Joachim Küpper

Joachim Küpper (born 1952) is a professor of Romance studies and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. Küpper has published on authors from various periods, including Homer, Dante, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Quevedo, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Manzoni, Balzac, Flaubert, Fontane, and Robbe-Grillet. In addition, he works on problems of literary theory and intellectual history. He is the author of eight monographs and approximately 100 articles, as well as the editor of numerous volumes and scholarly journals.

Career

In 1987, Küpper was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, and in 2001 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. From 2010 to 2016, Küpper acted as principal researcher of an Advanced Grant Project under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC). The project was dedicated to the development of a “network theory” of culture. The monograph resulting from the project, written by Küpper, was published in 2018 as The Cultural Net. In 2007, Küpper established the first center for the humanities in Germany, the Dahlem Humanities Center, at the Freie Universität Berlin. Küpper has lectured at universities worldwide, including Princeton University, UCLA, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the National Research University HSE in Moscow, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For many years, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, as well as a Directeur de recherche invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Küpper is a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, the German National Academy (Leopoldina), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

External links

• German Wikipedia article
• http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we03/institut/mitarbeiter/ProfessorInnen/kuepper/index.html