INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN

Hendrik Birus designated as new Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences

   

Hendrik Birus, longstanding expert in the field of literature, has been designated as IUB Vice President und Academic Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He will take office on August 1, 2006, succeeding the founding dean Max Kaase, who has been heading the school since 2000 and who is essentially accountable for its successful establishment and development.

[ Feb 09, 2006]  Hendrik Birus, at present still Professor of General and Comparative Study of Literature at the Munich-based Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), will take on his tasks at IUB after more than 30 years of national and international research and teaching activity. His designation at the end of January was the result of a committee search headed by Wolfgang Frühwald, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and former President of the German Research Foundation.

A full professor at LMU since 1987 Hendrik Birus founded the "Institute for General and Comparative Study of Literature” there in 1988. After two years as vice dean he headed the Philosophical Department of Linguistics and Study of Literature II from 1991 to 1993 as dean. A member of LMU’s academic senate for four years until 2002 he established the Bachelor and Master’s program “Comparative Study of Literature” in 2001/02 and since then has been its spokesperson. In the last 20 years he has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Vienna and Rome, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Universities of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Indiana (Bloomington), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and Washington (Seattle), Washington University (St. Louis), and Yale University (New Haven). He was a Fellow of the Berlin Institute of Advanced Science in 1995 and 1996. Since 2001 he is a Fellow Bavarian Academy of Science and chairs its commission for recent German literature. Professor Birus is the author and editor of eight books and published more than 70 science papers and numerous reviews.

 


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