Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thies
Curriculum Vitae
Born July 11, 1968, married, 2 daughters.
Research Projects
2017–2020 | Project Leader: Research Training Network (Promotionsverbund) “Entangled Temporalities in the Global South”, University of Tübingen |
2015– | Vice Project Leader of the thematic network „Literary Cultures of the Global South” funded by the DAAD and the BMBF |
2012–2017 | Associated Investigator: BMBF-Area Studies Project „The Americas as a Space of Entanglement”, Center for Inter-American Studies Bielefeld, |
2009–2012 | Associated Investigator: Competence Network Latin-American Studies, Universities of Köln, Bielefeld, Bonn, Hannover und Münster |
2008–2011 | Subproject Leader for the Subproject B 13 „Ethnicization and De-Ethnicization of the Political. Media, Actors and Semantics of Ethnicity in Transnational Communication“; DFG Special Research Area 584 „The Political as Communicational Space in History” |
2007–2011 | DAAD ISAP – Exchange program with the University of Guadalajara |
2007–2010 | Project Leader: Research Group "E Pluribus Unum? Ethnic Identies in Processes of Transnational Integration" at Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Bielefeld |
Professional Experience
since Oct. 2012 | University of Tübingen Chair for Ibero-American Literary and Cultural Studies |
2011–2012 | University of Bielefeld Full Professor for Inter-American Studies / Romance Studies |
2009–2011 | University of Bielefeld Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat) |
2002–2009 | University of Bielefeld Junior Professor for Hispanic Literary and Media Studies |
2001 | University of Bielefeld Academic Assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiter) |
1998–2001 | University of Osnabrück Academic Assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiter) |
1995–1997 | University of Münster Academic Assistent for the review journal NOTAS (wiss. Mitarbeiter & redaktioneller Mitarbeiter) |
Academic career
2000 | University of Osnabrück Promotion (PhD) in Hispanic Studies |
1997–1998 | Colegio de México Visiting researcher |
1989–1991 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Studies abroad: Letras hispánicas |
1988–1995 | University of Osnabrück and University of Münster Magister Artium in Literary Studies, Philosophy and Hispanic Studies |