Thomas Ernst is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Antwerp. He also works at the University of Amsterdam and holds a venia legendi on Media and Cultural Studies/German Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
His research focuses on the construction of identities, images of Germany and Europe, multilinguality and transcultural spaces in Austrian and German literature; on experimental and subversive Austrian and German literatures in the 20th and 21st century; and on the digital transformation of media and its cultural effects (literature and social media; intellectual property rights; digital publishing). His publications include books on “Popliteratur” (2001/2005), “Literatur und Subversion” (2013) and numerous papers that have been published in international magazines and book series with peer-review. At the moment, he is working on a monograph on literature and social media.
Ernst has worked as a researcher or as a referee with institutions such as the DFG, FWO, FNR and the Alexander-von-Humboldt-foundation, he was an appointed member of the Global Young Faculty III (2013-2015) and is a liaison professor of the Hans-Böckler-foundation (sinds 2016). He is member of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (ACDC) and of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, associated member of the Study Centre for Experimental Literature (Brussel/Gent) and founding member of the DHd-workgroup Digital publishing.
Short CV
- 2005 Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University in the City of New York (Department of Germanic Languages)
- 2008 Ph.D./Dr. phil. “summa cum laude” at the University of Trier (Modern German Literature)
- 2008-2010 Postdoctoral researcher at the Université du Luxembourg (IPSE: Identité. Politiques, Sociétés, Espace)
- 2010-2016 Assistant Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen (German Studies/Literary and Media Studies)
- 2017 Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam (Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures/German Studies)
- 2019 Habilitation at the University of Duisburg-Essen (venia legendi in Media and Cultural Studies/German Studies)
- 2019 Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Antwerp
- Curriculum Vitae and list of publications (in German)
Selected texts in English
From Avant-Garde Guerillas to Capitalistic Teamwork? Concepts of Collective Creative Writing Between Subversion and Submission. In: Gerhard Fischer/Florian Vaßen (eds.): Collective Creativity. Collaborative Work in Literature, the Sciences and the Arts. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2011 (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und zur Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, nr. 148), p. 229-241.
‘Kanak Sprak’ and Union Suspecte. Scandals Around Hybrid and Multilingual Literature in Germany and Belgium. In: Mirjam Gebauer/Pia Schwarz Lausten (Hg.): Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe. München 2010, p. 243-258.
Tagungsbericht ‘Collective Creativity’. 23.7.2009-26.7.2009, Sydney (). In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 23.09.2009, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=2784 (by Anna König, in collaboration with Ned Curthoys, Thomas Ernst, Andrew McNamara and Ralf Rauker).
German pop literature and cultural globalisation. In: Stuart Taberner (ed.): German literature in the age of globalisation. Birmingham 2004 (The New Germany in Context), p. 169-188.