Associate Professor for Theater Studies. From 2005 to 2010 Jan worked as a Lecturer for Theater Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and was a member of the Collaborative Research Center Kulturen des Performativen (2001-2010). He was a Visiting Scholar for Theater History at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Hildesheim. In winter 2010/11 Jan served as a Visiting Professor for Aesthetics and Theater Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster. From spring 2011 to summer 2013 he was a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow in the Department for Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. In spring 2014 Jan was awarded a research fellowship at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna. From 2009-2012 he was a co-convenor for the Historiography Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) (with Yael Zarhy-Levo and David Wiles). Since 2003, Jan is co-editing the book series Theatrum Scientiarum (Walter de Gruyter), a study on the intersection between the history of science and the history of theater in the 17th and early 20th century, alongside Helmar Schramm and Ludger Schwarte. His dissertation was published under the title Theatermaschine und Festungsbau. Paradoxien der Wissensproduktion im 17. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007). Most recently, he co-authered Theaterhistoriografie: Eine Einführung (G. Narr, UTB, 2012) with Matthias Warstat and Viktoria Tkaczyk. Together with Claudia Blümle Jan edited a book on post-war theater architecture in Germany (Ruinierte Öffentlichkeit, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2012). His current research project questions the manifold relationships between theater and the police in nineteenth-century German territories.

Current Research Projects 

Schiller's Police : Censorship and Archive of Nineteenth-Century Theater (book project)

Monograph which questions the manifold relations of theater and police in nineteenth-century German territories. 

Technologies of Spectacle - Knowledge Transfer in Early Modern Theater Cultures (online publication)

Edition (German-English) of a newly identified manuscript on theater machinery by the Swabian architect Joseph Furttenbach (1591-1667). In collaboration with Dr. Hole Rössler (Herzog August- Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel).

Anthology of the theatrical writings of Claude-François Ménestrier (1631-1705) (book project). 

In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Nicola Gess and Dr. Annette Kappeler (eikones, Basel). 

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