Karla Pollmann#
| Membership Number: | 4507 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- October 2022 - present President at the University of Tübingen in Germany
- 2016, 10 Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Humanities, University of Reading, UK
- 2015, 08 - 2016, 09 Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Kent, UK
- 2013, 09 - 2015, 07 Deputy Head of the School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, UK
- 2013, 08 - 2016, 07 Head of the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, University of Kent, UK
- 2013, 01 - 2016, 09 Professor of Classics, University of Kent, UK
- 2000 - 2012 Professor of Classics, St Andrews University, UK
- 1995 - 2000 Lecturer in Classics, St Andrews University, UK
- 1991 - 1995 C1 - wissenschaftliche Assistentin Latein, Universität Konstanz, Germany
- 1989 - 1991 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Lehrstuhl Latein, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Early Christian and late antique history of ideas and culture
- Interdisciplinarity
- Reception Studies (esp. early Christian authors in later ages)
- Patristics
- Intermediality
- Hermeneutics and exegesis
- Christians and Pagans in Late Antiquity
- Greek and Latin Literature of Antiquity and Late Antiquity
Honours and Awards
- 2017 - 2022 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- 2016 - 2019 Co-Investigator in a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network "The History of Human Freedom and Dignity in Western Civilization" (my share more than 0.5 mio Euros)
- 2012 - 2013 Sir Ron Cooke International Scholarship (Higher Education Academy, UK)
- Since 2011 Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Since 2008 Adjunct Professor of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2008 - 2009 leader of an international and interdisciplinary theme group "The Modern and Postmodern Augustine" at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
- 2006: Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor-in-Residence, UBC, Green College, Vancouver
- 2003 - 2004 Individual Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
- 2003 - 2011 Major Leverhulme Research Grant on "The Reception of Augustine through the Ages" (ca. 570,000 GBP)
- 2000 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 1999 Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1998 - 2000 Heisenberg-Stipendiatin
- 1993 - 2005 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow (Feodor-Lynen-Programm), University College, London, UK
