Alfred Hornung#
| Membership Number: | 3760 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - 2008 Vice Dean, Department of 05: Philosophy and Philology, University of Mainz 2007–2008 Chair of Department of English and Linguistics, University of Mainz
- 2001 - 2005 Member of University Senate, University of Mainz April–May 2005 Dean, Philosophy and Philology, University of Mainz
- 2001 - 2005 Dean of English, American Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz
- 1995 - 1996 Chair of Department of English, University of Mainz
- 1993 - 1996 Vice Dean of English, American Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz
- 1991 - 1995 Member of University Senate, University of Mainz
- 1991 - 1993 Dean of English, American Studies, General and Comparative Linguistics, University of Mainz
- 1989 - 1990 Chair of Department of English, University of Mainz
- 1988 Professor and Chair of English and American Studies, University of Mainz, Germany
- Numerous visting professorships
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative multi-ethnic studies
- Life writing and ecology
- Inter‐ and transculturalism
- Life sciences and life writing
- Modernism, postmodernism
- Transnational American Studies
- Narratology
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung for best dissertation
- 1979 Honorary Citizen of the State of Texas
- 1980 - 1981 Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
- 2004 Permanent Fellow, Center for Cross‐Cultural Studies, Peking University
- 2013 Carl Bode–Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies
- 2014 Research Professorship of State of Rhineland-Palatinate at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
