PD Dr. Fernando Nina
Recent Publications and Current Projects
- Senior Fellow of the Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila), Sao Paulo, Brazil, March-November 2024 (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF)
- Conference and Workshop "Decoloniality and Feminism on the Edge" (video
) - Congress "Die Frankfurter Schule und die Romania: 1923-2023"
- Book Presentation "Lateinamerikanische Literaturtheorien: Modellanalysen" (video)
- Nina, Fernando (Hrsg.): Lateinamerikanische Literaturtheorie. Modellanalysen am Beispiel von Pablo Palacio: „La doble y única mujer“ und José María Arguedas: „El sueño del Pongo“. Tranvía Sur, Bd. 30. Berlin: edition tranvía - Verlag Walter Frey 2023.
- in preparation together with Alfonso Gomez Arciniega: Politische Theorie: Lateinamerika, Stuttgart: Alfred Krömer Verlag, forthcoming 2024.
- in preparation: Translation of the work of Bolívar Echeverría. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, forthcoming 2024.
Research Foci
- Colonial Latin American Literature and Culture (15th-18th century)
- Spanish Fiction from Siglo de Oro to 18th century
- Spanish Picaresque Novel and Exemplary Novels (Cervantes, Zayas)
- Latin American Independence Novel (19th century)
- Afro-Asian-Hispanic Literature and South-South correlations
- Decolonization (Aníbal Quijano, Santiago Castro-Gómez)
- Border Thinking (Gloria Anzaldúa)
- Critical Race Theory (Sylvia Wynter)
- Cultural Philosophy of Latin America (Bolívar Echeverría)
- Theory of the Subaltern (Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui)
- Decolonial Feminism (Djamila Ribeiro, Rita Segato)
Vita
2000-2005: Studies of German and Romance Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.
2005: Magister Artium in Modern German Literature with a thesis on Robert Musil (Instante y narración, Loja: Loja University Press, 2010, 2. Auflage Buenos Aires 2012: Editorial Biblos).
2006-2009: PhD in Romance Philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Teuber with a thesis on Ecuadorian Narrativics of the 20th century (La expresión metaperiférica. José de la Cuadra, Jorge Icaza y Pablo Palacio, Frankfurt a.M./Madrid: Vervuert, 2011).
Lectureships as research assistant in Mainz, Munich and Mannheim.
2010-2013: Assistant Professor for Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands).
Guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), the University of Granada (Spain), the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito (Ecuador), and the Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul in Porto Alegre (Brazil).
In SS 2017 and WS 2017/18: Substitute Professor for Ibero-Romance Literary Studies (W2) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2020: Habilitation in Romance Literary and Cultural Studies with the thesis La razón incluyente: emergencia, delimitación y constitución del pensamiento americano en la literatura del siglo XVIII.
Since SS 2021: Substitute Professor at the University of Heidelberg at the Chair of Romance Literatures.
List of Publications
Prüfungsberechtigung
Magister, Staatsexamen;
BA, MA (Spanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)
► Themenblöcke zur mündlichen BA-Prüfung (spanische und lateinamerikanische Literatur)
► Themenblöcke zur mündlichen BA-Prüfung (Kulturwissenschaften)
Begutachtung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten im Lehramt (spanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)
Lehrveranstaltungen
siehe LSF
Functions at the university
- Teaching (Spanish, Hispanoamerican, and Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies)
- Program coordinator and course-specific advisor for the master's program Ibero-American Studies. Contact - Theories and Methods
- Since SS 2021: Substitute professor at the University of Heidelberg (Chair of Romance Literatures)
