Univ.-Prof. Dr.Dietrich Scholler

Current position: Full professor (W3), permanent
Current institution: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
ORCID: 0009-0009-4527-691X

Degree program: French, Italian, German, Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Universities of Vienna, Tours, Venice, First State Examination (1. Staatsexamen) 1992, Second State Examination (2. Staatsexamen) 1994, abilitazione, scuole secondarie (secondary school level), Bergamo (Italy), 2000

Doctorate: July 2001, FU Berlin, Romanische Philologie, supervisors: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Neumeister, Prof. Dr. Klaus Hempfer, Free University of Berlin

Habilitation: January 2011, RU Bochum, Romanische Philologie, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Behrens

Academic career

• 04/2013–: Full professor (W3) of Romance Literatures (French, Italian), JGU Mainz, Romanisches Seminar
• 2011–2013: Interim chair position (W3), JGU Mainz, Romanisches Seminar
• 2004–2011: Senior lecturer (Akademischer Rat), RU Bochum, Romanisches Seminar
• 2001–2004: Post-doctoral researcher, LMU München, Institut für Italienische Philologie
• 2001: Researcher, DFG, "Die Italienbestände der Anna Amalia Bibliothek", Bonn
• 2000: Researcher, Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung, Potsdam
• 1994–2000: Researcher (Wiss. Mitarbeiter), Free University, Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie
• 1992–1994: Teacher in training (Studienreferendar), Hermann-Hesse-Gymnasium, Berlin

Engagement in the Research System

Grants

2026–2029: Project "Throne and Nation. Figurations of France in Early Modern Reports of the Royal Entrance", funded by the DFG (funding number 571461099)

2021–2025: Project "Moving Bodies: Figurations of the National in Early Modern Literature and Art in France and the Netherlands", funded by the Forschungsinitiative des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz (Part of the Project "Dynamics of the National in the Early Modern Period")

2025: International Conference "Francesco Mastriani. La commedia umana", funded by the DFG and by the RMU-Alliance Frankfurt–Mainz–Darmstadt

2024–2025: Lecture Series "Images of Catholicism in modern Italy", funded by the Akademie des Bistums Mainz

2022: Workshop "La commémoration du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy", funded by the Université de Bourgogne and JGU Mainz

2021: Lecture Series "Figurations of the National (14th–19th Centuries)", funded by the Forschungsplattform Frühe Neuzeit (JGU Mainz)

2019: Lecture Series "La Serenissima – The Lion Republic: Art, Culture, Church and Carnival in Venice", funded by the Landesmuseum Mainz and the Evangelische Akademie

2018: Workshop "Nation-building through language and literature", funded by the JGU Mainz

2018: Deutscher Italianistentag in Mainz, funded by the DFG, Ambasciata d'Italia Berlino, Consolato Generale d'Italia Francoforte, Istituto di Cultura di Stoccarda, IAL = Innovazione Apprendimento Lavoro Germania, Freunde der Universität

2017: Study Day "Intrecci italoamericani", funded by the IAK Italien and the Obama Institute

2016: International Conference "Dream Knowledge and Dream Poetics from Dante to Descartes", funded by the DFG

2016: Workshop "Antonio Pennacchi", funded by Istituto di Cultura di Francoforte

2015–2016: Lecture Series "Parthenope – Neapolis – Napoli", funded by the Istituto di Cultura di Francoforte

2013: Workshop on computer-aided text analysis, funded by the JGU Mainz

Fellowships

Speaker of the Forum for Italian Studies (JGU Mainz), member of the steering committee of the Italy Forum of the Rhine-Main Universities Alliance, Editorial Board (ERC-Project "Poetry in the Digital Age”, Uni Hamburg), Editorial Board (Series of Publications "Classicism and Beyond”, De Gruyter)

Reviewer for journals and publishing companies

Romanistisches Jahrbuch, Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, Philologie im Netz, Der Fremdsprachenunterricht, Forum Junge Romanistik, Literary Linguistics, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Reviewer for research funding

Akkreditierungs-, Certifizierungs- und Qualitätsinstitut (ACQUIN), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Schweizerischer Nationsfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes