VITA
Academic career
- 1996 Doctorate in Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
- 1985 Master's (Magister) in the subjects: Latin American Studies, Modern German Literature and Linguistics at Freie Universität Berlin
- 1977 - 1985 Studies in Latin American Studies, Sociology and German Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
- 1976 - 1977 Studies in History and Journalism at the University of Göttingen
Stays abroad
- 2016 DAAD Short-term lectureship at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UFRJ), post-grad programme, Departamento de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 2010 DAAD Short-term lectureship at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UFRJ), post-grad programme, Departamento de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 2007-08 Research Fellow at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, USA
- 2007 Visiting professorship for Literary and Cultural Studies at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UFRJ), post-grad programme, Departamento de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 2006 DAAD Short-term lectureship at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), post-grad programme, Institute for Languages, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
- 2006 Research Fellow at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, USA
- 2004 Lecture tour to Colombian universities (funded by DFG)
- 2002 Visiting professorship at the Departamento de Lenguajes y Estudios Socioculturales, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- 2001 DAAD Short-term lectureship at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), post-grad programme, Departamento de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 2000 Visiting professorship at the University of São
Paulo (USP), post-grad programme, Department of Philosophy, Languages and Humanities, Brasil
- 1999 DAAD Short-term lectureship at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), post-grad programme, Departamento de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 1994 DAAD Short-term lectureship at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), post-grad programme, Departamento de Letras, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Work experience
- Since 10/2019 Affiliate Researcher at Hannah Arendt Institute, TU Dresden
- Since 1990 Freelance work as an author, journalist and translator
- 2015 - 2016 Lecturer for Ibero-American Philology and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen, Romanisches Seminar
- 2011 - 2012 Substitute of the W3 professorship for Ibero-American Philology and Cultural Studies at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen
- 2004 - 2005 Lecturer for Literary and Cultural Studies of the Iberoromania at the Institute for Romance Studies, Universität Leipzig
- 2003 - 2004 Subsitute of the C3 professorship for Literary and Cultural Studies of the Iberoromania at the Institute for Romance Studies, Universität Leipzig
- 1990 - 1995 Researcher at the Institute for Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin
- 1987 - 1989 Lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin
Linguistic proficiency
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Research and teaching focus
- Latin American cultures
- Processes of cultural appropriation
- Institutional and science history
- Cultural transformation processes
- as affiliated researcher at HAIT: research into the reception of Hannah Arendt's work in Latin America, as well as publication of its results in cooperation with HAIT
Organizational activity
- 2009 Coordination of the symposium „Reformas universitarias y destinos de los lideres estudiantiles en América Latina “ at the 53rd International Congress of Americanists (ICA) „Los pueblos americanos: cambio y continuidades. La construcción de lo propio en un mundo globalizado” in Mexico City
- 2006 Coordination of the symposium „ Teorías y formas de análisis de las relaciones entre globalidad y localidad en América Latina (1982-2005) “ at the 52nd International Congress of Americanists (ICA) in Sevilla, Spain
- 2000 Coordination of the symposium „Los debates posmoderno y poscolonial en las Américas“ at the 50th International Congress of Americanists (ICA) in Warsaw, together with Mabel Moraña (University of Pittsburgh)
- 1998 Coordination of the symposium „Modelle kultureller
Aneignung: Recycling, Hybridität, Kannibalismus, Translatio“, Freie
Universität Berlin, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
- 1996 - 1997 Coordination of the „Programa Internacional Interdisciplinario de Estudios Culturales sobre América Latina“ of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin, in Bogotá