Prof. dr. Galin Tihanov (Research – Galin Tihanov Comparative Literature and Culture)
George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He was previously Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and founding co-director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. His most recent research has been on cosmopolitanism, exile, and transnationalism. His publications include four books and nine (co)edited volumes, as well as over a hundred articles on German, Russian, French, and Central-European intellectual and cultural history and on cultural and literary theory. He is Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory (since 2008), Member of Academia Europaea (since 2013), Honorary Scientific Advisor, Institute for Foreign Literatures, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS, since 2014), and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for World Literature (IWL) at Harvard. Tihanov held visiting appointments at Yale University (2007), St. Gallen University (2012), the University of Sao Paulo (2013), Peking University (2014), Seoul National University (2015), as well as research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Collegium Budapest