Lena Henningsen

The University of Oxford | 2018-Present

Lena Henningsen is Junior Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Univerity Freiburg. She received her PhD from Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg where she was a member of the excellency cluster „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“. Henningsen’s research interests are Chinese literature from the 20th and 21st century, popular culture as well as imitation and plagiarism in China. She received a Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Grant for excellet female junior researchers with children and won the Young Scholar Award of he European Association of Chinese Studies. She is a member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She participates in Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung. Lena Henningsen is Junior Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Univerity Freiburg. She received her PhD from Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg where she was a member of the excellency cluster „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“. Henningsen’s research interests are Chinese literature from the 20th and 21st century, popular culture as well as imitation and plagiarism in China. She received a Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Grant for excellet female junior researchers with children and won the Young Scholar Award of he European Association of Chinese Studies. She is a member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She participates in Fast Track: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung.