Oliver Lubrich

Oliver Lubrich, born in Berlin in 1970, studied literature in Berlin, Berkeley and Saint-Étienne. He was a Junior Professor of Rhetoric at FU Berlin and a visiting professor in Chicago, Long Beach, São Paulo and Monterrey. He has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bern since 2011. He published monographs on Shakespeare’s Self-deconstruction, Postcolonial Poetics and Alexander von Humboldt. He edited numerous works by Humboldt, including Views of the Cordilleras, Central Asia and Cosmos. He is researching testimonies from Nazi Germany, for example by Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Albert Camus. He edited John F. Kennedy’s “Hidden Diary” from 1937 and the German novellas by Thomas Wolfe, as well as the collections Travels in the Reich (1933–1945) and Reports from the Target Zone (1939–1945). With neuroscientists, he conducted studies in experimental rhetoric. With primatologists and ethnologists, he investigated the role of affects in field research.