Education
1984-1994 Student of Philosophy, German Literature, History, Art History, and Psychoanalysis at the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and Pisa (Italy). Magister Thesis: Selbstaufhebungsfiguren bei Nietzsche (with excellence)
1999 PHD, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. Doctoral Thesis: Das ästhetische Kalkül von Friedrich Nietzsches ‚Also sprach Zarathustra‘
2008 Habilitation Thesis: Theatrum Philosophicum: Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft
2009 Habilitation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2023 Il 31 gennaio 2023 ha conseguito l'abilitazione scientifica nazionale alle funzioni di professore di prima fascia nel settore 10/M1 (Letteratura Tedesca).
Academic Employment
1999-2008 Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-University Frankfurt within the research project of the German Research Foundation (DFG): Culture of knowledge and social change.
2007-2008 Co-leader of the DFG Research Project: Aesthetic forms of Knowledge generation in Early Modern Europe, Goethe-Universität Francoforte
1999 - 2019 Professor of German Literature and Culture, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Polen
Januar 1 2007-december 31 2011: Co-Leader of the independent Max Planck Research Group: The conscious image. The Epistemological Foundations of Secular Representation 1400-1850, Kunsthistorisches Institut / Max-Planck-Institut, Firenze.
Since April 2009: Adjunct Professor (privatdozent) in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.
October 1 2011- march 31 2014: Visiting professor of German literature at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin
Sept. /Oktober 2012: Visiting profesor at the Peking-University (Beida) / Visiting profess0r at Chongqing University for Foreign Languages
May 2013 Visiting Professor at the University of Trieste
November 2013: Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb
Since April 2014: Deputy Director of the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies
Since october 2015: Professor (apl.) of German Literature at the University of Stuttgart
October 2015- March 2016: Visiting Professor at the University of Padova (6 months)
Interim professorships (Vertretungsprofessuren)
April 2014- March 2015: Deputy Professorship at the University of Stuttgart (replacing Sandra Richter)
October 1 2011- March 31 2014: Visiting professor of German literature at the Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, FU Berlin (replacing Peter-André Alt)
March-September 2010: Visiting Professor of philosophy of science, TU Darmstadt (replacing Alfred Nordmann).
Languages German, English, Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Latin (Latinum), Ancient Greek (Graecum)
Grants/scholarships/fellowships
1990-1992: scholarship at the University of Pisa
June 1995-january 1998: PhD bursary (Graduate support from the German state Hessen)
Summer 2001: Research Fellow at the Department for Philosophy of the University of Berkeley
April 1999-2005: 6-Year travel-grant sponsored by the Georg und Maria Dietrich Stiftung
October 2010: Travel Grant, sponsored by the German Exchange Service (FU Berlin)
November /December 2009: Research Fellowship at the DFG Research Group Bildakt und Verkörperung, Humboldt-University Berlin
Sept. /October 2012: Visiting professorship at Peking University (Beida)
May 2013: Erasmus-Visiting Professorship at University of Trieste
November 2013: DAAD-Visiting Professorship at University of Zagreb
November 2014: Marbach-Stipendium, Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
May 2015: Marbach-Stipendium, Research Fellowship at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
2015/2016: Visiting Professorship at the University of Padova
March 2017: Visiting Professorship at the University of Trento
Memberships
» Member of the Consiglio scientifico, Istituto italiano di studi germanici, Roma https://www.studigermanici.it/istituto/il-consiglio-scientifico/
» Member of the Stiftungsrat Nietzsche-Haus Sils Maria
» Associate Research Scholar at the Max Planck-Institut/ Kunsthistorisches Institut Firenze
» Exzellenzcluster „Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung“, HU-Berlin
» AIG Italia
» Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Mittelalter - Renaissance - Frühe Neuzeit, FU Berlin,
» Nietzschegesellschaft e.V. (Halle und Naumburg),
» Hölderlingesellschaft e.V.,
» International Nietzsche Research Group (INRG, Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche / Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su Nietzsche, GIRN),
» Vice President of the Carl Sternheim Gesellschaft e.V. Frankfurt a. M
Editorial Boards
» Nietzsche-Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzscheforschung (Hrsg., ab 2017) [peer reviewed journal]
» Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture (mit Karl Enenkel et al.), Brill: Leiden und Boston (seit 2005 ff., bisher 87 Bände erschienen) [peer reviewed]
» Zeitsprünge. Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit (seit 2006 ff.) [peer-reviewed journal]
» Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (Hrsg., ab 2017)
» Hyper-Nietzsche.org
» Nietzsche-Online (De Gruyter)
» Texte zur Wissensgeschichte der Kunst. Editionsreihe, Manutiusverlag: Heidelberg, 2008 ff.
» Textologie der Philosophie, Literatur und der Wissenschaften (De Gruyter)
» Oswald Spengler-Schriftenreihe (Verlag W. Leske), ab 2016
» Jakob Böhme: Sämtliche Werke. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe, ab 2020
Advisory boards
» Biblioteca di saggi del ´900, Pisa: ETS
» Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale (seit 2016)
» Materiali di estetica
» verum factum. https://verumfactum.it/boards
» ODRADEK. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories
» „Les éditions d'Ariane“. Gruppo Internazionale di Ricerche su Nietzsche
» STEP (Scholarly Text-Editing Platform) / Digital Peirce Archive (DPA) Digitalisierung des Peirce-Nachlasses, Peirce-Archiv der University of Indiana.
» Nietzsche-Lektüren (De Gruyter, 2017ff.)