Dr. Jan Knobloch
Department of Romance Studies, University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne
Tel.: (+)221 470-3005
Email: j.knobloch@uni-koeln.de
Full profile under:
Web.: https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/personen/weitere-mitarbeiterinnen/knobloch
Short Biography
2024
Second place in the selection process for a W1 professorship with tenure track in “Romance Literature and Cultural Studies (French/Spanish)”, University of Osnabrück
2023
Visiting Scholar at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana
2022
Research stay in Buenos Aires
Since 2021
Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Romance Languages, University of Cologne
2020–2021
Post-doctoral Scholar, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Kassel
2020
PhD in literature, Universities of Kassel and Berlin, Alfred Röver Foundation Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in the Humanities and Cultural Studies
2019–2020
Pre-doctoral assistant at the Institute for Romance Studies, University of Kassel
2018–2019
Visiting Scholar at the University of Paris-Diderot (VII), CERILAC
2017–2018
Pre-doctoral assistant at the Institute for Romance Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Since 2017
Freelance Journalist for different German newspapers, among others Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
2016–2019
PhD Scholar, funded by Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes, Humboldt University of Berlin
Research Focus
- Social Alterity in Literature and the Arts
- Literature & Future(s), Speculative Fiction (France, Argentina, Mexico, Francophone Africa)
- Environmental Humanities
- Inter- and Transculturality
- Theories and Practices of Literary Negation, Aesthetic Negativity
- Poetics of the Novel between Realism and (Post)Modernity, 19th–21st century
- Contemporary French Theories of Authorship
- French, Spanish and Argentinian Literatures and Cultures, focus on the 19th to 21st centuries
- Essayism (especially Montaigne)