Ottmar Ette

Born in the Black Forest (Germany) in 1956, Ottmar Ette has been Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Brandenburg since 1995 (venia legendi: Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature). Having studied in Freiburg (Germany) and Madrid (Spain), he wrote his dissertation on José Martí in 1990 at the University of Freiburg and his habilitation on Roland Barthes at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Bavaria, in 1995. Ottmar Ette taught at Eichstätt as assistant professor from 1987 to 1995, before coming to Potsdam. He has been a visiting professor in various countries of Latin America and in the USA.

In 2014, Ette was elected Honorary member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). Since 2013, he has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and member of the „Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin“. He also has been a regular member of the Academia Europaea since 2010. In the same year, he became Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages Research at University of London School of Advances Studies.

In 2004-2005, Ottmar Ette was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Further fellowships brought him to the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies and the Freiburg Institute for Advances Studies (FRIAS).