Eva Horn#
Photo: Barbara Mair
| Membership Number: | 7111 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/eva-horn/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6190-1038 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 head of the Vienna Anthropocene Network
- since 2009 Professor (full) Department of German, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2016 Distinguised Max Kade Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York
- 2005 - 2009 Professur (associate, full), Department of German, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1999 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Intellectual history
- Environmentalism
- Comparative literature
- Political secrecy
- Modern German literature
- Disaster fiction
- Anthropocene
Honours and Awards
- 2025 - 2026 Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of Advanced Studies
- 2024 Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor at Berkeley University
- 2021 - 2022 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2020 - 2024 Project Grant: Landscape, Life, Form. A Poetics of the Anthropocene in German Literature (FWF, Austria)
- 2020 Heinrich Mann Prize, German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
- 2019 Research Fellow at Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich
- 2016 Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
- 2016 Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor, German Department, Columbia Univ.
- 2014 - 2017 Project Grant: Climate’s Time: Literary Modernity and the Temporalization of Nature, by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany)
- 2012 Research Fellow, German Department, Columbia University, USA
- 2009 Book Award for Der geheime Krieg, Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels, Germany
- 2008 Research Fellow, EXC 16, University of Konstanz, Germany
- 2002 - 2003 Post-Doctoral Grant by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at New York University
- 2001 - 2006 Elected Member of Die Junge Akademie, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany
