Joachim Küpper

Joachim Küpper (born 1952) is a professor of romance studies and comparative literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.

[1] He is the author of eight monographs and approximately 100 articles, as well as the editor of numerous volumes and scholarly journals.

Following upon his doctoral dissertation (1980) and his habilitation (1987), he became a full professor of romance studies at the University of Wuppertal in 1989.

In 1987, Küpper was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, and in 2001 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

For many years, he was a visiting associate professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, as well as a Directeur de recherche invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.