Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Hispanic Studies – Portuguese Studies – Comparative Literature – Gender Studies
Tobias Brandenberger is a Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany (Full Professor, Ibero-Romance and Ibero-American Literatures). In the past, Brandenberger served as a Professor in the Department of Iberian Literatures and Languages at the Universität Basel, Switzerland. His research focuses on literary gender studies, intermediality, and the cultural and literary relations between Spain and Portugal, as well as the imagology of these relations.
Prof. Brandenberger is co-editor of Deseos, juegos, camuflaje. Los estudios de género y queer y las literaturas hispánicas (de la Edad Media a la Ilustración) (2011) and Corpo a corpo. Körper, Sexualität, Geschlecht in den lusophonen Kulturen (2011).
His numerous contributions to the field of Iberian Studies include “Antagonismos intraibéricos y literatura áurea. Algunas reflexiones metodológicas ejemplificadas” (2007) “Spanisch-portugiesisch er Kulturtransfer im 16./17. Jahrhundert: Mittlerinstanzen und politischer Konflikt” (2007), “Von Portugal nach Spanien: die Briefe Philipps II. an seine Töchter (1581-1583)” (2008), “Literature at the crossroads of politics: Spain and Portugal, 1580” (2010), Gewalt, Gefühl, Geschlecht. Männlichkeit(en) in der iberoromanischen Narrativik der Frühen Neuzeit (2016). Additionally, Prof. Brandenberger is the co-editor of Portugal und Spanien: Probleme (k)einer Beziehung / Portugal e Espanha: Encontros e desencontros (2005) and A construção do outro: Espanha e Portugal frente a frente (2008) and single author of La muerte de la ficción sentimental. Transformaciones de un género iberorrománico (2012).
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Tobias Brandenberger’s publications in the IStReS database:
Brandenberger, Tobias. 2007a. ‘Antagonismos intraibéricos y literatura áurea. Algunas reflexiones metodológicas ejemplificadas’. Iberoamericana 7 (28): 79–97.