Nina Preyer

Dr. Nina Preyer is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her office is located at Universitätsstraße 2, 45141 Essen (Room R12 R03 A19), and she can be contacted via phone (+49 201 183-7252) or email. She completed her PhD in 2012 with a dissertation on Severo Sarduy's literary poetics, awarded summa cum laude.

Her research explores:

• Caribbean literatures with focus on post-1959 Cuban fiction
• Literature-medicine intersections in 18th-century French works
• Psychoanalytic literary approaches and self-thematization
• Literary theory (semiotics, post-structuralism, deconstruction)
• Art-literature relationships and art historical contexts

Preyer's publications demonstrate consistent focus on medical humanities, Hispanic literary analysis, and French Enlightenment studies, with recent work examining disease narratives, artistic representations, and theoretical frameworks across Romance literatures.

Awards:

• Elise Richter Prize 2013 (German Association of Romance Studies)
• Dissertation Prize for Cultural Studies 2013 (2nd prize, KWI)
• University Teaching Award 2017

She maintains active academic governance roles as Faculty Council member and institutional representative since 2012. Her international research includes funded stays at Princeton University, University of Havana, and Université de Perpignan.