Vita
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a German-American literary scholar, initiated the first postgraduate program in humanities "Forms of communications as forms of life" in the 1980s and the collaborative research centre "screen media" in Siegen. Today he holds the chair of Comparative Literature at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and is affiliated to the Department of German Studies and the Program in Modern Thought & Literature. He is also associate professor at the Département de Littérature comparée at the Université de Montréal, Directeur d'études associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), professeur attaché at the Collège de France, and fellow at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.