CV Benjamin Loy

Since 2024, I have been Professor of Romance Philology at the Institute of Romance Philology at LMU Munich.

My team comprises Dr David Klein, Suse Wagner, Laura Stadler (student assistant), and Anamaría Muhl (team assistant).

Current Positions and Engagements:

Managing Director of the Institute of Romance Philology at LMU Munich
Vice President of the German Association of Romance Studies (DRV)
Chair of the Advisory Board of the Library Information Service for Romance Studies (FID)
Deputy Spokesperson of the Munich Center for Contemporary Literature
Member of the Executive Board of the Latin America Network at LMU Munich
Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at LMU Munich
Member of the Literature Class at the Graduate School of Language and Literature, LMU Munich
Tutor for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at LMU Munich

Memberships in Research Groups:

Since 2026: Key Researcher in the Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology: Moving beyond the Eurocentric Perspective in Philology, LMU Munich
Since 2026: Appointed Member of the Young Center at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich
Since 2024: Member of the Scales research group at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich (directed by Carlos Spoerhase)
2020–2025: Member of the Histories of Vision research group, Young Academy Mainz
2020–2025: Member and Spokesperson of the University Teaching in the Digital Age research group, Young Academy Mainz
2018–2021: Member of the DFG Research Network Paragesellschaften: Parallel and Alternative Social Formations in Contemporary Cultures and Literatures
2015–2020: Academic Coordinator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project Reading Global: Constructions of World Literature and Latin America, University of Cologne (Principal Investigator: Gesine Müller)

Academic Career:

2020–2024: Lecturer (Post-Doc) at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna
2013–2020: Research Associate at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Cologne
PhD in Romance Studies from the University of Potsdam (2018, summa cum laude)
Visiting scholar at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (2015), Harvard University (2019), and the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires (2025)
2008–2014: Studies in Romance and German Philology in Saarbrücken, Berlin, Potsdam, and Santiago de Chile (B.A./M.A., both with honors)

Awards and Scholarships:

2026: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2020–2025: Member of the Young Academy | Mainz at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
2020: Kurt Ringger Prize of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
2008–2013: Scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Review and Advisory Activities:

Expert reviewer for organizations including the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust (UK), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Member of the Advisory Board of the Kurt Ringger Foundation, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
Member of the Editorial Board of the De Gruyter series Latin American Literatures in the World (edited by Gesine Müller)
Peer reviewer for international journals including the Journal of World Literature, Iberoamericana, Revista Letral, and the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Member of the selection jury for the Premio Iberoamericano José Donoso (Chile, 2023) and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2022)

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