Pott, Sandra

Born 1973. She studied Political Science, German, History of Art and Philosophy at Hamburg University 1992-1997. In 1998, she received her doctoral degree in Gießen, was a junior research fellow at the at the Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London, 2001/2), a guest professor at the CNRS/ENS Paris (2002/3), a Principal Investigator in the Emmy Noether-programme of the German Research Foundation, and, in 2003, did her "Habilitation" in Hamburg. In 2005, she was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the German Research Foundation and the German Ministry for Education and Science, in 2007 she received the Philip Leverhulme Prize of The Leverhulme Trust. In 2006, she had been appointed as a Reader at King’s College London, the post being transformed into a professorship of German in 2007. She declined the offer of a professorship at Jena University and, since Janury 2008, is the chair of Modern German Literature I at Stuttgart University and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Since 2005, she has been a member of the international expert committee for the Elitenetwork of Bavaria and, since 2006, a member of the programme committee for the Euroscience Open Forum 2008.

Her research focuses on the relation of literature, science and the humanities from 1650 until the present times, poetics and aesthetics, the rhetoric of scientific texts.

Publications (momographs) by Sandra Pott:

• Reformierte Morallehren und schöne Literatur von Jean Barbeyrac bis Christoph Martin Wieland, Tübingen 2002
• Säkularisierung in den Wissenschaften seit der Frühen Neuzeit 1: Medizin, Medizinethik und schöne Literatur vom frühen 17. bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert Berlin, New York 2002
• Poetiken: Poetologische Lyrik, Poetik und Ästhetik von Novalis bis Rilke. Berlin, New York 2004