Markus Messling

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Markus Messling (* 1975 in Wuppertal) is a German literary and cultural scientist and Romance philologist .

Life

Markus Messling studied Romance and German at the Free University of Berlin (1996-2003) and Lettres modern and Littérature générale et comparée at the Université Jean-Moulin-Lyon III (1998/99). In 2007 he received his doctorate in Romance Philology with a thesis on the reception of French linguistic anthropology in Wilhelm von Humboldt's theory of writing and its importance for Derrida's grammatology at the Free University of Berlin. From 2007 to 2008 he was project leader science and research at the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius and from 2008 to 2009 DAAD / MSH postdoctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ) in Paris . He was head of the Emmy Noether junior research group “Philology and Racism. Discourse and counter-discourse in France, Germany, Italy and Spain in the 19th century ”of the German Research Foundation (2009–2014) and was launched in 2015 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam with the thesis Gebeugter Geist. Racism and Knowledge in Modern European Philology, qualified as a professor ( Venia legendi for Romance Philology and General and Comparative Literature). From 2015 to 2019 he was Deputy Director of the Center Marc Bloch and since 2018 Professor of Romance Literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since the summer semester 2019 he has been teaching as professor for Romance cultural studies and intercultural communication at Saarland University . In November 2018 Markus Messling was awarded for his research project “Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism ”was awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Messling was a Fellow of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London (2014), a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and a guest at Wolfson College (2014), as well as a visiting professor at EHESS Paris (2011, 2015) and Kobe University in Japan (2016 ).

research

His academic focus is on francophone literary and cultural studies, cultural philosophy and cultural theory , historical anthropology and the history of knowledge , the aesthetics and materiality of communication, the politics of literature as well as in the area of ​​reflection on the intellectual and material consequences of postcolonial theory.

He was co-founder and co-editor of Philological Encounters (2015-2019) and editor of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (2015-2019).

Awards

  • Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (2018)
  • Co-opted as full member, Société Asiatique de Paris (2011)
  • Young Scientists Award of the State of Brandenburg, Category Postdoc Humanities and Social Sciences (2010)
  • Emmy Noether Junior Research Group of the German Research Foundation (2009)
  • Tiburtius Prize of the Berlin universities for outstanding dissertations (2008)

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Universality according to universalism. About contemporary francophone literatures . Berlin 2019: Matthes & Seitz, ISBN 3-95757-725-X .
  • Bowed mind. Racism and Knowledge in Modern European Philology . Göttingen 2016: Wallstein (series "Philologies: Theory - Practice - History"), ISBN 3-8353-1931-0 .
  • Champollion's hieroglyphs. Philology and appropriation of the world . Berlin 2010: Kulturverlag Kadmos, ISBN 3-86599-161-0 . Extended French edition: Les Hiéroglyphes de Champollion. Philologie et conquête du monde . Grenoble 2015: ELLUG (Collection “Vers l'Orient”), ISBN 978-2-84310-311-7 .
  • Parisian oriental readings. On Wilhelm von Humboldt's theory of writing. In addition to the first edition of the correspondence between Wilhelm von Humboldt and Jean-François Champollion le jeune (1824–1827) . Paderborn 2008: Schöningh (Humboldt Studies), ISBN 3-506-76447-0 .

Editing

  • Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldūn and Giambattista Vico . Edited with Islam Dayeh. Leiden, Boston 2020: Brill (= Philological Encounters 5/1).
  • Mathias Énard et l'érudition du roman . Edited with Cornelia Ruhe, Lena Seauve and Vanessa de Senarclens. Leiden, Boston 2020: Brill Rodopi (“Faux Titre”).
  • Europe - literature - borders. Language in the Technical Age 232 (2019), Dossier (ed. With Wolfgang Asholt).
  • Caves: Obsession of prehistory. Edited with Marcel Lepper a . Jean-Louis Georget. Berlin 2019: Matthes & Seitz ("Happy Science").
  • Vanishing point. The Mediterranean and the European crisis . Edited with Franck Hofmann. Berlin 2017: Kulturverlag Kadmos. French edition: Point de fuite. La Méditerranée et la crise européenne . Paris 2019: Editions Hermann.
  • Formations of the Semitic: Race, Religion, and Language in Modern European Scholarship . Edited with Islam Dayeh, Ta'al Hever a. Elizabeth Eva Johnston. Leiden, Boston 2017: Brill (= Philological Encounters 2 / 3–4).
  • Live literature . FS Ottmar Ette. Ed. With Albrecht Buschmann, Julian Drews, Tobias Kraft, Anne Kraume a. Gesine Mueller. Frankfurt / Main, Madrid 2016: Vervuert / Iberoamericana.
  • Empty center . The Mediterranean and literary modernity . An anthology. With drawings by Paul Klee. Ed. And with an afterword by F. Hofmann and M. Messling. Berlin 2015: Kulturverlag Kadmos.
  • Racial thinking in language and text reflection. Annotated basic texts of the long 19th century. Edited with Philipp Krämer a. Markus A. Lenz. Paderborn 2015: Fink.
  • Maurice Olender: The languages ​​of paradise. Religion, Racial Theory, and Text Culture . Revised new edition, ed. and with a foreword by M. Messling. Translated from the French by Peter D. Krumme. With the preface to the first edition by Jean-Pierre Vernant. With an essay by Jean Starobinski. Berlin 2013: Kulturverlag Kadmos.
  • Word power trunk. Racism and Determinism in Philology (18th / 19th Centuries) . Edited with Ottmar Ette. Munich 2013: Fink.
  • City and urbanity. Transdisciplinary perspectives . Edited with Dieter Läpple and Jürgen Trabant. Berlin 2011: Kulturverlag Kadmos.
  • “ Man is only man through language”. On the linguistic nature of people . Edited with Ute Tintemann. Munich 2009: Fink.
  • Linguistic thinking between Berlin and Paris: Wilhelm von Humboldt / La pensée linguistique entre Berlin et Paris: Wilhelm von Humboldt . Ed. With Sarah Bösch.Tübingen 2004: Narr (= KODIKAS / CODE. Ars semeiotica. An International Journal of Semiotics 27 / 1–2, Special issue).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philological Encounters . Brill. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Journal for the history of ideas . CH Beck. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Messling, Markus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messling, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal