Since March 2006, Georg Mein is Professor for Modern German Literature Studies at the Université du Luxembourg. 1999 – Promotion at the University of Bonn: Die Konzeption des Schönen. Der ästhetische Diskurs zwischen Aufklärung und Romantik. From 1999 until 2001, Georg Mein was employed at the Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as a visiting lecturer. Between 2002 and 2006, he was a Research Assistant at the University of Bielefeld, where he settled in 2006 with his work Und wozu Leser in dürftiger Zeit. Literarische Bildung und soziokulturelle Milieus. In 2005, he received the »Karl Peter Grotemeyer Prize – for an excellent contribution and personal commitment in science.« Georg Mein is the Co-Editor of the journal Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik.