Paul Hamann-Rose is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture. Before joining the English Department at the University of Passau, he has held positions at the Goethe University Frankfurt, the University of Siegen and the University of Hamburg. He studied at the University of London Institute in Paris and at the University of Hamburg, where he received his PhD. His principal areas of research are the interrelations between literature and science, with a special focus on genetics and ecocriticism, and the cultural, legal and poetic manifestations of authorship in the emerging media landscapes of British Romanticism. He has recently spent two extended research stays as visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University, USA, working on the NIH-funded transdisciplinary GetPreCiSe project on genetic privacy. His monograph Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction has been published as part of the “Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine” book series (Palgrave Macmillan: 2024).

Paul Hamann-Rose is a member of the DFG-funded research network on current perspectives in Romantic studies “Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung” at Goethe University Frankfurt.