Jens Martin Gurr

Jens Martin Gurr is Professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His most recent books are Enlightenment Controversies: Literary Self-Critique and Present-Day Debates (de Gryuter, 2026; forthcoming) and Understanding Public Debates: What Literary Studies Can Do (Routledge, 2024). He is a member of the UDE University Council and of the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation. In research, teaching and administration, a consistent concern has been to define and strengthen the role of the humanities in academia and in society generally.