Berit Callsen

Berit Callsen is an External Senior Fellow at the University of Osnabrück (November 2024 – April 2025), focusing on Romance Cultural Studies. Previously, she served as Junior Professor for Romance Cultural Studies at the same university from 2017 to 2024. She holds a PhD in Romance Philology from Humboldt University Berlin (2013). Her research emphasizes natural figurations in Latin American literature and film, body constructions in Spanish and Latin American cultures, subject cultures of Spanish modernity (19th/20th centuries), and visuality in literature and film across Spanish, Latin American, and French contexts.

• Research Highlights: Submerged Visualities project (2023, São Paulo, Brazil) as a Mecila Fellow.

Her work bridges literary analysis with cultural studies, addressing themes like environmental narratives, modernity, and cross-cultural visual poetics.