Sergej Gordon

is Research Associate at the Chair of Romance Literary Studies II at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Dr. Sergej Gordon
Research Associate
Building Universitätsallee/Zentralbibliothek | Room: UA-239
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
Tuesday, 15:00-16:00. Please contact Mr Gordon by e-mail: sergej.gordon@ku.de
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Academic Career

  • 2005-2011 Study of Romance Philology, Economics and Intercultural Communication at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  • 2008-2009 Study at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima) within the framework of a contact scholarship made possible by Prof. Dr. Wulf Oesterreicher
  •  Since 09/2011 Research Assistant at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Chair of Romance Literature II (Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Christian Wehr/Prof. Dr. Barbara Kuhn/PD Dr. Kurt Hahn/PD Dr. Victor Ferretti/Prof. Dr. Miriam Lay Brander)
  • 2013-2016 Scholarship holder of the Graduate College Philosophy of Place, PhD project: "Mnemotopia in Mexican Film", Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • Since 07/2014 Member of the Central Institute for Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  • 06/2018 Submission of the doctoral thesis manuscript on the topic: Mnemotopia in Mexican Film - on the reliving of experience thresholds in the national film culture of the Época de Oro (defended in Feb. 2019), KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt 
  • Since 09/2018 habilitation project: "Reading the primeval forest - on the literary representation of Amazonia in the early modern period".

Research Interests

  • Literary depictions of Paris
  • Memoria and historical folklore in literature and film
  • Fantastic Literature
  • Latin American film history(s)
  • Rain Forest novels and chronicles