Robert Matthias Erdbeer

Robert Matthias Erdbeer is currently Interim Professor at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Münster and is an International Research Fellow at the New Europe College (NEC) in Bucharest, where he is working on a project on literary model research. He was Research Coordinator of the Münster DFG Research Training Group »Literary Form. History and Culture of Aesthetic Modelling« from 2013 to 2015, a Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois in 2012 and a Fellow at the IFK – International Research Centre for Cultural Studies in Vienna and the CAS –Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. His current research interests are literary model research and esoteric modernity.

Robert Matthias Erdbeer the Chairperson (with Reinhard Wendler) of the Society for Model Research (GFMF) at the Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques and is working on a project on transdisciplinary model research focusing on literary models.