Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Ben Hutchinson
- Qualifications:
- BA (Bristol); MSt (Oxon); DPhil (Oxon); PGCE (Kent)
- Position:
- Professor of European Literature / Director, University of London Institute in Paris
- Institute:
- Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
- Location:
- Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
- Email address:
- ben.hutchinson@ulip.lon.ac.uk
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Culture, Language and Literature (German), Literatures in a modern language
- Regions:
- England, Europe
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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My research ranges widely across the history of ideas, with a particular specialism in German and comparative literature. I have published seven books, three edited volumes and over a hundred essays and articles, on subjects including Rilke, Sebald, lateness, and midlife. I am also the author of the Very Short Introduction to comparative literature.
My work has won a number of awards, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize, and has been translated into numerous languages. I have held visiting professorships across Europe, and am the German Editor for the Times Literary Supplement. I am a Fellow of the Academy of Europe, and a member of the Advisory Panel of the Leverhulme Trust.
- Languages:
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Spoken Written French Fluent Fluent German Fluent Fluent
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 10-Oct-2023 On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life Monographs
12-Oct-2020 The Midlife Mind: Literature and the Art of Ageing Monographs
22-Mar-2018 Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction Monographs
11-Aug-2016 Lateness and Modern European Literature Monographs
05-Sep-2011 Modernism and Style Monographs
07-Sep-2009 W.G. Sebald. Die dialektische Imagination Monographs
05-Sep-2006 Rilke's Poetics of Becoming Monographs
- Research Projects & Supervisions
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Research projects:
Details Grammars of Comparison My principal current project is a book provisionally entitled Grammars of Comparison. Based on both my research and teaching, the idea is to reconceive comparative literature not as a second-order, critical discipline, but as a first-order, creative undertaking. What does it mean for writers to compare, rather than to be compared?
Available for doctoral supervision: Yes
- Professional Affiliations
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Professional affiliations:
Name Activity British Comparative Literature Association Times Literary Supplement Leverhulme Trust