TIM MEHIGAN
Tim Mehigan is a senior professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), with wide-ranging research expertise in German and European literature and thought, history of ideas, hermeneutics and special expertise on particular authors, works, genres and periods.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Appointments
Appointments
2013–
2017–19
2014–19
2018
2013–15
2011–12
2010–13
2010–12
2003–2007
2003–
2003–2004
1997–2001
1996
1994–5
1988–1994
Professor of German; School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland (UQ)
Professor of German and Deputy Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, UQ
Visiting Professor, Institute for Comparative and German Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
Research Fellow, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, USA
Professor of German; Head of School of Languages and Cultures, UQ
Humanities Panellist, Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF), New Zealand
Professor of Languages, Department of Languages and Cultures, U of Otago, NZ
Honorary Professor, School of Comparative Cultural Studies, UQ
Professor of Languages and Head, Department of Languages and Cultures, U of Otago, NZ
President, German Studies Association of Australia
Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities
Associate Professor of German, School of Languages, University of Melbourne
Associate Professor of German and Head, Department of German, Swedish and Russian, University Senior Lecturer of German and Head, German Program, School of Languages, University of Melbourne
Humboldt Fellow (postdoc), University of Munich, Germany
Lecturer in German, Department of Germanic Studies and Russian, University of Melbourne, Australia
Education
1994-95
1982–87
1985–86
1981–82
1978–81
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Munich, Germany
PhD in German literature, University of Sydney, Australia
(PhD published under the title Text as Contract 1988)
Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany
Semester Scholarship, University of Trier, Germany
BA Hons (First Class) in German, Political Science,
History and Indonesian, University of Sydney
Current Projects
Edited collections in preparation
Falduto, A. and Mehigan, T. 2022. The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller. New York: Palgrave MacMillan (under contract)
Mehigan, T., Moser C. 2022. Immanent Hermeneutics as Ethics.
Monographs in preparation
Mehigan, T., Moser C., Boletsi M. and Geyer, S. 2022-23. Literary Responses to Epistemological Crisis in Modern Discourse Networks.