Prof. Dr. Mechthild Albert
Languages, Romance studies
Languages
English literary and cultural studies
Literary attention
Cognitive literary studies
The aesthetics and history of fascination
British drama, esp. Shakespeare
English literature and culture (16th – 21st century with a research focus on the early modern period, the 18th century, Gothic fiction and modernism)
Intermediality
Literary and cultural theory
Elected member of the Junge Akademie (Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities), 2011-2016
Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2009 – 2011
Fellowship, Fast-Track Programme, Robert Bosch Foundation, 2010 – 2012
PhD-scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 2003 – 2006
Stuart Atkins Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 2001 – 2002
Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 2000 – 2002
English, German
Co-spokesperson for the working group "Science Policy" within the Junge Akademie (academy of young scientists), 2015 – 2016
Member of the executive committee of the Gutenberg Council for Young Researchers, Mainz University, 2013 – 2015
Chair of the Junge Akademie (Young Academy of Sciences and the Humanities) within the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2013 – 2014
Member of the executive committee of the Junge Akademie, 2012 – 2014
Jury member for the international, interdisciplinary photo competition "Visions and Images of Fascination: Sciences and Humanities Visualized", 2012
Member of the Research Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), since 2011-2016
Member of the Advisory Board to the International Journal of Literary Linguistics
Reviewer for the German National Academic Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Robert Bosch Foundation
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Languages, Romance studies
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology
Languages, Syntactic theory
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Arts and Cultural Studies