Jutta Weiser

PD Dr. Jutta Weiser serves as a Research Associate and Managing Director at the Institute of Romance Studies, part of the Faculty of Languages and Literature at Humboldt University Berlin. Her academic career spans multiple German universities including Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Mannheim, University of Siegen, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and University of Duisburg-Essen, where she completed her Habilitation in 2010.

Dr. Weiser's research focuses on autobiographical and autofictional writing, theories of authorship, literary anti-Semitism, gender and intersectionality, Jewish literature and generational memory. Her work extensively examines Chantal Akerman and Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz. Earlier research explored literature and medicine (19th-20th centuries), literature and psychoanalysis, moralistics, and self-portraits in early modern literature and painting.

Her scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with French and Hispanic literatures, particularly examining colonial and postcolonial identities, religious themes in literature, and the intersection of science and literary expression. Recent publications demonstrate growing interest in North African literary traditions, thermodynamics in naturalist literature, and contemporary explorations of misanthropy and moral philosophy.

Dr. Weiser has edited significant works including Autofiction and Media Reality: Cultural Formations of the Postmodern Subject (2013) and co-edited the journal issue Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: identidad criolla y procesos de transculturación (2019).

She currently leads management at the Institute of Romance Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, focusing on Romance literatures with particular emphasis on French-language traditions. Her office is located at Dorotheenstraße 65, Room 4.36 in Berlin.