Graduate Network: Baroque/Neo-Baroque

Corinne Flicker

Corinne Flicker is a Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature and in modern and contemporary French theatre at Aix-Marseille University, Department of French studies. She is a specialist in rewriting Shakespeare and the Elizabethan playwriters in the French theatre from Symbolism to the 21st century, and more widely in aesthetic transfers into modern and contemporary theatre, especially neobaroque forms on the modern stage, topics on which she has published many studies and articles. 

Juan Luis González García

Juan Luis González García is an Associate Professor in Art Theory and History of Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and holds a European PhD in Art History from the Universidad Complutense. His research interests focus on the study of collecting and the connections between art, rhetoric and visual culture in the sixteenth and the seventeenth-century Hispanic world. 

Nicole Haitzinger

Nicole Haitzinger is a Professor at the Department of Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg. Since 2019 she is the director of the FWF-funded project Border Dancing across Time and of the inter- and transdisciplinary doctoral program Science and Art. 

Dennis Ioffe

Dennis Ioffe (PhD University of Amsterdam, 2009) is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies (Titulaire de la Chaire de langue et littérature Russe), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Before coming to ULB he worked at Ghent University, University of Edinburgh, Memorial University and the University of Amsterdam. Since January 2016 he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of “Russian Literature” (Elsevier Science BV). 

Helga Mitterbauer

Helga Mitterbauer holds the chair of German literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She obtained her PhD (2000) and her Venia legendi (2008) from the University of Graz. From 2010-2015, she taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She was a Visiting professor at the Universities of Zagreb, Innsbruck, and the ELTE Budapest. She is co-directing the project ‘A Comparative Intermedial History of Baroque’ for the ICLA-book series CHLEL (Amsterdam, Benjamins). 

David Moriente

David Moriente holds a PhD (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2009, Department of Art History and Department of Linguistics, Modern Languages, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature programmes). He is currently based at the UAM as Assistant Professor and his interests comprise architectural history, social history of the image, and science fiction studies.

Clemens Peck

Clemens Peck, PhD, is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of Salzburg. His areas of research are Early Modern German literature, with an emphasis on drama and theatre, Neobaroque, literary utopias and utopian discourses, interchanges of literature and diplomacy, German-Jewish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Jörg Robert

Jörg Robert, PhD, is a Professor for German Philology and Early Modern Literary History at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Since 2019 he is also deputy head and sub-project manager of the SFB 1391 “Andere Ästhetik”. His fields of interest include Poetics and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period, the History of Culture and Ideas as well as Intermediality and Intertextuality Research.

Debora Vaccari

Debora Vaccari is Professore Associato at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. She is a specialist in Golden Age Literature, especially in the theatre of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She has studied the theatrical manuscripts of the first professional companies and themes and characteristics of the first Lope de Vega’s production. She has also been interested in the staging and in the edition of comedias, and the Italian adaptations of Moreto’s dramas. Furthermore, she’s been studying the Spanish cancioneros preserved in Rome and she’s been working on the gender perspective applied to Medieval and Baroque Spanish Literature.

Alexandra Vranceanu Pagliardini

Alexandra Vranceanu Pagliardini (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, Department of Literary Studies) is a specialist in Comparative literature and Romanian studies, Ekphrasis in contemporary culture, and migrant and transnational literature. PhD in Philology (2000) with a thesis in intermediality (narrative in word and image), HDR at Paris XII with a study on ekphrasis in contemporary culture (2012). She has also published and taught courses on transcultural intermediality, that can be included in the field of the neo-baroque and its relationship to the postmodern.