Research interests

Dr Alexander Weber’s academic disciplines are Germanic philology and philosophy. He specialises in early modern literature, but he also has research interests in the 18th, 19th and 20th century concentrating on areas such as rhetoric, reception theory, theology and Neo-Latin.

More recently he has been exploring Anglo-German cultural relations and the history of Germanistik in Britain arguing, for example, that the co-founder of Birkbeck, University of London, Thomas Hodgskin was a pioneer of German Studies in Britain.

Before Alexander started his academic career he worked as a journalist on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and has since published about 60 articles and reviews mainly on academic life and debates in Britain a number of which were reprinted as articles in books (Wissenschaftsjahrbuch, Frankfurt: Insel paperback 1997ff.).  He works closely with a number of PhD students on topics related to his own research.