Christoph Bode (born May 13, 1952 in Siegen/ North Rhine-Westphalia) is a literary scholar. His fields are British and American literature, comparative literature, literary theory, poetics, and travel writing, but he is mainly known as a romanticist and a narratologist. He was full professor and chair of Modern English Literature in the Department of English and American Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München until his retirement in March 2018.
Bode is the second child of the headmaster of a private language school and university lecturer (Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Dr. Adolf Bode and his wife Ute Bode (born Kuß). Bode was educated in his home town of Siegen (1959–1971), before reading English and American literature, geography, and philosophy/ pedagogy at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and University College Cardiff (1971–1976). After his graduation from Marburg in 1976 ( state examination), Bode received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1978 (English and American literature, with philosophy/pedagogy as minor subject). This was followed by Bode's alternative service as conscientious objector (1978–1980).
From 1977 to 1986, Bode was assistant professor and, from 1986 to 1992, associate professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany. In 1989/90 he temporarily filled the position of a professor of English and American literature at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany. In 1992 he was made professor of English and American literature at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, and in 1997 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2001, Bode accepted the offer of a chair of English literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, after rejecting a parallel offer from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Since then, Bode was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2012), at Tsinghua University, Beijing and at the University of Sichuan, Chengdu (both in 2015). In 2016 he was Mercator Fellow at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and after his retirement in 2018 Erasmus Scholar at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow and distinguished guest at the Chinese University, Hong Kong in 2019.
Bode is a specialist in British, European, and American Romanticism and Modernist literature. With a background in philosophy and aesthetics (Ästhetik der Ambiguität, 1988), he is also a narratologist (The Novel, 2011: European Research Council project "Narrating Futures") and an expert in poetics. Other facets of his research include literary theory and travel writing. Bode was President of the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik [1] (Society for English Romanticism) 2001 through 2013, since then he has served as Vice-President for International Relation.
Bode is a member of about a dozen learned societies and associations, among them
Bode serves on ca. 15 advisory boards, among them those of the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung, Max Weber Stiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fulbright Commission, Cusanus-Werk and European Romantic Review. He also reviews for Studies in Romanticism, Literature Compass, publishers Routledge and Edinburgh University Press as well as the Leverhulme Trust. He also worked as a reviewer for the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies.
Bode has published 17 monographs, among them
Bode has co-edited 13 collections, among them
Bode has published well over 70 articles, among them
Bode has written over 50 reviews, encyclopedia articles and handbook entries, mainly on romanticism and literary theory.
Christoph Bode (born May 13, 1952 in Siegen/ North Rhine-Westphalia) is a literary scholar. His fields are British and American literature, comparative literature, literary theory, poetics, and travel writing, but he is mainly known as a romanticist and a narratologist. He was full professor and chair of Modern English Literature in the Department of English and American Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München until his retirement in March 2018.
Bode is the second child of the headmaster of a private language school and university lecturer (Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Dr. Adolf Bode and his wife Ute Bode (born Kuß). Bode was educated in his home town of Siegen (1959–1971), before reading English and American literature, geography, and philosophy/ pedagogy at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and University College Cardiff (1971–1976). After his graduation from Marburg in 1976 ( state examination), Bode received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1978 (English and American literature, with philosophy/pedagogy as minor subject). This was followed by Bode's alternative service as conscientious objector (1978–1980).
From 1977 to 1986, Bode was assistant professor and, from 1986 to 1992, associate professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany. In 1989/90 he temporarily filled the position of a professor of English and American literature at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany. In 1992 he was made professor of English and American literature at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, and in 1997 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2001, Bode accepted the offer of a chair of English literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, after rejecting a parallel offer from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Since then, Bode was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2012), at Tsinghua University, Beijing and at the University of Sichuan, Chengdu (both in 2015). In 2016 he was Mercator Fellow at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and after his retirement in 2018 Erasmus Scholar at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow and distinguished guest at the Chinese University, Hong Kong in 2019.
Bode is a specialist in British, European, and American Romanticism and Modernist literature. With a background in philosophy and aesthetics (Ästhetik der Ambiguität, 1988), he is also a narratologist (The Novel, 2011: European Research Council project "Narrating Futures") and an expert in poetics. Other facets of his research include literary theory and travel writing. Bode was President of the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik [1] (Society for English Romanticism) 2001 through 2013, since then he has served as Vice-President for International Relation.
Bode is a member of about a dozen learned societies and associations, among them
Bode serves on ca. 15 advisory boards, among them those of the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung, Max Weber Stiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fulbright Commission, Cusanus-Werk and European Romantic Review. He also reviews for Studies in Romanticism, Literature Compass, publishers Routledge and Edinburgh University Press as well as the Leverhulme Trust. He also worked as a reviewer for the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies.
Bode has published 17 monographs, among them
Bode has co-edited 13 collections, among them
Bode has published well over 70 articles, among them
Bode has written over 50 reviews, encyclopedia articles and handbook entries, mainly on romanticism and literary theory.