Jan Söffner

Jan Söffner (born on May 20, 1971 in Bonn ) is a German Romance scholar and cultural theorist . He is Vice President “Teaching and Didactics” at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance .

After graduation in 1990 at the High School Bonn-Röttgen and the following civil service in January Soeffner completed a preparatory course in Slavic Studies at the University of Cologne . In 1992 he studied Italian , German and pedagogy at the University of Bonn and in the same year began a teaching degree for German and Italian at the University of Cologne, which he completed in 1999 . Funded by the Erasmus program , he studied at the University of Florence in the academic year 1993/94 , followed by a study visit to the Perugia University for Foreigners in September 1997.

From 1999 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Romance Department at the University of Cologne. In 2003 there was a doctorate there with a thesis on the frame structure of the Decamerone . From 2004 to 2007 Jan Söffner was a research assistant in Cologne, then until 2010 at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin . Initially a fellow , he was employed as a research assistant at the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata from October 2011 to 2014 .

In 2013 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne and in the winter semester 2014/15 he took over a professorship for Romance Philology and Comparative Literature at the University of Tübingen . After a time as a lecturer and as head of editing at Wilhelm Fink Verlag in Paderborn, he was appointed to the chair for cultural theory and cultural analysis at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, of which he is vice-president (as of July 1, 2020).

His research interests include literary theory, metaphors and mimesis , mythology and enactivism . He regularly writes articles for the features section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Publications (selection)

• The decameron and its frames of the illegible. Winter, Heidelberg 2005.
• Participation. Metaphors, mimesis, music and the art of making texts inhabitable: Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2014.
• Metaphors and Morphomata (= Morphomata Lectures Cologne. Volume 7). Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2015 ( online ).
• Thinking about Game of Thrones. George RR Martins A Song of Ice and Fire. Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2017.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the Zeppelin University website (PDF, accessed July 1, 2020)