Wolfgang Hottner
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aestethic Studies
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Wolfgang Hottner is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, UiB as well as is a literary critic and translator. He studied literature, philosophy, and art history in Munich, Berkeley, and Yale and earned his Ph.D from Humboldt Universität Berlin in 2017 on the literary and aesthetic history of inorganic matter around 1800, published as “Kristallisationen. Ästhetik und Poetik des Anorganischen im späten 18. Jahrhundert” with Wallstein Press (2020).
He is the leader of the interdisciplinary research group "Contemporary Aesthetics" at LLE and works on literature’s connection to science and media, theories of world literature and translation, intellectual history and the history of theory, digital literature, theory and history of rhyme. He is currently writing books on the connection between the history of theory and translation as well as on the history and theory of rhyme in modernity.
He was a visiting scholar in the University of Tokyo’s Department of German in 2019, a Research Fellow at IFK in Vienna in 2021, a Fellow of Klassik Stiftung in Weimar (2022) as well as at the researchcluster Temporal Communities der FU Berlin (2023).
