Michael Roessner - Biography#

Michael Rössner, since 1991 Professor for Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese Literatures with a special focus on Latin American cultures at the LMU University of Munich. Teaching and lecturing since 1979 at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck and the Vienna University of Economics (Austria); the Universities of Querétaro (Mexico), Concepción (Chile), Buenos Aires (UBA) and Tucumán (Argentina), and the UFRGS in Porto Alegre (Brazil).

Joint editor of the journal IBEROROMANIA, as well of the book series TCCL (THEORY AND CRITICISM OF CULTURE AND LITERATURE) (Publisher: Olms) and JWR (Publisher: Böhlau).

Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Accademia degli Incamminati (Italian Art Academy), Member of the Austrian PEN Centre, Chair of the European Pirandello-Centre (1988 - 2019), Director of the Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2009 - 2021).

Editor and translator of the edition of Luigi Pirandello’s work in German, of a History of the Latin American Literatures in German (Metzler, 1995, ²2002 and ³2007); several publications on literary and cultural theory and related subjects as Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Paradies (1988); Literarische Kaffeehäuser. Kaffeehausliteraten (1999); "¡Bailá! ¡Vení! ¡Volá!": El fenómeno tanguero y la literatura, Frankfurt (2000), (con A. Sorrentino:) Pirandello e la traduzione culturale, 2012; (con Alessandra Sorrentino, Fausto De Michele e Gabriella Caponi:) Pirandello e un mondo da ri-disegnare, Bern-New York: P. Lang, 2017; (con Alessandra Sorrentino:) Pirandello. Narrazione – memoria – identità, Bern: Peter Lang, 2019; (con Daniel Graziadei:) La narración entre lo fantástico y la posmodernidad: Adolfo Bioy Casares y Julio Cortázar, Hildesheim: Olms, 2020

In the last decade he focussed more on culture theory with publications like: Renaissance der Authentizität? Über die neue Sehnsucht nach dem Ursprünglichen, (together with Heidemarie Uhl, 2012); Translatio/n. Narration, Media and the Staging of Differences (together with Federico Italiano, 2012), Inszenierung und Gedächtnis. Soziokulturelle und ästhetische Praxis, (with Hermann Blume, Elisabeth Grossegger und Andrea Sommer-Mathis, 2014), Narrated Communities - Narrated Realities.- Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice (with Hermann Blume and Christoph Leitgeb, 2015