Bernd Engler (born 21 April 1954) is a German

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and literary scholar. Since October 2006 he is President and Vice-Chancellor of the

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Early life and education

Engler was educated at the

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, Germany, and the

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. He graduated in English and German at the University of Freiburg in 1980. After his doctorate in

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he started a postdoctoral qualification which he finished in 1989.

Career

In 1989, Engler became a visiting professor at the

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. After working as a visiting scholar at the

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, UK, and as an interim professor of American studies at the

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, Germany, he returned to the United States. In 1991–1992 he worked as a research fellow at the

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at Chapel Hill. Since 1992 he has been professor of American studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 2006 Engler was elected president and vice-chancellor of the University of Tubingen. He was re-elected in 2011. In his term the University of Tübingen was successful in the

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Other activities

* University Hospital of Tübingen, deputy chairman of the Supervisory BoardSupervisory Board
University Hospital of Tübingen. *

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft). The institute is studying signal and information processing ...

, member of the board of trustees

Publications

*American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives. Hg. Günter Leypold und Bernd Engler. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. *A Companion to American Cultural History: From the Colonial Period to the End of the 19th Century. Hg. Bernd Engler und Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT, 2009. *Key Concepts in American Cultural History: From the Colonial Period to the End of the 19th Century. Hg. Bernd Engler und Oliver Scheiding. 2nd edition. Trier: WVT, 2007. *Millennial Thought in America: Historical and Intellectual Contexts, 1630-1860. Hg. Bernd Engler, Joerg O. Fichte und Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT, 2002. *Re-Visioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction. Hg. Bernd Engler und Oliver Scheiding. Trier: WVT, 1998. *Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature. Hg. Bernd Engler und Kurt Müller. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1994.

References

External links

*https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/1645 *https://web.archive.org/web/20170404215517/https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/facilities/university-management/president.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Engler, Bernd 1954 births German literary critics Academic staff of the University of Tübingen University of Freiburg alumni Alumni of the University of Kent Living people Heads of universities in Germany