Alfred Hornung#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2005–2008 Vice Dean, Department of 05: Philosophy and Philology, University of Mainz 2007–2008 Chair of Department of English and Linguistics, University of Mainz
• 2001–2005 Member of University Senate, University of Mainz April–May 2005 Dean, Philosophy and Philology, University of Mainz
• 2001–2005 Dean of English, American Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz
• 1995–1996 Chair of Department of English, University of Mainz
• 1993–1996 Vice Dean of English, American Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz
• 1991–1995 Member of University Senate, University of Mainz
• 1991–1993 Dean of English, American Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz
• 1989–1990 Chair of Department of English, University of Mainz
• 1988– Professor and Chair of English and American Studies, University of Mainz, Germany
• Numerous visting professorships

• Narratology
• Life writing and ecology
• Life sciences and life writing
• Modernism, postmodernism
• Comparative multi-ethnic studies
• Inter‐ and transculturalism
• Transnational American Studies

• 1978 Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung for best dissertation
• 1979 Honorary Citizen of the State of Texas
• 1980-81 Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
• 2004- Permanent Fellow, Center for Cross‐Cultural Studies, Peking University
• 2013 Carl Bode–Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies
• 2014- Research Professorship of State of Rhineland-Palatinate at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Curriculum Vitae

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Publication list

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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