[5] He has served on several advisory boards, including Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) at Berlin,[6] the Erich-Auerbach-Institute at Cologne[7] and the Hans Blumenberg Society.
[8] Campe has held advisory board positions in journals, including the Monatshefte, the Bucknell Goethe series, Athenäum, and Studia Theodisca.
[11] Other research interests include the history of rhetoric and poetics in aesthetics, theories of speech act, affect, and physiognomy.
[12][13] In literary history, Campe has dealt with reception studies, the Baroque theater, theories of the novel, and the intersection of literature and law.
He has written on Moritz, Racine, Gryphius, Baumgarten, Goethe, Lichtenberg, Hölderlin, Kleist, Büchner, Kafka, Lukács, Walser and Musil.