Frauke Berndt

Job title: 
Max Kade Visiting Professor
Department: 
German
Bio/CV: 

Frauke Berndt is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Zurich, after having taught at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of Chicago, and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Berndt has also been a visiting professor at several American universities. She has published widely on rhetoric, aesthetics, poetics & literary theory, focusing on German literature, history & thought from the 18th & 19th centuries. She is the author of numerous monographs and anthologies and the founder of the Zurich Aesthetics Lab, where she conducts her research in international groups.