Kilcher, Andreas

Biography

Andreas Kilcher has been full Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at ETH Zurich since June 2008. Born in Basel in 1963, he studied German Literature, History and Philosophy in Basel and Munich. 1991-1993: PhD-student and Fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1993-1996: Assistant at the Department of German of the University of Basel. 1996: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). 1996-2002: Assistantship and Habilitation (2002) at the Department of German Philology of the University of Munster. Thereafter, Assistant Professor. 2002: Fellow at the Research Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin. 2004: Full Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tubingen.

Research Interest

History of German-Jewish Literature and Culture, Literary and Cultural Studies; Kabbalah and Esoteric Studies.