Markus Huss
Contact
Name and title: Markus Huss
Mail: markus.huss@tyska.su.se
Workplace: Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Universitetsvägen 10 E, plan 5
Postal address Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk, finska, nederländska och tyska106 91 Stockholm
About me
Markus Huss has passed away.
Associate Professor of German, specializing in German literary studies.
Fulbright Hildeman Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017.
PhD in comparative literature, Södertörn University and Stockholm University, 2014.
Markus most often tauhgt courses in German language literature and culture on undergraduate and graduate level. He has also taught the course "Reading Across Literatures: Multilingualism, Translation and Comparison" as part of the Master's Programme in Literature (2020, 2021).
Markus has supervised the following doctoral students:
- Julia Baumann: #Återföreningen. En mediekulturlingvistisk undersökning av minneskulturen kring Tysklands återförening i de digitala medierna
- Jennifer Kappe: Depressions-Memoirs. Selbst- und Kulturreflexionen in deutsch- und englischsprachigen autobiographischen Erzählungen des 21. Jahrhunderts (disputerade 2022)
- Natasa Muratova: Widersinn als Widerstand? Regel- und Erwartungsbrüche in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts
Markus research interests included literary multilingualism, intermediality, German and Swedish 20th century literature and exile literature.
In May 2014 Markus defended his dissertation Motståndets akustik. Språk och (o)ljud hos Peter Weiss 1946–1960 [The Acoustics of Resistance. Language and Noise in Peter Weiss 1946– 1960]. It investigates Peter Weiss's return to German as literary language.