Sebastian Thies holds the chair for Ibero-American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. After a PhD at the University of Osnabrück, he was Junior Professor for Hispanic Literary and Media Studies and then Associate Professor for Inter-American Studies at the University of Bielefeld. He was director of the doctoral studies programme ‘Entangled Temporalities in the Global South’, and is currently vice-director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies (ICGSS) and one of the coordinators of the BMBF/DAAD thematic network ‘Futures under construction in the Global South’. His research interests include Global South Studies and Latin American literature, film and media studies. He recently co-published The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities.