Discourses of Mass Violence in Comparative Perspective
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Juliane Prade-Weiss

Prof. Dr. Juliane Prade-Weiss

Comparative Literature

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Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Department of Comparative Literature
Schellingstrasse 3
80799 Munich
Germany

Room: Schellingstrasse 7, 202
Phone: +49 (0)89 2180-3185

Website: https://www.komparatistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/prade_weiss/index.html
Website: https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/JulianePradeWeiss

Juliane Prade-Weiss is Professor of Comparative Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, acting Department Head, and board member of the ProEnviron Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

2007-17, she was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Goethe-University Frankfurt, where she earned
her Dr. phil., published as Sprachoffenheit: Mensch Tier und Kind in der Autobiographie [Openness for Language: Humans, Animals, and Infants in Autobiography], Königshausen & Neumann 2013).
2017-19 she has been a DFG research fellow at Yale University to complete her Habilitation thesis, published as Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and Complaining (Bloomsbury, 2020).
2019-20 she has been EU Marie SkÅ‚odowska Curie fellow at Vienna University with the project "Complicity: A Crisis of Participation in Testimonies of Totalitarianism in Contemporary German-language Literatures" (portrayed in CORDIS).

She has published on texts in German, English, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Czech, and Russian in the fields of European and global East-West-narratives, language and violence, affect and emotion theory, memory culture and politics, psychoanalysis, literature and the law, as well as environmental studies.

She is member of two consortia:
the LMU Center for Advanced Studies Research Focus Order Contestation: The EU and Beyond,
and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings.