Stephan Jolie will succeed Mechthild Dreyer on January 16, 2018
15 January 2018
Professor Stephan Jolie will become the new Vice President for Learning and Teaching at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) on January 16, 2018. The previous Dean of Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology was elected in July 2017 to succeed Professor Mechthild Dreyer ending her second term in office. Professor Jolie had been proposed for the post by the President of JGU. "The value and importance of good quality university teaching cannot be overestimated because our students are the future of our society and our academic culture," emphasized Jolie. "Universities have to provide their students with the best possible education and training as well as give them opportunities to develop. I will pay special attention to driving this process forward."
The new Vice President for Learning and Teaching benefits from his comprehensive and wide-spread experience gained through his work on various JGU committees. From 2011 to 2017 Jolie was Dean of Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology. He has been particularly active in the field of the internationalization of learning and teaching. Since 2007 he has been the Dijon representative of the university's German Department. He was principal applicant and coordinator of the TALC-me: Textual and Literary Cultures in Medieval Europe Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership program, which was funded by the EU from 2014 to 2017 and focused on the opportunities for as well as prospects and challenges of international courses of studies in the humanities and cultural sciences. Jolie has also concentrated on the strategic further development of innovative teaching at JGU. Thus, for example, he initiated innovative teaching projects, such as theatrical performances realized in cooperation with the Mainz State Theater.
Stephan Jolie, born in 1965, studied German Studies, Philosophy, and Musicology at the universities of Frankfurt/Main and Munich. After acquiring his doctorate in 1995, he was a research assistant for Old German Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt to 2002. In 2004 he received his post-doctoral lecturing qualification in German Studies with specialization in Old German Literature from the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at Frankfurt University. After deputy professorships at the universities of Frankfurt, Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Freie Universität Berlin, he was appointed Professor of Old German Literature at the JGU German Department in 2007.