Germanist Thomas Boyken appointed

Dr. Thomas Boyken has been appointed Junior Professor of Children's and Youth literature at the Institute of German Studies.

He was previously a junior lecturer in modern German literature at the Department of German Language and Literatures of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Boyken studied German language and literature and sports science at the University of Oldenburg, where he passed his First State Examination in 2006 and received his PhD in 2012. From 2009 to 2014, he worked as a lecturer at the Institute of German Studies. Research stays took him to the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. From 2013 to 2015 Boyken worked with the English-language bibliographical journal ”The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies”. Since October 2018 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Hölderlin Society in Tübingen. Since July 2020 he has been director of the Oldenburg Research Unit for Children’s and Youth Literature (OlFoKi). His research centres on children’s and youth literature from the 18th to the 21st century, gender studies, narratology and drama theory.