Vivian Liska#
| Membership Number: | 3761 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (part time)
- 2008 - present Senior Full Professor (Gewoon Hoogleraar; Ordinarius), University of Antwerp
- 2003 - 2008 Associate Professor (Hoogleraar), University of Antwerp
- 2001 - Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp
- 1999 - 2003 Assistant Professor, (Hoofdocent) University of Antwerp
- 1996 - 1999 Lecturer, (Docent) University of Antwerp
- 1991 - 1996 Doctoral Assistant, University of Antwerp
- 1989 - 1990 Lecturer, University of Maryland (European Division, Brussels)
Fields of Scholarship
- Literary theory
- Literature and philosophy
- German-Jewish literature
- Law and literature
- Modern German literature
- Literature and gender
- Modernism
- German-Jewish thought
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Member, Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Literature)
- 2012 Ehrenkreuz der Republik Österreich für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Cross of Honor of the Republic of Austria for Sciences and the Arts)
- 2008 Prize of the MSA (Modernist Studies Association) (with Astradur Eysteinsson) for: Modernism. A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXI. 2 vols. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2007. ISBN 978-90-272-3454-2
