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Christian Moser (Universität Bonn)
2014 Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor
Ökologien des Gehens
Christian Moser studied German, English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of
Bonn and Oxford. He received his PhD in German Literature at the University of Bonn in
1992 and was given the certificate of habilitation in Comparative Literature at the same
university in 2003. Moser taught German and Comparative Literature at the University of
Bonn between 1992 and 2007 and at the University of Aix-la-Chapelle between 2005 and
2007. He was Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New
York, in 2007. From February 2008 until July 2009, he was Chair Professor of German
Literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands. In August 2009, he was appointed
Professor of Comparative Literature and Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at
the University of Bonn.
Moser is President of the German Comparative Literature Association and editor of
Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine and Vergleichende
Literaturwissenschaft. He is member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Life
Writing.
Moser’s current research interests lie in the field of literature and globalization, the history of
subjectivity in its relation to historical changes in media technology, the semantics of
barbarism in the 18th, 19th and 20th century, and the cultural history of the line/linearity.
Kannibalische Katharsis. Literarische und filmische Inszenierungen der Anthropophagie von James Cook bis Bret Easton Ellis. (= Aisthesis Essay; Bd. 18.) Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2005.
Buchgestützte Subjektivität: Literarische Formen der Selbstsorge und der Selbsthermeneutik von Platon bis Montaigne.(= Communicatio; Bd. 36.) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006.
Kopflandschaften. Landschaftsgänge. Kulturgeschichte und Poetik des Spaziergangs. Ed. Axel Gellhaus, Christian Moser u. Helmut J. Schneider. Köln u. Weimar: Böhlau, 2007.
Automedialität. Subjektkonstitution in Schrift, Bild und neuen Medien. Ed. Jörg Dünne u. Christian Moser. München: Fink, 2008.
Friedrich Schiller und die Niederlande. Historische, kulturelle und ästhetische Kontexte. Ed. Christian Moser, Eric Moesker u. Joachim Umlauf. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2012.
Texturen des Barbarischen. Exemplarische Studien zu einem Grenzbegriff der Kultur. Ed. Carla Dauven-van Knippenberg, Christian Moser u. Daniel Wendt. (= Amsterdam German Studies, Bd. 2.) Heidelberg: Synchron 2014.