F.J. (Florian) Lippert, Dr

Dr Florian Lippert is Associate Professor (UHD) with ius promovendi, Vice Chair and Profile Coordinator of European Culture and Literature, and Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics (DemCP) at the University of Groningen. Furthermore, he is Programme Director of the Graduate School for the Humanities at the Faculty of Arts. Before joining the UG, Florian had lecturer positions at King's College London, Sungshin University Seoul and the University of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. He has been guest lecturer at Harvard University and Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú and, most recently, Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Amsterdam. Florian has served as an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), as Selection Board Member for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and as a reviewer for Journal of European Studies, Politique européenne/ European politics, Austrian Studies and for Brill/Rodopi.

Florian is the author of Selbstreferenz in Literatur und Wissenschaft (Wilhelm Fink, 2013) and editor of Self-Reflection in Literature (Brill/Rodopi 2020, with Marcel Schmid) and has published widely on culture and politics, modern and contemporary literature and film, the European "migrant crisis", Discourse Theory and Social Systems Theory. His current research focuses on notions of “European Culture” and constructions of cultural "normalcy" in societal, political and cultural discourses.

Florian has supervised PhD projects about literature, art, politics, philosophy and related fields, and welcomes supervision requests in these and related areas.