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Torsten Hoffmann

Prof. Dr.

Chair of the Board
Department of Literary Studies / Modern German Literature II

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+49 711 685 82801
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70174 Stuttgart
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Room: 2.043

Prof. Dr. Torsten Hoffmann has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Stuttgart since October 2018 and Executive Director of the IZKT since May 2026.

The literary scholar studied German and Social Studies at Georg-August University in Göttingen, where he earned his doctorate in 2004 and completed his habilitation in 2013. After holding positions as a research assistant in Göttingen and a junior professorship at Goethe University Frankfurt, he accepted a position in Stuttgart in 2018.

Hoffmann has an extensive international network and has served as a visiting scholar at Sorbonne-Paris IV, the University of Toronto, and Keio University in Tokyo, as well as at universities in Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Norway, China, and the United States. Since 2020, he has headed the DAAD-funded German Studies Institute Partnership between Stuttgart and Beihang University in Beijing. In addition, he has been actively involved for many years in the International Rilke Society, of which he has been president since 2021.

  • Literature and Aesthetics from the 18th to the 21st Century
  • History of the Body in Literature
  • History of the Interview in Literature and Culture
  • Contemporary Literature and the Literary Scene
  • New Right Literature and Literary Policy
  • Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies and International Academic Collaboration
  • Editions

University of Stuttgart

Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Literary Studies

Chair of the Board of Directors of the IZKT (International Center for Cultural and Technological Research) (Info)

Chair of the German Studies Examination Board

Member of the University of Stuttgart’s Cooperation Council

Co-Head of the PSE German Department

Director of the DAAD-funded German Studies Institute Partnership between Stuttgart and Beihang University, Beijing

 

Other

President of the International Rilke Society (Info) 

Co-editor of the ‘Blätter der Rilke-Gesellschaft’ (Info) 

Co-editor of the ‘Kultur und Technik’ series (Info)

Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the journal ‘KulturPoetik’ (Info)

Jury member for the 2024 German Book Prize (Info)

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