Research

Joachim Küpper is a literary scholar. Since the year 2000 he has been teaching at Freie Universitaet Berlin. His publications treat the three major Romance literatures (France, Spain, Italy), but also German and English literary texts.

He mainly focuses on medieval and early modern texts and on 19th century literature. The main point of his publications is the question of the principles of cultural and literary dynamics. In addition, he publishes on literary theory and on problems concerning the comparison between the arts.

Career

• 2009-2016 Visiting Professor / Directeur de recherche invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
• 2003-2012 Visiting Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
• since 2000 Full professorship with tenure, Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature, FU Berlin, Germany
• 1990-1999 Full professorship with tenure, Romance Philology (French, Spanish and Italian literature), University of Wuppertal, Germany
• 1989 Admission to the Bavarian Fiebiger-Programme (professorship at the University of Regensburg); Appointment offered, University of Wuppertal, Germany
• 1987-1989 Professorship without tenure, Romance Philology, University of Munich, Germany
• 1987 Habilitation
• 1980 Ph.D.
• 1977-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Philology, University of Munich, Germany
• 1970-1977 Studies of Romance Literatures and History (Universities of Bochum, Toulouse, Paris)

Projects

• 2010-2016 Principle Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant-Project “Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net”
• 2007-2016 Director of the Dahlem Humanities Center (Excellence Initiative, third funding line (institutional strategy), funded by the DFG; also funded by the (Federal) Ministry of Education and Research)
• 2007-2015 Member of the board, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies (Excellence initiative, funded by the German Research Foundation/ DFG)
• 2007-2012 PI, TOPOI (Cluster of Excellence, funded by the DFG)
• 2007-2012 PI, Collaborative Research Center 626 (funded by the DFG) “Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits”

Functions

• 2012-2015 Member, standing committee for European Research policy, HRK / German rectors’ conference
• 2010 Chair, committee for “Research Ratings in the Humanities” (Wissenschaftsrat)
• 2008-2010 Dean of the Humanities, Freie Universitaet (FU) Berlin, Germany
• 2007-2015 Member, committee on research (Academies’ programme), Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
• 2006-2012 Member, standing committee for research and the promotion of younger researchers, HRK / German rectors’ conference
• 2006-2012 Member, committee for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2001-2016 Editor in chief of “Poetica”
• 1997-2015 Co-editor of “Romanistisches Jahrbuch”

Honours and Memberships

• since 2018 Corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
• since 2016 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• since 2010 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2009 Advanced Grant, European Research Council
• since 2008 Member (corr.) of the Goettingen Academy, Germany
• 2001 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 1987 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 1980 Dissertation Award, University of Bochum; Strasbourg Award, Foundation FVS, Germany