Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2018
  
• 08/2016 - 03/2018
  
• 10/2015 - 08/2016
  
• 02/2012 - 09/2015
  
• 04/2011 - 01/2012
  
• 10/2010 - 03/2011
  
• 04/2010 - 09/2010
  
• 04/2009 - 03/2010
  
• 10/2004 - 03/2009
  
• 10/2002 - 09/2004
  
• 10/2001 - 09/2002
  
• 10/2000 - 03/2001
  

Panel Memberships

• since 04/2025
  Member of the Library Commission of Leipzig University
• since 01/2022
  Supervisor in the graduate group “Leipzig Transcultural Literary Studies”
• since 04/2020
  Member of the Structural Commission of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Leipzig
• since 10/2018
  Chair of the Doctoral Committee for Literary Studies, Faculty of Philology
• 10/2018 - 12/2024
  Appointments Officer, University of Leipzig

My research focuses primarily on the following areas:

• Theory, History, and Geography of the Novel
• World Literature; Cosmopolitanism
• Hispanic/Lusophone Literatures: Representations of the Amazon / of cities
• Poetics of the Baroque; Realism; Modernism
• Historical Imaginations in Contemporary Literature

• Welge, J.

  Interioridade, animalidade e paisagens do interior: uma reconsideração de "Vidas secas"

  In: Torralbo Gimenez, E.; Alves, F. C.; Rossinetti Rufinoni, S. (Eds.)

  Graciliano Ramos, a paixão medida: ensaios de interpretação da obra.. São Paulo: Hucitec Editora. 2025. pp. 105–121.
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• Welge, J.

  Water and Rivers in the Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Reading Modernist Poetry in the Age of the Anthropocene

  In: Willem, B.; Seewald, R. (Eds.)

  Aquatic Environments. Literary Hydropolitics in Latin America. Bielefeld: transcript. 2025. pp. 67–88.

  ISBN: 978-3-8376-7507-8
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• Welge, J.

  Against Anthropocentrism. Human-Animal Configurations in the Work of Tommaso Landolfi.

  In: Savettieri, C.; Schaefer, C. (Eds.)

  Shaping the Future. Literary Imagination in the Anthropocene. German-Italian Perspectives. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 2025. pp. 159–174.
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• Welge, J.

  Urban Undergrounds and “Deep” Psychology in the Maximalist Novels of Ernesto Sabato and Mircea Cărtărescu

  In: García, P.; Pike, D. (Eds.)

  Urban Undergrounds. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives. Berlin, New York: Routledge. 2025. pp. 104–116.

  ISBN: 9781032914633
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• Welge, J.

  Extracción natural, temporalidad y disolución de fronteras en dos novelas de Juan Cárdenas.

  In: Müller, G.; Sánchez Prado, I. M. (Eds.)

  World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures / El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina . Berlin: De Gruyter. 2025. pp. 209–224.

  DOI: 10.1515/9783111354255-014
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more publications

• Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

  Lecture Bachelor Hispanic / Lusitanians Studies, University of Leipzig, winter term 2025/26

• The Myth of Don Juan

  Interdisciplinary Master Seminar Romania, University of Leipzig, winter term 2025/26

• Mexican narratives: Transnational trends in contemporary literature

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies, Leipzig University, winter semester 2025/26

• A stone in the middle of the path: Introduction to modern Brazilian poetry

  Seminar Master Lusitanian Studies, Leipzig University, winter semester 2025/26

• Argentine literature in the world (-literature)

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2025

• The culture of the Spanish Enlightenment

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2025

• Literatura e ditadura

  Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2025

• Nation, Nature, Love: The Latin American Novel of the 19th Century

  Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2025

• Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

  Lecture Bachelor Hispanic / Lusitanians Studies, University of Leipzig, winter term 2024/25

• Family fictions in contemporary literature

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies, Leipzig University, winter semester 2024/25 (together with Slavic Studies)

• Authorship and Narrative: New Trends in the Latin American Novel

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies, Leipzig University, winter term 2024/25

  (Course with student excursion as part of the Arqus Twinning programme)

• Modernist poetry: landscapes, places, objects

  Interdisciplinary Master Seminar Romania, University of Leipzig, winter term 2024/25

• Juan Gabriel Vásquez: History and imagination

  Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

• Machado de Assis: Novel and Society

  Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

• B. P. Galdós: Realism and imagination

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2024

• Plants and plantations in Latin American literature

• Research semester

  No courses in winter term 2023-2024

• Overview of Romance cultural studies for Hispanists and Lusitanians

  Lecture Bachelor Hispanic / Lusitanians Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

• Family and fiction in contemporary Ibero-American literature

  Seminar Bachelor Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

• Not just Pessoa: the Portuguese avant-garde

  Seminar Bachelor 6th semester + Master 2nd semester Lusitanian Studies, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

• Genre and Gender in the Early Modern Period (Iberoromania)

  Seminar Master Hispanic Studies / teacher training programme, University of Leipzig, summer term 2023

• Eça de Queiroz: Realism, Satire, Criticism

• A Panorama of the International Avantgarde

• Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• Introduction to Angolan Literature: Classics and Contemporary

• Cuban contexts of the 19th century: Cecilia Valdés

• Cervantes: exemplary novels.

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

• History and Memory in the Mozambican Novel

• City Imaginations in 20th/21st Century Literature

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• The different faces of Miguel de Unamuno

• Amazonian Imaginations: Nature, History, Culture

• Historical Imaginations in the Contemporary Novel

• Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• Falsifications, Conspirations, Simulacra

• Brazilian Modernism: Vernacular and Cosmopolitanism

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• Golden Age Theater. Texts and Contexts

• Phantasms and Prose of the "Fin de Siglo"

• Spanish Naturalism: Emilia Pardo Bazán

• Machado de Assis as / and World Literature

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• Aspects of Literature, Culture, History: Hispanic and Lusophone Studies

• Cervantes and the theory of the novel

• The work of João Guimarães Rosa

• The presence of the past. Specters in Latin American Literature

• Colloquium on Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

• French Decadent Prose (ca. 1890)

• Family and Patriarchal Society in the Brazilian Novel

• The Latin American "Jungle Novel"

• Literature and the History of Laughter (from Rabelais to Diderot)