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Sigrid Weigel

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Sigrid Weigel (born March 25, 1950, Hamburg) is a professor of German Literature and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin.[1]

She is a member of Academia Europaea and the Modern Language Association.[2]

Life

She studied at the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1977, earning a PhD.

She is the chairwoman of the Centre for the Humanities (GWZ) in Berlin and Professor at the Institute of Literature of the Technical University Berlin.[3] From 1984 to 1990, she taught at the University of Hamburg, and from 1990 to 1993 at the Cultural Research Institute, Essen.

She has been a visiting professor at Basel, Berkeley, Cincinnati, Harvard, and Stanford.[3] She is currently appointed as Permanent Visiting Professor at Princeton University.[4]

In 2016 she received the Aby Warburg Prize

Works

Works in English

Editor

Co-Editor

References

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  2. ^ http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Weigel_Sigrid
  3. ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-06-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Faculty, Department of German Studies
  5. ^ http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/25111.html

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