Michael Scheffel
Michael Scheffel (born 27 February 1958, Frankfurt) is a professor for the history of modern German literature and more generally of Literary sciences at Wuppertal University. He is also a co-editor of Text + kritik. Life. After successful completion of his school career in Frankfurt Scheffel studied German Literature and linguistics, Romance studies and Art history at , Tours and Göttingen. He obtained his Doctorate in 1988 at Göttingen. His thesis was published in 1990 under the title "Magischer Realismus. Die Geschichte eines Begriffes und ein Versuch seiner Bestimmung". He remained at Göttingen as a research assistant, obtaining  a Habilitation (promotion/qualification) in 1995 in German studies. Internationally he has been a guest lecturer at universities in Birmingham, Coimbra, Dublin, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Pécs, Peking and Szeged. Since Autumn 2008 he has been Vice-Rector for Research, Funding and Graduate support at the University of Wuppertal.