Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit#

Present and Previous Positions

• Since 2016 Senior Professor, FU Berlin
• 2010 - 2015 Director, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin
• 1996 - 2004 Director, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
• Since 1991 Professor (Chair) of Japanese Studies (Literature and Cultural Studies), FU
• 1986 - 1991 Professor (Chair) for Contemporary Japanese Studies, Trier University
• 1985 - 1986 Associate Professor for Japanese Literature, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

• Genre theory
• Modern and contemporary literature and culture of Japan in its traditional and intercultural relations
• Sociology of language
• World literature
• Comparative Literature
• Autobiography and autofiction
• Lexicography
• History of Japan-related scholarship
• Discourses of cultural/national uniqueness
• Food and hospitality studies
• Translation Studies

• 2014 NIHU (National Institutes for the Humanities) Prize in Japanese Studies (Japan)
• 2014 Academic Prize for Culinary Studies (Wissenschaftspreis Kulinaristik)
• 2013 Member of Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences (Halle)
• 2011 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
• 2001 Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize of the DFG
• 1995 Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Cross of Merit on a Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany)
• 1995 Member of Academia Europaea
• 1993 Founding Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin)
• 1992 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of DFG
• Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 1985 apl. Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 1980 - 1985 Heisenberg scholarship of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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