Jorge Joaquin Locane

Jorge Joaquin Locane is a Professor of Literature and Culture of the Spanish-speaking World at the University of Oslo, affiliated with the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (LLAKS). Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he holds a Licenciado en Letras from the University of Buenos Aires, a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, and a Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin. His research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature and its global circulation, particularly examining the interplay between globalization and local cultural production. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cologne and the Open University of Catalonia.

Locane’s academic work emphasizes material conditions of literary production, cultural diplomacy, and transnational intellectual networks, with notable attention to Latin America’s cultural relations with Germany and China during the Cold War era. His monograph De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial (2019) critiques world literature frameworks from a materialist perspective. He currently leads projects on the novel as a global form and chairs the ILLREP research group on illness representations in literature and culture.

He teaches courses on contemporary Latin American narrative, poetry, and literary theory, welcoming graduate students in modern Hispanic literatures. His awards include the ADLAF Prize for his doctoral thesis on globalized urban literatures. Locane collaborates with the Ibero-American Research Hub (IberoARH) and recently edited volumes on world exhaustion in Latin American cultures and Sino-Latin American cultural exchanges.