Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen

Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is Professor of Romance Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at Saarland University. He holds a PhD in Romance Philology (Bayreuth, Germany) and in History (EHESS, France) and is co-director of the International Research Training Group Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural
Spaces. His research fields concern cultural transfers between France and Germany and between Europe and non-European societies, conceptual history, francophone literatures and medias (Québec, Sub-Saharan Africa), and the theory of intercultural
communication. Recent books: (co-edited with Christoph Vatter): Multiculturalisme et diversité culturelle dans les médias au Canada et au Québec (2013); (co-edited with Aurélien Boivin and Jacques Walter): Régionalismes littéraires et artistiques comparés.
Québec/Canada – Europe (2014); Le livre aimé du peuple. Les almanachs québécois de 1777 à nos jours (2014); (co-edited with Marc-André and Clorinda Donato): Jesuit Accounts on the Colonial Americas. Intercultural Transfers, intellectual Disputes, and
Textualities (2014); (co-edited with Sylvère Mbondobari): Villes coloniales/métropoles postcoloniales. Représentations littéraires, images médiatiques et regards croisés (2015); (co-edited with Michel Espagne): Transferts de savoirs sur l’Afrique (2015).

DEcolonial Heritage


DEcolonial Heritage

Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory

2018,  278  pages,  paperback,  34,90 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-3790-6

Spaces of Difference


Spaces of Difference

Conflicts and Cohabitation

2016,  260  pages,  paperback,  32,90 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-3385-4

Of ‘Contact Zones’ and ‘Liminal Spaces’


Of ‘Contact Zones’ and ‘Liminal Spaces’

Mapping the Everyday Life of Cultural Translation

2015,  136  pages,  paperback,  24,90 €,  ISBN 978-3-8309-3365-6