Christoph Bode

Bode was educated in his home town of Siegen (1959–1971), before reading English and American literature, geography, and philosophy/pedagogy at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and University College Cardiff (1971–1976).

With a background in philosophy and aesthetics (Ästhetik der Ambiguität, 1988), he is also a narratologist (The Novel, 2011; European Research Council project "Narrating Futures") and an expert in poetics.

Bode was President of the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik[1] (Society for English Romanticism) 2001 through 2013, since then he has served as Vice-President for International Relations.

15 advisory boards, among them those of the European Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung, Max Weber Stiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fulbright Commission, Cusanus-Werk and European Romantic Review.

He also reviews for Studies in Romanticism, Literature Compass, publishers Routledge and Edinburgh University Press as well as the Leverhulme Trust.