Ottmar Ette#
| Membership Number: | 2730 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 - present Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Brandenburg (Germany) (venia legendi: Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature)
- 2014 - present Head of the 3-year Research Project on Humboldt’s American Travel Diaries
- April 2010-Juli 2010 Fellow at FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)
- 2004-2005 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study)
- 1995 Habilitation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Bavaria
- 1990 PhD at the University of Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Connections between literary theory and literary writing in France and in the francophone area in the tense modern and postmodern field
- Literary translation and its theory
- Literary studies as life science
- TransArea studies: Poetics of movement
- 18th century francophone literature
- Inter- and transcultural dialogues between Europe and Latin America
- Relations between regionalisms and the accelerated globalization processes
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Research Award Escuela Nacional de Altos Estudios from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- 2014 Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA), United States of America
- 2014 3-year Grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for a research project on Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries
- 2013 Ordinary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany)
- 2012 Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France)
- 2010 Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe)
- 2001 Research Award for Romance Literature in honor of Hugo Friedrich and Erich Köhler (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br. in cooperation with the universities of Basel (Switzerland), Mulhouse and Strasbourg (France))
- 1991 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Award for Young Academics in Romance Literature
- 1987 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Award (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany)
