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Prof. Dr. Jobst Welge

Prof. Dr. Jobst Welge

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Romanische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien mit den Schwerpunkten Hispanistik und Lusitanistik
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 2307
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37412
Fax: +49 341 97-37498

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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
    W3-Professur für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien mit den Schwerpunkten Hispanistik und Lusitanistik an der Universität Leipzig
  • 08/2016 - 03/2018
    Professur für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Stockholm
  • 10/2015 - 08/2016
    W2-Professur für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft II an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • 02/2012 - 09/2015
    Vertretungsprofessur Kulturwissenschaft und kulturwissenschaftliche Methoden, Universität Konstanz (Lehrstuhl Prof. Kirsten Mahlke)
  • 04/2011 - 01/2012
    Gastprofessor am Institut für Romanische Philologie, FU Berlin
  • 10/2010 - 03/2011
    Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Romanische Philologie, FU Berlin
  • 04/2010 - 09/2010
    Gastprofessor am Peter Szondi-Institut, FU Berlin
  • 04/2009 - 03/2010
    Gastprofessor, Romanisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen
  • 10/2004 - 03/2009
    Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lehrstuhl Prof. Joachim Küpper), Peter Szondi-Institut, FU Berlin
  • 10/2002 - 09/2004
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. French/Italian, Santa Barbara, University of California
  • 10/2001 - 09/2002
    Lecturer in the Humanities , Stanford University
  • 10/2000 - 03/2001
    Lectureship, Dept. of Italian Studies, Berkeley, University of California

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


  • Welge, J.; Tauchnitz, J. (Eds.)
    Literary Landscapes of Time: Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures.
    Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783110762266
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  • Welge, J.
    Post-Natural Histories. Mimicry and Deep Time in Pola Oloixarac’s "Las Constelaciones Oscuras" and Carlos Fonseca’s "Museo Animal".
    In: Müller, G.; Loy, B. (Eds.)
    Post-Global Aesthetics. 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures.. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2022. pp. 95–114.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110762143-007
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  • Welge, J.
    Discontinuidad y Temporalidad Fantasmática en Zama de Antonio di Benedetto.
    In: Burnautzki, S.; Kuschel, D.; Ruhe, C. (Eds.)
    Au-delà de la littérature fantastique et du réalisme magique / Más allá de la literatura fantástica y del realismo mágico.. Berlin: Peter Lang. 2022. pp. 93–106.
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  • Welge, J.
    Poetic Circulation and Valuation in Iberia and the New World. The Case of Góngora.
    In: Gamper, M.; Müller-Tamm, J.; Wachter, D.; Wrobel, J. (Eds.)
    Der Wert der literarischen Zirkulation / The Value of Literary Circulation. Berlin: Metzler. 2023. pp. 541–555.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65544-3_31
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  • Welge, J.
    Post-Romantische Ehe und die »Erziehung« der Frau. Gender und Gesellschaft bei Eça de Queirós und Emilia Pardo Bazán
    In: Hiergeist, T.; Wieder, C. (Eds.)
    Brüchige Ehen. Alternative Konzeptualisierungen partnerschaftlicher Sozialität in der Romania um 1900. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2023. pp. 255–271.
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more publications

  • Juan Gabriel Vásquez: History and imagination

    Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

  • Machado de Assis: Novel and Society

    Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

  • B. P. Galdós: Realism and imagination

    Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

  • Plants and plantations in Latin American literature

    Seminar Master / LA Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2024

  • Research semester

    No courses in winter term 2023-2024

  • Overview of Romance cultural studies for Hispanists and Lusitanians

    Lecture Bachelor Hispanic / Lusitanians Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

  • Family and fiction in contemporary Ibero-American literature

    Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

  • Not just Pessoa: the Portuguese avant-garde

    Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

  • Genre and Gender in the Early Modern Period (Iberoromania)

    Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

  • Eça de Queiroz: Realism, Satire, Criticism

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022/23

  • A Panorama of the International Avantgarde

    Vergleichendes Masterseminar Romania, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022/23

  • Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

    Vorlesung, 3. FS, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022/23

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2022/23

  • Introduction to Angolan Literature: Classics and Contemporary

    Bachelorseminar 6. Semester + Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2022

  • Cuban contexts of the 19th century: Cecilia Valdés

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2022

  • Cervantes: exemplary novels.

    Bachelorseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2022

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2022

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021/22

  • Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

    Vorlesung, 3. FS, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021/22

  • History and Memory in the Mozambican Novel

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021/22

  • City Imaginations in 20th/21st Century Literature

    Vergleichendes Masterseminar Romania, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2021/22

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021

  • The different faces of Miguel de Unamuno

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021

  • Amazonian Imaginations: Nature, History, Culture

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2021

  • Historical Imaginations in the Contemporary Novel

    Vergleichendes Masterseminar Romania, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21

  • Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

    Vorlesung, 3. FS, Univrsität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21

  • Falsifications, Conspirations, Simulacra

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2020/21

  • Brazilian Modernism: Vernacular and Cosmopolitanism

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020

  • Golden Age Theater. Texts and Contexts

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020

  • Phantasms and Prose of the "Fin de Siglo"

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2020

  • Spanish Naturalism: Emilia Pardo Bazán

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20

  • Machado de Assis as / and World Literature

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20

  • Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

    Vorlesung, 3. FS, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2019/20

  • Cervantes and the theory of the novel

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19

  • The work of João Guimarães Rosa

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19

  • The presence of the past. Specters in Latin American Literature

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19

  • Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

    Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, Wintersemester 2018/19

  • French Decadent Prose (ca. 1890)

    Masterseminar Französistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018

  • Family and Patriarchal Society in the Brazilian Novel

    Masterseminar Lusitanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018

  • The Latin American "Jungle Novel"

    Masterseminar Hispanistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018

  • Literature and the History of Laughter (from Rabelais to Diderot)

    Masterseminar Französistik, Universität Leipzig, Sommersemester 2018

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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