!!Monika Schmitz - Emans - Curriculum Vitae
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*__1956__ Born in Leverkusen
*__1975__ High school graduation
*__1975__ Studies in Bonn (Germanic, Philosophy, Italian Studies, Education)
*__1980__ First state examination for teaching in secondary education in German and philosophy (also part of the test in Education)
*__1984__ PhD in Germanistik 
*__1983-1989__ Research Fellow at Beda Allemann (Germanic Studies at the University of Bonn)
*__1989/90__ Lecturer at the University of Bonn (German Literature)
*__1988/89-1994__ (with interruptions) Lecturer at the University of Essen (General and Comparative Literature)
*__1991__ Lecturer at the University of Jena (German Literature)
*__1992__ Habilitation in Bonn ("Scripture and absence." historical paradigms to a poetics of the deciphering and writing) - Submission of dissertation in __1991__, Habilitation Colloquium July __1992__, Inaugural Lecture December __1992__.
*__1992/93__ Scientific assistant at the Germanic Institute of the University of Bonn
*__1992__  Chair of Modern European Literature at the Open University of Hagen GHS - appointment in December 1992
*__1995__ Professor of Comparative Literature at the Ruhr-University Bochum (recruitment October 1995)
*__1996__ Election to the board of the German Society of Comparative Literature (DGAVL)
*__1997__ Election to the Board of the International Society for Comparative Studies (International Comparative Literature Association ICLA)
*__2002__ Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA)
*__1999-2005__ Chairman of the German Society of General and Comparative Literature
*__2005__ Member of Academia Europaea
*__2007__ President of the Jean-Paul-Society
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