Steffen Schneider is Professor of Romance Literature and Cultural Studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz. In his research, he emphasises the independence and alterity of the Renaissance and focuses on the specific performativity of texts from this period as well as the cosmologies and anthropologies that form an important point of reference for Renaissance aesthetics and poetics.
Currently he is particularly interested in the theoretical and methodological reflection of the concept of ‘Mediterranean literature’. While in Berlin, he will pursue a project on the maritime imagination in Rabelais.