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