Professor Cornelia Ruhe

Professor Cornelia Ruhe studied Romance, Slavic, and English and American Studies in Regensburg and Konstanz. In 2022, she obtained her doctoral degree and in 2009, she earned her habilitation at the University of Konstanz. Since 2010, she has been professor of Romance Literary and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on literature in French and Spanish, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as on postcolonial literature and film. Intertextuality, cultural semiotics, and cultural memory studies are at the center of her research interests. Since 2016, Cornelia Ruhe has been the publisher of Romanische Forschungen in the field of Literary Studies. In summer 2018, she was accepted into the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Senate of the University of Mannheim and since 2022 dean of the School of Humanities.