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Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander

is the Head of the Chair of Romance Literary Studies II at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since the summer term 2018.
Miriam Lay Brander
Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander
Head of Chair Romance Literary Studies II
Phone +49 8421 93-23132
E-mail miriam.lay-brander@ku.de
Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-244
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
On Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 (prior notice is recommended) or by prior arrangement. On November 2nd, 9th and December 14th the office hours will be suspended, on November 16th the office hour will be held online.
Research
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Publications

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Lectures and Conferences

Academical Career

  • 2017 Venia legendi for General and Comparative Literature and Romance Literatures (University of Konstanz). Habilitation thesis: "Writing in Archipelagos. Aphorism and proverb in (post-)colonial contexts of French, Spanish and Portuguese language".
  • 2010 Doctorate (PhD) in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz; doctoral thesis: "Raum-Zeiten. Narrating and Showing in Seville in the Early Modern Period".
  • 2007 First State examination for the teaching at High schools.
  • 2003-2007 Studies of Romance languages and literature (French and Spanish) in Freiburg, Nice and Konstanz

Research Assignments

  • since 2018 Director of the Central Institute of Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • since 2018 Head of the Chair of Romance Literature II (focus on Spanish Literatures) at the KU
  • 2017 - 2018 Deputy Professor of Romance Literature II, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
  • 2014 - 2017 Post-doctoral researcher in the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz.
  • 2011 - 2017 Research Assistant in the Department of Literary Studies, Romance Literatures (Chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Sprenger), University of Konstanz.
  • 2016 - 2017 Junior-Fellowship at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg of the University of Bern.
  • 2014 - 2017 Director of the externally funded project "Genre and Globalization. Hybridization of Genres in (Post-)Colonial Contexts".
  • 2007 - 2011 Academic assistant in the doctoral program "Time Cultures" of the Exc16 "Cultural Foundations of Integration".

Awards and scholarships

  • 2014 - 2017 Scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation's elite programme for postdoctoral students.
  • 2011 - 2014 scholarship holder in the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Programme of the Ministry of Science and Art Baden-Württemberg
  • 2013 Werner Krauss Prize of the German Hispanic Association to award doctoral theses.
  • 2011 Award of the City of Konstanz for the promotion of young scientists for the doctoral thesis "Raum-Zeiten im Umbruch. Erzählen und Zeigen im Sevilla der Frühen Neuzeit".

Membership in scientific associations

Expert activitiy

  • since 2019 Expert Reviewer for the Humboldt Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) (project and individual sponsorship)
  • since 2018 Expert Reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, project and individual funding)
  • 2012 - 2015 Expert Reviewer for selection procedures and follow-up applications of members of the Research Training Group "Das Reale in der Kultur der Moderne", University of Konstanz.
  • Since 2010 Expert reviewer for the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Maison Heinrich Heine and the Pädagogischen Austauschdienst (expert opinions for scholarships and stays abroad).

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Chiara Savoldelli
Chiara Savoldelli
Secretary
Phone +49 8421 93-21540
E-mail chiara.savoldelli@ku.de
Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-243
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
8.00 - 12.30 and 13.30 - 17.00 occasionally Home-Office
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