Robert Buch

Dr. Robert Buch serves as a Researcher in the Department of Comparative Literature at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2021. His academic career spans multiple international institutions including the University of New South Wales (2011-2020), University of Pittsburgh (2010-2011), and University of Chicago (2003-2010).

His educational background features a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University (1999-2003). His research centers on the afterlife of religion in modern literature and secularization processes, with additional focus on Imagery and Literature, and Realism through Modernism in European contexts.

Dr. Buch co-organizes the Young Researchers' Forum 'Literature and Religion' with Prof. Dr. Daniel Weidner since 2021 and coordinates the research focus 'Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge' since May 2023.

• Research interests include psychological narrative in modernity, literary theory, and comparative approaches to European literature
• Teaching portfolio covers naive storytelling, Zeitgeist in novels, literature as provocation, and nihilism in modern literature

His scholarly contributions connect literary studies with religious studies and cultural history, examining how literature processes religious sensibilities within secular frameworks.