Nils Plath appointed Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor

This prestigious award goes to Dr Plath, a literary scholar with a proven interdisciplinary-comparative orientation, with a pronounced interest in critical questions, including in cultural studies, and in fundamental contemporary literary theory formation, to which he has contributed with his own essays. A large number of essays in specialist journals and anthologies, a monograph on Kafka, Beckett, Adorno and Derrida and editorships of relevant anthologies on quotations, on urban and travel literature and on punctuation marks have also brought him international attention for his research work.

Nils Plath has been employed at the University of Erfurt since 2014, where he previously completed his doctorate. He most recently held the substitute professorship for General and Comparative Literature (2021) and is a member of a number of interdisciplinary research groups at the University of Erfurt. Plath will offer two seminars reflecting long-term research interests during his time at Brown University from February to May 2022: "Crime Scene Germany" (undergraduate) and "This is Us in Language: Mother Tongues, Fatherland, and I" (graduate).