Andree Michaelis-König is Professor of Modern German Literature and Culture at the University of Antwerp. He holds a venia docendi in Modern German Literature at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and a PhD earned at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include Friendship Studies, German-Jewish literary history, contemporary literature, German Enlightenment, German Premarch, literature and migration, the media of remembrance after the Holocaust, Transcultural Studies, intersectionality and gender.