Michael Roessner#
| Membership Number: | 6173 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.romanistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/emeriti/roessner/hp/index.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8929-775X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2021 Director, Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1991 - 2019 Full Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Institute of Romance Philology
- 1991 - 2018 Lecturer (Spanish and Latin American Literature), University of Vienna
- 2000-2004 Visiting Professor (Spanish and Latin American Literature), University of Salzburg
- 2003/04 Visiting Professor (Spanish and Latin American Literature), University of Innsbruck
- 1978 - 1991 Assistant Professor, Vienna University
- 1991 - 2019 Visiting Professor at various universities (Buenos Aires and Tucumán (Argentina), Porto Alegre (Brazil) Querétaro, Guanajuato (Mexico), Concepción (Chile), Paris VII (France)
Fields of Scholarship
- Romance (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latin American) literatures
- Translation studies
- Literature and culture studies: Memory and identity (narrated communities)
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Commander of The Civil order of Alfonso X, the Wise
- 2017 Premio Nazionale per la traduzione letteraria
- 2003 Grand’Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
- 2005 Grand’Ufficiale della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana
- 2009 full member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Grand’Ufficiale della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana
- 2003 Grand’Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
- 2001 Corresponding member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
