Rate My Professor Andree Michaelis-König

Michaelis-König's research interests include Friendship Studies, German-Jewish literary history, contemporary literature, German Enlightenment and Vormärz, literature and migration, media of remembrance after the Holocaust, Transcultural Studies, intersectionality, and gender. He is promoter of the project "Intersections of Jewish and Working-Class Emancipation in 19th Century German Writing (1830-1860): Affinities and Differences in Revolutionary Times." His teaching covers courses such as "Literature and Friendship: Negotiating Alterity, Gender, and Community," "German Cultural History from the Enlightenment to the Present," "Deutsche Kulturgeschichte," and "German-Language Literature: Fundamentals, Terms, Analyses" in Linguistics and Literary Studies programs. Key recent publications feature "Friendship as sisterhood: Fanny Lewald and Therese von Bacheracht or practicing friendship among women" (Oxford German Studies, 2025), "The productive force of friendship in literary history" (Oxford German Studies, 2025, with Tobias Heinrich), co-edited special issue of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies (2024, with Philipp Lenhard), and co-edited "Schriftstellerinnen des Umbruchs" (German Life and Letters, 2024). He serves as voting member on the Department Council of Literature, deputy on the Faculty Council of Arts and Philosophy, and on several education commissions.

Professional Email: andree.michaelis-könig@uantwerpen.be