English
Short biography
Thomas Ernst was born in 1974 in Germany. He studied literature, linguistics and philosophy at the universities of Duisburg, Bochum, Berlin in Germany and Leuven in Belgium. He published the books Popliteratur (2001/2005), Wissenschaft und Macht (ed., 2004), SUBversionen (ed., 2007) and several essays about contemporary German literature and literary theory, e.g. German Pop Literature and Cultural Globalisation (2004). He taught at the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Trier, at the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim and at the universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands). In 2005 he worked as a visiting scholar at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Columbia University of New York. In 2007 he finished his PhD-project on Subversive Concepts of Contemporary German Prose, which has been sponsored by the Hans Böckler Stiftung, at the University of Trier.
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- Columbia University of New York: Department of German Languages and Literatures
- New York University: Deutsches Haus
- University of Wales, Swansea: Tom Cheesman