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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)

Recent Publications

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