Daniel Fulda

Professor Daniel Fulda holds the chair of Modern German Literature at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he also directs the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA) board. He has held visiting professorships at institutions including EPHE/EHESS (Paris), University of Notre Dame (USA), and ENS (Lyon). Since 2016, he has been an Ordinary Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, co-directing the PROPYLÄEN interacademic project on Goethe's biographical works since 2023.

• Key Research: Conceptual history of Enlightenment, canon formation in German literature, visual epistemology of 18th-century knowledge systems
• Recent Publications: The Invention of Enlightenment (2022), Since When and Why 'German Classics'? (2021), Enlightenment for the Eye (2020)
• Academic Leadership: Directed IZEA (2007-2020), co-edits international research platforms, collaborates across disciplines

His work interrogates the political dimensions of Enlightenment through diverse methodological approaches, tracing how historical concepts and visual representations shape contemporary debates about knowledge systems, societal reform, and cultural memory.