Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit#

• 2010- Director of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies
• 1996-2004 Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
• 1991- Professor of Japanese Studies (Literature and Cultural Studies) at the Free University Berlin
• 1986-1991 Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Trier
• 1985-1986 Professor of Japanese literature and literary sociology at the State Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
• 1981-1982 Professor at the Ruhr – University Bochum
• 1977-1980 Lecturer at the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr – University Bochum
• 1975 Ph.D. (summa cum laude) at the Department of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum in the subjects Japanese, Germanic and Journalism and Communication Studies

• Modern and contemporary Japanese literature
• Comparative literature
• Sociology of language
• Cultural Semiotic
• The Japan research methodology

• 2001 Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize of the DFG
• 1995 Federal Cross of Merit
• Member of the Section Committee Classics & Oriental Studies of the Academia Europaea
• Member of the steering committee for the Literatures of the DFG Symposia
• 1992 Leibniz Prize of the DFG
• Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

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