The advisory board advises members of the Graduate School. The board meets once a year in Berlin for separate meetings with grantees and board members to discuss developments at the Graduate School. Additionally, the board members participate in the FSGS annual conference and contribute proactively.

Advisory Board members

Swati Acharya
Professor at and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Coordinator at German Section at the Savitribai Phule Pune University

Aris Fioretos
Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University in Stockholm, comparatist, writer and translator  

Catriona Macleod
Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the College and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago

Kenichi Mishima
Professor of Philosophy, Tokyo Keizai Universität,
Dr. h. c. Freie Universität Berlin

Glenn W. Most
Retired Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa;
Regular Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago;
External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Janet A. Walker
Professor of Comparative Literature, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Former Members

Nicholas Boyle
Schröder Professor of German, Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge, UK

Elisabeth Bronfen
Professor of English and American Literature, English Seminar, University Zurich, Switzerland

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Albert Guerard Professor of Literature, Department of French and Italian Literature and Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, U.S.A.

Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique;
Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

David E. Wellbery
LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, U.S.A.