Liliane Weissberg, 12 November 2020
Die Rückkehr in die Vereinigten Staaten verlief nicht wie erwartet. Ich hatte das amerikanische Frühjahrssemester an der American Academy in Berlin verbracht und als die Covid-19-Pandemie Deutschland erreichte, befand ich mich dort im Lockdown.
University of Pennsylvania
Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught as a Visiting Professor at universities in the United States, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including from the American Council of Learned Societies and of the Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, and has received the German Alexander von Humboldt Prize for her life's work. She received the American Academy’s Berlin Prize in Spring 2020.
Among her most recent book publications there are Münzen, Hände, Noten, Finger: Berliner Hofjuden und die Erfindung einer deutschen Musikkultur (Graz 2018) and Nachträglich, grundlegend: Der Kommentar als Denkform in der jüdischen Moderne von Hermann Cohen bis Jacques Derrida (with Andreas Kilcher, Göttingen 2018). In the summer of 2018 she worked at CAS on a critical edition of the writings of Benjamin Veitel Ephraim (1742–1811).