António Sousa Ribeiro

0000-0002-6552-8776

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António Sousa Ribeiro is a full professor for German Studies at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. From 1991 until 2008 he was responsible for Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. He is the co-coordinator of the doctoral programmes on Discourses: Culture, History and Society and on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship. Among several other functions, he has been in previous years president of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Arts (2000-2002), president of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Social Studies (2003-2007) and director of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts (2009-2011). He is the current coordinator of the board of directors of CES. He has published extensively on several topics in Austrian and German Studies (with special emphasis on Karl Kraus and Viennese modernity), Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and the Sociology of Culture. His current research interests include Austrian and German Studies, Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Translation Studies, Studies on Modernism, and studies on violence, culture and identities. He is also occasionally active as a literary translator.

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