Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 1969 BA in German and Spanish, National University of Ireland
- 1971 MA in German, National University of Ireland
- 1976 Dr. phil. University of Basle, CH
Employment
- 1975 - 1989 Lecturer in German, University of Reading
- 1989 - 2013 Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford; Faculty Lecturer in German, University of Oxford
- 1999 Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2012 Chair of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
- 2013 - 2016 Project Leader, ‘Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800’ (HERA-funded collaboration between UK, Sweden, Poland and Germany)
Major Fellowships and Awards
- 1986 - 1987 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (renewed 1998)
- 1997 - 1999 British Academy Reader in the Humanities
- 2004 - 2005 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
- 2012 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2016 Awarded Honorary DLitt by the National University of Ireland
- 2018 - 2019 Fellow of the Institut D'Etudes Avancees, Paris