Christoph Bode was Chair of Modern English Literature at LMU Munich until 2018 and Visiting Professor at UCLA in 1997 and at UC Berkeley in 2012, later also at Tsinghua University Beijing, at the University of Sichuan at Chengdu, and Distinguished Guest at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015, 2019 respectively). He has published 30 books (e.g., Romanticism and the Forms of Discontent, 2017) and some 90 scholarly articles, most of them in Romanticism, Twentieth-century Literature, Poetics, Narratology, and Critical Theory.

Former President (2001-2013) and since 2013 Vice-President for International Affairs of the German Society for English Romanticism, co-editor of three book series, permanent Fellow of LMU’s Centre for Advanced Studies and of the Academia Europaea, Bode is also the recipient of various research grants, among them two fellowships from Oxford (2007 and 2015), a million Euro Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for his project on “Future Narratives” (2009-12) and a Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation in 2016.

Bode serves on the editorial or advisory boards of a dozen or so scholarly journals all over the world and is external reviewer for the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for exceptional achievements in research, teaching, and the support of junior researchers, and the Walker-Ames Lecture Prize of the University of Washington at Seattle in 2014.

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