer Realismus. Die Geschichte eines Begriffes und ein Versuch seiner Bestimmung".[1][2] He remained at Göttingen as a research assistant, obtaining a Habilitation (promotion/qualification) in 1995 in German studies.

Internationally he has been a guest lecturer at universities in Birmingham, Coimbra, Dublin, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Pécs, Peking and Szeged. Since Autumn 2008 he has been Vice-Rector for Research, Funding and Graduate support at the University of Wuppertal.

Published output

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 http://www.avl.uni-wuppertal.de/ueber-uns/personen/michael-scheffel.html
  2. "Magischer Realismus. Die Geschichte eines Begriffes und ein Versuch seiner Bestimmung"/ "Magic Realism. The history of a concept and an attempt at its confirmation"

External links