Profile
Abstract
Since 2018, Jobst Welge is Professor for Romance Literary and Cultural Studies (with special focus on Hispanic und Lusophone Studies) at Leipzig University. Previously, he taught at UC Santa Barbara, FU Berlin, University of Konstanz, and held professorships at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Stockholm University.
Professional career
- since 04/2018
- 08/2016 - 03/2018
- 10/2015 - 08/2016
- 02/2012 - 09/2015
- 04/2011 - 01/2012
- 10/2010 - 03/2011
- 04/2010 - 09/2010
- 04/2009 - 03/2010
- 10/2004 - 03/2009
- 10/2002 - 09/2004
- 10/2001 - 09/2002
- 10/2000 - 03/2001
My research focuses primarily on the following areas:
- Theory, History, and Geography of the Novel
- World Literature; Cosmopolitanism
- Hispanic/Lusophone Literatures: Representations of the Amazon / of cities
- Poetics of the Baroque; Realism; Modernism
- Historical Imaginations in Contemporary Literature
- Calderón Villarino, Á.; Welge, J. (Eds.)Constelaciones familiares en la narrativa iberoamericana modernaVenedig: Edizioni Ca' Foscari. 2024.
- Welge, J.; Burnautzki, S. (Eds.)Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in den romanischen Literaturen. Historisierungen, Revisionen, Öffnungen.Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. 2024.
- Welge, J.Moderne, Desillusion und Race in einem Roman der brasilianischen Belle Époque: Lima Barretos "Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha"Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. 2024. 261 (1 (2024)). pp. 171–184.
- Welge, J.; Wild, C. (Eds.)Armut und MengePaderborn: Brill/Fink. 2024.ISBN: 978-3-7705-6733-1
- Artwinska, A.; Calderón Villarino, Á.; Welge, J. (Eds.)Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures. Historical Imaginary, Transnationality, Narrative FormBerlin: De Gruyter. 2024.
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Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
Lecture Bachelor Hispanic / Lusitanians Studies, University of Leipzig, winter term 2024/25
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Family fictions in contemporary literature
Seminar Master Hispanic Studies, Leipzig University, winter semester 2024/25 (together with Slavic Studies)
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Authorship and Narrative: New Trends in the Latin American Novel
Seminar Master Hispanic Studies, Leipzig University, winter term 2024/25
(Course with student excursion as part of the Arqus Twinning programme)
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Modernist poetry: landscapes, places, objects
Interdisciplinary Master Seminar Romania, University of Leipzig, winter term 2024/25
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez: History and imagination
Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024
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Machado de Assis: Novel and Society
Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024
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B. P. Galdós: Realism and imagination
Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024
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Plants and plantations in Latin American literature
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Research semester
No courses in winter term 2023-2024
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Overview of Romance cultural studies for Hispanists and Lusitanians
Lecture Bachelor Hispanic / Lusitanians Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023
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Family and fiction in contemporary Ibero-American literature
Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023
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Not just Pessoa: the Portuguese avant-garde
Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023
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Genre and Gender in the Early Modern Period (Iberoromania)
Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023
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Eça de Queiroz: Realism, Satire, Criticism
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A Panorama of the International Avantgarde
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Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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Introduction to Angolan Literature: Classics and Contemporary
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Cuban contexts of the 19th century: Cecilia Valdés
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Cervantes: exemplary novels.
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
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History and Memory in the Mozambican Novel
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City Imaginations in 20th/21st Century Literature
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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The different faces of Miguel de Unamuno
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Amazonian Imaginations: Nature, History, Culture
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Historical Imaginations in the Contemporary Novel
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Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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Falsifications, Conspirations, Simulacra
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Brazilian Modernism: Vernacular and Cosmopolitanism
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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Golden Age Theater. Texts and Contexts
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Phantasms and Prose of the "Fin de Siglo"
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Spanish Naturalism: Emilia Pardo Bazán
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Machado de Assis as / and World Literature
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
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Cervantes and the theory of the novel
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The work of João Guimarães Rosa
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The presence of the past. Specters in Latin American Literature
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Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies
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French Decadent Prose (ca. 1890)
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Family and Patriarchal Society in the Brazilian Novel
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The Latin American "Jungle Novel"
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Literature and the History of Laughter (from Rabelais to Diderot)
Research fields
Cultural studies, Literature, literary studies, Romance studies, Latin American Studies
Specializations
Latin American Literatures; Contemporary Literature; History and Theory of the Novel; Literature and Landscape; World Literature
Contact for media inquiries
Phone: +49 341 97 - 37412
Fax: +49 341 97 - 37498
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