Jochen Mecke

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Jochen Mecke (born December 11, 1956 in Recklinghausen ) is a German Romance studies and literary scholar .

Life

Jochen Mecke has held the chair for Spanish and French literary studies at the University of Regensburg since 1996 . In 1986 he was at the Department of Language and Literature of the University of Mannheim Dr. phil. PhD . In 1994 the habilitation followed in Heidelberg . After substituting professorships in Greifswald and Passau , he was appointed Professor of Romance Literature and Regional Studies (focus: France - Spain) in 1995. He is the head of the Research Center Spain, which opened in Regensburg in 2007.

Mecke is editor of the Mannheimer Papers on Linguistics and Literature Studies and a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Poetics Today .

Jochen Mecke was the spokesman for the graduate program “Cultures of Lies”, which has now ended.

From 2013 to 2015, Mecke was Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies and is now a member of the Senate of the University of Regensburg.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.): Media of literature: From the almanac to hyperfiction. Stations in a media history of literature from the 18th century to the present . Transcript, 2010.
  • Roman Era: Time shaping and deconstruction of the French novel of the present . Narr, Tübingen 1990.
  • (Ed. With Volker Roloff): Kino- (Ro-) Mania. Intermediality between film and literature . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1999.
  • (Ed. With Ulrich Leinsle): Time - changing times - end times: time in the change of times, cultures, techniques and disciplines . Regensburg University Press, Regensburg 2000.
  • (Ed. With Susanne Heiler): Title - Text - Context. The literary text and its outskirts. Festschrift for Arnold Rothe on his 65th birthday . Galda & Wilch, Berlin - Cambridge - Massachusetts 2000.
  • Romance Studies 2006: Revisions, Positions, Visions, Romance Journal for Literary History, Volume 3/4 2005 . Winter Verlag, 2006.
  • (Ed.): Cultures of Lying . Galda, Massachusetts - Berlin 2007.

Awards

  • Prize of the Bavarian State Ministry for the internationalization of the university (2005)
  • Prize of the University of Regensburg for the acquisition of third-party funds (2006)
  • Holder of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French State (2006)

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personal data
SURNAME Mecke, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen