Curriculum vitae (abridged version)

Prof. Dr. Ruth Florack, whose academic field is German language and literature, has held the position of Vice-President of Göttingen University since October 1, 2013.
October 2011 to July 2012, Associate at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg
April 2008 to March 2010, Vice-Dean / Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
March 2006 Visiting Fellow lecturing in Modern German Literature at Nanjing University / China
2005 Call to Professorship in German Philology / Modern German Literature at the University of Göttingen
2004 Habilitation in Modern German Literature Studies and Comparative Literature Studies at the University of Stuttgart
1998-2004 Research Associate with Prof. Dr. Horst Thomé (Stuttgart)
1998 Award of Prof. Dr. Robert Minder Prize
1995-1998 Researcher working within the Volkswagen Stiftung-funded project ("Das Fremde und das Eigene")
1994 Conferral of Doctorate (Stuttgart)
1989-1993 DAAD-Lektorship for German Language, Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies at the Université de Rouen
1987-1988 Teacher of German as a foreign language in Arcachon
Previously: degree studies in German, Romance Studies and Education at the Universities of Münster and Toulouse