Professor Christopher F. Laferl (Departament of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Salzburg, Austria)

Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Christopher F. Laferl, MAS

Academic Career:

Since 2015:                 Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences in Austria (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/m/laferl-christopher-f/)

2004–present              Full Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Salzburg, Austria

10/2011–2018             Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Cultural & Social Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria

2002–2004                  Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Vienna, Austria

1990–2002                  Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Vienna, Austria

06/2002                       Habilitation [Second doctoral dissertation], venia docendi: Romance Literatures, University of Vienna. Dissertation: ’A mulata é a tal’: Song Lyrics and Ethnicity in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad & Tobago from 1920 to 1960

06/1996                       Ph. D. Romance Languages. First class honors. University of Vienna. Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Rössner and Prof. Dr. Karl Vocelka. Dissertation: The Culture of the Spaniards in Austria during the Reign of Ferdinand I. 1522 – 1564

06/1992                       M. A. History (Staatsprüfung). First class honors. Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vienna [Institute for Austrian Historical Research, the Austrian equivalent of the French École des Chartes]. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Herwig Wolfram. Thesis: Edition of the Family Correspondence of Ferdinand I. – 1533

10/1989                       M. A. Spanish and History (Diplom). First class honors. University of Vienna. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Rössner. Thesis: The Theological Conceit in the Poetry of Lope de Vega and Góngora

Some Book Publications

1. ’Record it, and let it be known’: Song Lyrics, Gender, and Ethnicity in Brazil, Cuba, Martinique, and Trinidad & Tobago from 1920 to 1960. Vienna: Lit-Verlag, 2005, 380 pp.
2. Anspruch auf das Wort. Geschlecht, Wissen und Schreiben im 17. Suor Maria Celeste und Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [The Right to the Word: Gender, Knowledge, and Writing in the 17^th Century: Suor Maria Celeste and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]. Vienna: WUV, 2002, 171 pp. (with Birgit Wagner).
3. Die Kultur der Spanier in Österreich unter Ferdinand I. 1522 – 1564 [The Culture of the Spaniards in Austria during the Reign of Ferdinand I. 1522 – 1564], Junge Wiener Romanistik (ed. Hans Hinterhäuser), vol. 14, Vienna: Böhlau, 1997, 346 pp.
4. Texte zur Theorie der Biographie und Autobiographie [Texts on the Theory of Biography and Autobiography], Stuttgart: Reclam, 2016, 368 pp.; (co-edited with Anja Tippner).
5. The Correspondence of Ferdinand I. Family Correspondence Vol. 5: 1535 and 1536 (= Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Neuere Geschichte Österreichs. Bd. 109), Wien / Köln / Weimar: Böhlau, 2015; 714 pp.; (co-edited with Bernadette Hofinger / Harald Kufner / Judith Moser-Kroiss / Nicola Tschugmell).
6. Handbuch Spanisch. Sprache, Literatur, Kultur, Geschichte in Spanien und Hispanoamerika. Für Studium, Lehre, Praxis [Handbook for Spanish. Language, Literature, Culture, History in Spain and Spanish America]. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, ²2013 [2012], 982 pp.; (co-edited with Joachim Born / Robert Folger / Bernhard Pöll).