Sebastian Imoberdorf
Doctor of Philosophy in Ibero-Romance Languages and Literatures
Biography
Sebastian Imoberdorf studied at the Universities of CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Bern and Fribourg (Switzerland) and holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He also possesses several teaching credentials in secondary and higher education, as well as extensive experience as a lecturer at various institutions. Since 2018, he has been teaching as a lecturer at the University of Fribourg. In 2020, he received the Vigener Prize for the best doctoral thesis from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the same university for his study Identidades múltiples: hibridismo cultural y social en la narrativa hispanounidense de los siglos XX y XXI (Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, 2021). He has presented his research results at international conferences in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States, and has published various essays on Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latinx literature.
Research and publications
- A minority between two worlds
- Back to the roots: the search for identity in inter-American prose
- Beyond the Margins: Human Rights Violations Against Undocumented Persons, Homosexuals, and Women in Inter-American Narrative
- Multiple Identities. Cultural and Social Hybridity in 20th and 21st Century US Latinx Narrative
- Of Autists, Murders and Nonconformists: another interpretation of «Latinity» in Norte (2011) by Edmundo Paz Soldán
- U.S. Hispano literature and film: two different examples of overcoming artistic, social and cultural barriers