Lena Henningsen Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
- 2024- senior lecturer at Heidelberg University
- 2022-2023 academic visitor at the China Center, Oxford University (11 months)
- 2022-2023 senior researcher at Freiburg University
- 2012-2022 Juniorprofessor (non tenure track) at Freiburg University
- 2008-2009 Project Coordinator of the Research Group
- 2008/2009 Winter term: Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Project
- 2004-2012 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2003-2004 Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2001-2004 Library Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University (Serials and Microform Department)
Education
- 2019 PD Habilitation (venia legendi Sinologie), Heidelberg University
- 2004-2008 PhD programme in Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2000-2004 MA programme in Chinese Studies, Musicology and Political Sciences, Heidelberg University
- 2000-2001 Exchange programme at Nanjing Normal University, PRC
- 1997-2000 MA programme in Chinese Studies, Musicology and Political Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Scholarships and Awards (selection)
- 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant “Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China” (ChinaComx,
- 2023 Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
- 2017 ERC Starting Grant “The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China” (ReadChina, )
- 2017–2018 Amalie Baur-Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies of TUM
- 2016 Leopoldina Early Career Award 2016.
- 2013-2018 Member of the German Young Academy
- 2011-2012 Brigitte Schlieben-Lange Scholarship
- 2009 Grant of the Cluster of Excellency “Asia and Europe” for the project “Rethinking Trends" (in cooperation with colleagues from the Popular Culture Research Group).
- 2008 Funding by the Cluster of Excellency „Asia and Europe“ for organisation of the conference „Rethinking Trends“ (Nov. 2008)
- 2008 Young Scholar Award of the European Association of Chinese Studies
- 2008 Funding by the Robert Bosch Stiftung for the project "cooperation with schools"
- 2007 Winner of „Geist Begeistert“ (National university competition for the humanities, funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research) with the project "cooperation with schools"
- 2000-2001 DAAD-Scholarship (German Exchange Foundation) for language training at Nanjing Normal University, PRC
- 2000-2004 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)