Professor Dr. Regina Grundmann

Current affiliations

  • Professorship for Jewish Studies (Prof. Grundmann)
  • Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • History of Jewish Religion and Culture
  • Jewish Literature
  • Rabbinic Literature
  • Contemporary Halakhic Literature

Academic Education

2007PhD, Ruhr-University Bochum
1998 - 2003MA in Jewish Studies, Modern German Literature, and Romance Studies

Work Experience

since 2022Member of the Board of Directors of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation“
since 2019Principal research applicant (Hauptantragstellerin) for the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation“
since 2019Head of project, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) „Law and Literature“
since 2015Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Münster
since 2009Member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Religious Studies (CRS), University of Münster
2016 - 2020Member of the Executive Board at the Centre for Religion and Modernity, University of Münster
2015 - 2019Head of project, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) „Cultures of Decision-making“
2012 - 2017Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity’, University of Münster
2009 - 2015Junior Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Münster
2008 - 2009Research Assistant, DFG Project ‘Der Renaissance-Prediger Judah Moscato: Kulturtransfer im neuen Stil’, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Functions and Memberships

since 2022Member, Advisory Board, Jewish Museum of Westphalia
since 2022Member of the Board of Directors, Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation“
since 2021Member, Strategical Planning Commission , Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
since 2019Member, Jury, Johannes Zilkens Award for Doctoral Research
since 2019Member, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) „Law and Literature“
since 2019Academic Commissioner for Equal Opportunities , Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) „Law and Literature“
since 2016Member, Advisory Board of the Series „Jüdische Bibelauslegung im Mittelalter“ (de Gruyter Publishers)
since 2012Mentor, Germany National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
since 2009Member, Executive Board, Centre for Religious Studies, University of Münster
since 2009Member, Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity’, University of Münster
2016 - 2020Member, Board of Directors, Centre for Religion and Modernity, University of Münster
2015 - 2019Member, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) ‘Cultures of Deciding’, University of Münster
2016 - 2018Member, Senate, University of Münster
2011 - 2014Member, Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
2011 - 2013Director, Centrum für religionsbezogene Studien, Universität Münster

Publications

Grundmann, Regina (2024)
In: Kirstein, Robert; Schmidt-Hofner, Sebastian (eds.), Recht als Erzählung: Narratologie und Recht von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Basel : Schwabe.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Grundmann, Regina (2023)
In: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina; Arnold, Stefan; Schnetter, Marcus; Heger, Gesine (eds.), Rhetoriken zwischen Recht und Literatur, Interdisziplinäre und interkulturelle Zugänge. Berlin : J.B. Metzler Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Grundmann, Regina (2023)
Type of Publication: Entry in encyclopedia in digital collection
Grundmann, Regina (2022)
In: Lars Maskow; Jonathan Robker (eds.), Kritische Schriftgelehrsamkeit in priesterlichen und prophetischen Diskursen. Festschrift für Reinhard Achenbach zum 65. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Grundmann Regina (2021)
In: Hoffmann-Rehnitz Philipp, Rojek, Tim, Sprekelmeier, Susanne (eds.), Semantiken und Narrative des Entscheidens. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/07/2015 - 30/06/2019 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/04/2013 - 29/02/2016
Funded by: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
Type of project: Individual project
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Prizes

Election as Member of the Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
Awarded by: Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
Award given to: Grundmann, Regina
Date of awarding: 01/01/2011
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Preisträgerin des 8. Forums Junge Heine-Forschung
Awarded by: Heinrich-Heine-Institut Düsseldorf
Award given to: Grundmann, Regina
Date of awarding: 01/01/2006
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Awarded by: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Award given to: Grundmann, Regina
Announced at: 01/01/2004
Type of distinction: Scholarship
Feodor Lynen-Stipendium
Awarded by: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Award given to: Grundmann, Regina
Announced at: 01/01/2008
Type of distinction: Scholarship
PostDoc-Stipendium
Awarded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Award given to: Grundmann, Regina
Announced at: 01/01/2008
Type of distinction: Scholarship

Doctorates

Ein Vergleich der Regulierungsstrategien religiöser Pluralität von Reform Judaism und Conservative Judaism in den USA und ihr Einfluss auf interreligiöse…
Candidate: Herholz, Martin | Supervisors: Grundmann, Regina; Reuter, Astrid
Period of time: 30/06/2024 - 01/11/2029
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Samson Raphael Hirschs Tora-Hermeneutik
Candidate: Schiffer, Walter | Supervisors: Grundmann, Regina
Period of time: 01/04/2021 - 31/12/2024
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Humor als Coping-Mechanismus im Kontext von Einzelschicksalen und zentralen Ereignissen der jüdischen Traditionsgeschichte (bes. am Beispiel des Babylonischen…
Candidate: Heiss, Esther | Supervisors: Grundmann, Regina; Langer, Gerhard
Period of time: 01/07/2019 - 10/12/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at another university (NOT University of Münster)
"We are Talmud". US-amerikanische Talmudparodien des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
Candidate: Hartmann, Maria | Supervisors: Grundmann, Regina
Period of time: 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2022
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Neo-orthodoxes Selbstverständnis in der deutsch-jüdischen Presse am Beispiel der Zeitung „Der Israelit – Ein Centralorgan für das orthodoxe Judentum“
Candidate: Bachmann, Lisa | Supervisors: Grundmann, Regina; Wilke, Annette
Period of time: until 01/07/2018
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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