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Prof. Dr. Sandro Jung

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Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
English Literature

External Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019

Last Update: 31.08.2019

Curriculum Vitae

Sandro Jung is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and has held posts and visiting professorships at the Universities of Salford, Ghent, Göteborg, and Hunan. Most recently, he has been the recipient of a senior fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as part of which he was hosted by the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel where he curated a major exhibition on eighteenth-century literary book illustration, “Kleine artige Kupfer.” His research has generously been supported by fellowships awarded, among others, by the American Antiquarian Society, Dumbarton Oaks, the Forschungszentrum Gotha, the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, the Houghton Library, Harvard, the Library Company of Philadelphia, Princeton University Library, and the University of Strasbourg’s USIAS. He previously held a Junior EURIAS Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. His primary areas of scholarly interest are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British (and German) literature, historical media studies, book history, and the centrality of illustration studies within the discipline of literary studies. He is a Past President of the East-Central American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, the General Editor of the Lehigh UP series “Studies in Text and Print Culture,” and the Editor of the Taylor & Francis journal, ANQ.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project