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Barbara Ventarola

Barbara Ventarola | Freie Universitaet Berlin

Barbara Ventarola | Freie Universitaet Berlin

Global Humanities Senior Research and Teaching Stay at The Johns Hopkins University

September - October 2014

Barbara Ventarola received her PhD from the University of Cologne in 2007 and her venia legendi (habilitation) in Romance Philology and Comparative Literature from the University of Würzburg in 2013. Currently she is a visiting professor for Romance Philology and Comparative Literature at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Her fields of expertise include: literary theory; the interrelations between literature, sciences and philosophy from antiquity to the present; postcolonialism; concepts of world literature; history of utopia; concepts of time. Selected relevant publications: (Ed.) Literarische Stadtutopien zwischen totalitärer Gewalt und Ästhetisierung (2011); „Zwischen situationaler Repräsentation und Multiadressierung – Marcel Proust und Jorge Luis Borges als Paradigmen der Weltliterarizität“. In: Moser, Christian/Simonis, Linda (eds.). Figuren des Globalen. Weltbezug und Welterzeugung in Literatur, Kunst und Medien (2014); „Weltliteratur(en) im Dialog – Zu einer möglichen Osmose zwischen Systemtheorie und postkolonialer Theorie“. In: Grizelj, Mario/Kirschstein, Daniela (eds.). Riskante Kontakte. Postkoloniale Theorien und Systemtheorie? (2014).

Barbara Ventarola will give a Lecture cum Seminar within the Global Humanities Campus entitled Variations on Nietzsche’s Theory of Eternal Recurrence.