Stefan Lindinger has studied German philology, history and Latin at the University of Regensburg. After that, he completed the Ph.D. program in the Department of German Philology at the University of Chicago while teaching 'German as a Foreign Language' at the Collge of this university. He then worked as a Lecturer of 'German as a Foreign Language' at the German Department of the Università degli Studi di Pisa, and later as an Exchange Lecturer (supported by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD) at the Department of German Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of Athens. His research focus is upon literature as well as the history of literature from the 18th to the middle of the 20th centuries.