My research combines the philologically and historically grounded analysis of the aesthetic forms of language with approaches informed by cultural studies and discourse analysis. Further emphasis is placed on sociological dimensions and relations between literature and the history of ideas.

Research Areas

General

Modern and contemporary Hispanic, Francophone, and Lusophone literatures and cultures

Regional and historical focus

• Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literature and film, particularly from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature
• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature

Thematic focus

• Literature and economics
• Literature and the study of emotions
• Literature as sociology/literature and sociology; societal fictions
• Intertextuality
• Aesthetic temporalities
• Conservatism and reaction in the literature and intellectual history of the Romance-speaking world
• Aesthetics of memory and of dictatorship and post-dictatorship in Latin America; representations of the Shoah in France
• Literary translation in theory and practice
• World literature and the global book market