Wodianka, Stephanie

Stephanie Wodianka is Professor of Romance Literature at Rostock University, Germany since 2010. Her research interests – documented in several monographies and books – include representations, practices and theories of the collective memory (littérature, films, chanson française), the European meditative literature of the seventeenth century, the relations between aesthetics and the construction of (trans)cultural identities (especially in the context of the Grand tour), and concepts and poetics of modern myth. Since 2013 she has been chairing the interdisciplinary doctoral program on Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship, and she is currently working on a project on cultural semiotics of the cardinal directions, Localisations de l’Europe: sémiotiques culturelles des points cardinaux, edited by Stephanie Wodianka and Sebastian Neumeister (2016).