Presenter Biography
Dr. Catarina von Wedemeyer is a fellow of the Humboldt foundation at Columbia University, New York, and a faculty member at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena. Her current research is dedicated to the demands for human rights in nineteenth-century Romance literature. From 2018 to 2019 she was visiting professor at Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, and before that she held a position as research associate at Freie Universität Berlin. Recent publications include her monograph, Open Dialectics. Poetic Form and Historical Thought in the Works of Octavio Paz, De Gruyter, 2019; articles on the topic of migration in literature, intellectual resistance in the avantgarde, the Arabic heritage in Hispanophone literature, as well as articles on female Latin American authors of the 19th century. Catarina was awarded several research fellowships in Spain (Madrid, Segorbe), in Ankara, in Jerusalem (HUJI), in Mexico (UNAM, Colmex), at Harvard University (Boston) and at Columbia University (New York).