Shinji Miyata is Professor of German Language and Literature at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo. He served as President of the Japan Society of German Language and Literature (Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik) from 2019 to 2020.

His research focuses on eighteenth-century German literature, with particular emphasis on late Enlightenment and early Romanticism, especially the writings of Novalis and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. He has published extensively on these figures and, in 2018, produced a critically edited and annotated abridged translation of Lichtenberg’s Sudelbücher (Notebooks). His broader scholarly interests include the works of Christoph Martin Wieland, Albrecht von Haller, Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim, as well as the philosophy of language in the eighteenth century.

Research Project at EXC Temporal Communities:

Lichtenberg and Wieland: Critical Perspectives on the Veneration and Active Reception of Antiquity