Arvi Sepp holds a doctorate in Language and Literature and received his PhD with a study of the diaries of Victor Klemperer (Topographie des Alltags. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüre von Victor Klemperers Tagebüchern 1933-1945). His research was awarded with the Tauber Research Award of Brandeis University (USA), the Prix de la Fondation Auschwitz, the Annual Prize for Scientific Communication of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, and the Theodor-Frings-Preis of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He is a professor of German literature and translation studies at the Free University of Brussels. His research mainly focuses on the translation of heteroglossia in migration literature and trauma in Holocaust literature. Other research interests concern the relationship between ideology and aesthetics in German literature.

Contact: Arvi.Sepp@vub.be

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