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Romantic-Era Attempts at Writing One’s Self: From Charlotte Smith to Walt Whitman

📚 About the Speaker

Christoph Bode was Chair of Modern English Literature at LMU Munich until 2018 and Visiting Professor at UCLA in 1997 and at UC Berkeley in 2012, later also at Tsinghua University Beijing, at the University of Sichuan at Chengdu, and Distinguished Guest at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as Erasmus Fellow at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and Mercator Fellow at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.

He has published 30 books and about 100 scholarly articles, most of them in Romanticism, Twentieth-century Literature, Poetics, Narratology, and Critical Theory.

Honorary Lifetime President of the German Society for English Romanticism, he is also co-editor of three book series, permanent Fellow of LMU’s Centre for Advanced Studies and of the Academia Europaea, and recipient of various research grants, among them two fellowships from Oxford and a million Euro Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for his project on “Future Narratives” (2009–12).

Bode serves on the editorial or advisory boards of a dozen or so scholarly journals all over the world and is external reviewer for the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for exceptional achievements in research, teaching, and the support of junior researchers.