Claudia Gronemann

Claudia Gronemann has been Professor of Romance Literature and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim’s Romance Studies Department since 2009. Her research spans postcolonial theory, autobiography/autofiction, gender studies, and intermediality in 18th-, 20th-, and 21st-century Francophone, Spanish, and Latin American literature.

• Co-editor of Passagen: Transdisziplinäre Kulturperspektiven (Olms Verlag)
• Member of the editorial board for Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII

Her work interrogates: gender performativity in Spanish Enlightenment texts; transcultural memory (e.g., Saint Augustine in Maghrebian narratives); postcolonial hybridity; and intermedial strategies in Maghrebian and Latin American cinema.

Recent publications explore picaresque narratives in Algerian literature, conjugal friendship as a model for marriage in Spanish comedy, and queer readings of Tunisian cinema. She employs keywords like transcultural memory, gender performativity, autofictional strategies, colonial legacies in film, entangled histories, and intermediality in postcolonial contexts.

As a leading scholar in gendered literary analysis, she has co-edited volumes on Spanish gender debates, Maghrebian masculinities, and Latin American intermediality. Her habilitation Polyphonic Enlightenment (2009) established her expertise in 18th-century Spanish gender discourses.