Manja Herrmann is a scholar of German and German-Jewish literature and culture, whose research focuses on the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a theoretical emphasis on aspects of transculturalism, travelling concepts and texts, and gender. She received her PhD in Foreign Literatures and Linguistics from Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva in 2015. Before joining the Department for German Language and Literature as the Walter Benjamin Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Culture, she served as assistant professor and research group leader at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg (2017–2022), the Lilli and Michael Sommerfreund visiting professor for Jewish literature in Heidelberg (2020–2021), as visiting researcher at Universität Freiburg (2021–2022), deputy professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2023–2024), and a senior research fellow at the University of Hamburg (2024). Her first book on concepts of authenticity in German-Jewish literature and culture was published in 2018 with DeGruyter. Her second book manuscript on travelling narratives on Hasidei Umot ha-Olam in post-war Germany is currently under review.