Luísa Afonso Soares (PhD in German Literature, University of Lisbon, 1998) is Full Professor of the Department of German Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She has been visiting professor at the Universities of Cologne and Erlangen (Germany) and at the University of São Paulo (Brasil). She is Director of the German Studies Department and vice-director of the Centre of Comparative Studies, where she works on the subgroup “Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions" (MORPHE).
Areas of Research
Memory Studies
Gender Studies
Film Studies
Selected Publications
2023. “At the Crossroads of Memories- Anna Seghers Transit revisited by Christian Petzold” In Transcultural Mobilities and Memories ed.Mário Matos /Joanne Paisana, V.N.Famalicão: Húmus 2023.
2021. ”Imagining Transcultural Identities in Turkish-German Literature and Cinema” in Discourses on Nation and Identities. The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, Vol.3, ed. Daniel Syrovy, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter.
2021. ”Anatomy of a Passion in Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou” in Pasiones Ocultas, Amores Fatales. Imágenes del Deseo en la Cultura Contemporânea, ed. Esperanza Guillén, Granada: Editorial Universidade de Granada.
2017. „Transitdasein oder irgendwo Zuhause? Emotionen und Affekte in Texten von Yadé Kara“ in C.Bescansa, G.Iztueta u. M. Saalbach (Hgg.) Raum-Gefühl-Heimat: Literarische Repräsentationen nach 1945, Marburg : LiteraturWissenschaft.
2016. O Dever da Memória. Estudos de Literatura e Cultura. V.N. Famalicão: Húmus.
2010. “Die unerträgliche Last der Erinnerungen: über Ruth Klüger und Imre Kertész“. In Rahmenwechsel Kulturwissenschaft, herausgegeben von. P. Hanenberg/I.C.Gil/ F.V.Guarda/F.Clara, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2010, 287- 296.
2006. “Vicky Baum and Gina Kaus: Female Creativity on the Margins” in Practicing Modernity. Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic, ed. Christiane Schönfeld, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 324- 342.
