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Dr. Lena Seauve serves as Acting Professor for Spanish and French Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Rostock from October 2025 to September 2026, filling the position held by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Buschmann. She is simultaneously a Research Associate at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin, where she leads the DFG-funded project "Täterperspektiven" (Perpetrator Perspectives) since March 2022.
Dr. Seauve completed her Magistra Artium in 2008 at Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on Romain Gary's representation of the Shoah, followed by her doctorate in 2014 on Jean Potocki's Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse. She is currently completing her habilitation at Freie Universität Berlin with the work titled "In der Grauzone. Ambivalente Täterperspektiven in zeitgenössischen Romanen über kollektive politische Gewalt (Lateinamerika und Frankreich)".
Her research focuses on Spanish and French literature from the 18th to 21st centuries, with special attention to emotion research, narratology, Shoah literature, memory and gender studies, and representations of violence in French and Latin American literature. She is particularly known for her work on perpetrator perspectives in contemporary literature about political violence.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent focus on how contemporary literature represents political violence, particularly through perpetrator perspectives. Her work examines how authors use emotional strategies to engage readers with difficult historical subjects including military dictatorships in Latin America, the Holocaust, and genocides. She has developed a specialized expertise in analyzing how narrative techniques affect readers' emotional responses to violence.
Dr. Seauve has organized numerous academic events including the 2023 workshop "The phenomenon of the New Right in European and Latin American narrative literature" and has moderated literary events featuring authors such as Mathias Énard and Carlos Franz. Her DFG-funded project on perpetrator perspectives represents a significant research commitment.
She leads the DFG-funded research project "Täterperspektiven" at the Latin American Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, which examines emotionalization as a narrative strategy in contemporary French and Latin American novels about politically and ethnically motivated violence. Her work bridges literary studies with historical and sociological approaches to understanding violence representation.
