!!Benjamin Kohlmann - Curriculum Vitae
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__EDUCATION:__
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*09/2011 - 06/2017 Habilitation (venia legendi), English Literature, University of Freiburg\\
*10/2007 - 03/2011 PhD, English Literature and Language, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (UK)\\Thesis title: “Ambiguities of Political Writing: Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s”; passed with no corrections\\Supervisor: Professor Valentine Cunningham (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)\\
*10/2005 - 09/2007 MA, English Language and Literature / Philosophy, University of Freiburg. Final results: 1,0 (with distinction)\\
*08/2004 - 08/2005 Graduate School, Philosophy Department, Yale University, USA\\
*10/2001 - 07/2004 Undergraduate Studies, English Language and Literature / Philosophy, University of Freiburg\\
*6/2000 High school diploma, Beethoven Gymnasium, Bonn
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__CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:__
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*"Afterlives of the Paris Commune", Queen Mary University of London and Raphael Samuel History Centre, November 2021. [[with Dr. Charlotte Jones]\\
*"British Fictions of Class, 1945-Present", University of Siegen, June 2021 [[with Prof. Felix Sprang and Katrin Becker]\\
*"The Political Uses of Literature: Comparative Approaches, Theoretical Perspectives", LMU Munich, February 2021. [[with Dr. Ivana Perica]\\
*"Radical Styles: Forms, Commitments, Traditions," University of Freiburg, July 2019.\\
*"The Proletarian Moment: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Comparative Perspectives," ZIF (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research), University of Bielefeld, June 2018 [[with Prof. Sabine Hake]\\
*"Islands and Islandness", Murray Edward College,  Univ. of Cambridge, July 2018. [[with Dr. Leo Mellor]\\
*“Post-, Neo-, Anti-: The Futures of Critique“, University of Freiburg, June 2018.\\
*“Modern Literature, Institutions, and Organisations”, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March 2017. [[with Professor Rachel Potter and Dr. Matthew Taunton, UEA]\\
*"Cultivating the Economy: Literature, Politics, Economics, 1870-1940", Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2013.\\
*“Utopian Spaces of British Literature and Culture, 1890-1945”, University of Oxford, September 2009 [[co-organized with Rosalyn Gregory]
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__PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:__
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*Full member by invitation of PhD grant selection committee, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2011 - 2016\\
*Editorial board member, Critical Quarterly\\
*Member of the Board of Directors, English Department, University of Freiburg (2017 - 2019)\\
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__Book manuscript and article referee for:__ Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; University of Toronto Press; Literature and History; Modernism/Modernity; Victorian Network; Key Words: Journal of the Raymond Williams Society; Modern Philology; and other journals\\ \\