About

I am a Full Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and have previously served as Assistant Professor for Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt. Currently, I am the Vice-President of the German Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Association and part of a research network on Brazilian-Italian cultural contact.

I have studied Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Romance Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Free University of Berlin, and Humboldt University of Berlin. I obtained my PhD from Humboldt University for a thesis on Latin American travel writing. The thesis was published under the title: Poetik des Kolibris [Hummingbird’s Poetics]. The study compares different short literary forms of travel writing (for instance crônicas/crónicas), written in Latin America in the 1920s, that can no longer be classified as travelogues.

My research is dedicated to Latin American, Spanish, and French literature, with a special emphasis on 18th and early 20th century literature. My Habilitation, which is from Goethe University and serves as the basis for my second book (with publication upcoming), is on multilingual women writers of the European Enlightenment. As principal investigator for the research area on literary criticism within the interdisciplinary project “Lost in Archives,” which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space, I am currently studying women critics from the the 18th and 19th centuries.