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Markus Messling (born 8 December 1975) is a German literary critic and Vice Director of Centre Marc Bloch, the Franco-German centre for research in the humanities and social sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin. His main research interests are in French/Francophone, Italian and comparative literature, aesthetics, literary anthropology and cultural philosophy, as well as the history and theory of philology.

Work and career
His research into the confluence of European textual culture, the anthropology of language and racial logic in the 19th century inscribes a specific question into the contemporary “philological turn” of textual scholarship, which has often been understood as a return to ‘pure’ erudition, by interrogating which tradition a prospective philology can refer to that can do justice to the demand for a self-reflective practice. Since 2015 he holds a habilitation in Romance Philology and Comparative Literature from Potsdam University. His book, starting from Boileau and early modern discourse on language and texts, includes deep analysis of philological thought in Destutt de Tracy, Hegel, Friedrich Schlegel, Michele Amari, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Jean-François Champollion, Arthur de Gobineau and Ernest Renan, and was published as ''Gebeugter Geist. Rassismus und Erkenntnis in der modernen europäischen Philologie'' (Göttingen 2016).

Markus Messling studied Romance and German Philology and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the University Jean Moulin – Lyon III. From 2003 to 2007 he was researcher in the project „Wilhelm von Humboldt and France“ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2007 he completed his doctorate in Romance Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin. In his doctoral thesis ''Pariser Orientlektüren. Zu Wilhelm von Humboldts Theorie der Schrift'' (Paderborn, Wien, Zürich 2008) he addressed the reception of French philology and philosophy in Wilhelm von Humboldt’s theory of writing as well as the significant “omission” of the latter in Jacques Derrida’s grammatology. Central to the discussion of the anthropology of writing in this context is Humboldt’s correspondence with Jean-François Champollion, which Messling edited for the first time in his book.

His book ''Champollions Hieroglyphen. Philologie und Weltaneignung'' (Berlin 2012; French translation 2015) analyses the ideological and material implications of Champollion’s philological archaeology und engages with the emergence of a critical consciousness within a universalistic European theory of civilization, how it appears within early colonial experiences of loss.

Markus Messling was Programme Director “Science and Research” at the renowned ZEIT Foundation in Hamburg (2007/2008), and was a postdoctoral fellow at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in 2008/2009 (funded by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the German Academic Exchange Service). From 2009 to 2014 he was Assistant Professor at Potsdam University and directing an Emmy Noether Excellence Grant on „Philology and Racism in the 19th Century“ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2011 he is also spokesperson (with Franck Hofmann) of the international interdisciplinary research network „Transmed! Pensée méditerranéenne et conscience européenne“, realized in cooperation with the Collège International de Philosophie Paris.

Markus Messling is a member of the collegium of “Zukunftsphilologie. Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship” (Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin) and a founding editor of Philological Encounters (Leiden, Boston: Brill). Since 2015 he is also an editor of Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (München: C.H. Beck), the German Journal of the History of Ideas.

Awards and Grants
Cooptation as Full Member, Société Asiatique de Paris (2011)

Brandenburg Postdoc Award for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences (2010)

Tiburtius Prize of the Universities of Berlin for outstanding PhD dissertations (2008)

German Academic Scholarship Foundation (1998-2003)

Fellowships and Visiting Professorships
Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London (2014)

Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge (2014)

Visiting Professor at EHESS Paris (2011, 2015)

Visiting Professor at Kobe University in Japan (2016)

Monographs
2016: ''Gebeugter Geist. Rassismus und Erkenntnis in der modernen europäischen Philologie''. Göttingen: Wallstein (Reihe „Philologien: Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte“).

2015: ''Les Hiéroglyphes de Champollion. Philologie et conquête du monde''. Éd. révisée et augmentée par un chapitre sur Baudelaire et le symbolisme, traduction de Kaja Antonowicz. Grenoble: ELLUG (Collection « Vers l’Orient »).

2012: ''Champollions Hieroglyphen. Philologie und Weltaneignung''. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.

2008: ''Pariser Orientlektüren. Zu Wilhelm von Humboldts Theorie der Schrift.'' Nebst der Erstedition des Briefwechsels zwischen Wilhelm von Humboldt und Jean-François Champollion le jeune (1824-1827). Paderborn, München, Wien, Zürich: Schöningh (Humboldt-Studien).

Edited volumes and special issues
2017 (Ed. with Islam Dayeh, Ta’al Hever u. Elizabeth Eva Johnston): Formations of the Semitic: Race, Religion, and Language in Modern European Scholarship (=Philological Encounters 2/2017). Leiden, Boston: Brill.

2017 (Ed. with Franck Hofmann): ''Fluchtpunkt. Das Mittelmeer und die europäische Krise''. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.

2016 (Ed. with A. Buschmann / J. Drews / A. Kraume / T. Kraft / G. Müller): Literatur leben. Festschrift Ottmar Ette. Frankfurt/Main, Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana.

2015: (Ed. with F. Hofmann): Leeres Zentrum. Das Mittelmeer und die literarische Moderne. An Anthology. With drawings by Paul Klee. Ed. and with a postface by F. Hofmann und M. Messling. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.

2015 (Ed. with Philipp Krämer and Markus A. Lenz): ''Rassedenken in der Sprach- und Textreflexion. Kommentierte Grundlagentexte des langen 19. Jahrhunderts.'' Paderborn: Fink.

2013 (Ed. with Ottmar Ette): ''Wort Macht Stamm. Rassismus und Determinismus in der Philologie (18./19. Jh.)''. München: Fink.

2013 (Ed.): Maurice Olender: ''Die Sprachen des Paradieses. Religion, Rassentheorie und Textkultur''. Revised edition, ed. and with a preface by M. Messling. Translation from the French by Peter D. Krumme. With the preface to the first edition by Jean-Pierre Vernant, and an essay by Jean Starobinski. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.

2011 (Ed. with Dieter Läpple and Jürgen Trabant): Stadt und Urbanität – Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.

2009 (Ed. with Ute Tintemann): ''„Der Mensch ist nur Mensch durch Sprache“. Zur Sprachlichkeit des Menschen''. München: Fink.

Selected Articles
2017: W. von Humboldt’s critique of a Hegelian understanding of modernity. A contribution to the debate on postcolonialism. In: Forum for Modern Language Studies 53-1/2017 (Oxford UP): 35-46.

2016 (with Franck Hofmann): Centre vide. La Méditerranée et la modernité littéraire. In: [https://babel.revues.org/4359 ''Babel. Littératures plurielles'' 32/2015: 281-307].

2016: Anthropologie du Mal et politique de la littérature : Michel Houellebecq et Roberto Bolaño. In: Revue des Sciences Humaines 321 (=Le savoir historique du roman contemporain): 51-66.

since 2015 (with Kurt Mueller-Vollmer): Wilhelm von Humboldt. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

2012: Philologie et racisme. A propos de l’historicité dans les sciences des langues et des textes. In: [http://www.cairn.info/revue-annales-english-2012-1.htm ''Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales'' 67/1: 153-182] [English : 2012: Philology and Racism. On Historicity in the Sciences of Language and Text]

2011: Representation and Power: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat’s Critical Philology. In: Journal of Oriental Studies 44/1-2 (Stanford/Hong Kong): 1-23.