Dr. Jonas Hock

• French literature and theory of the 20th century (esp. 30s-60s)
• Mediterranean (&) Island Studies (esp. ethnography and island literatures)
• Enlightenment research (especially German-French cultural contact)
• Baroque research (especially conceptualism and politics)

Memberships

• Young Academy | Mainz(Link)
• German Romance Studies Association (DRV)
• French Romance Studies Association (FRV)
• German Association of Italianists (DIV)
• Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d'Italiano (AIPI)
• German Society for the Study of the 18th Century (DGEJ)

University activities

since October 2025: Parental leave

from November 2024: Advisory Board of the Hansen Foundation (Cultural and Collective Studies)

May 2024 - June 2025: Deputy Professor of French Literature in a European Context at Saarland University (incl. Head of the Institut d'Études Françaises (external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window))

March 2021-September 2023 Board member for the mid-level faculty of the German Romance Studies Association (DRV)

June 2020-April 2024 Representative for Italian at the Universität Regensburg Teacher Education Centre (RUL)

October 2019-April 2024 Representative of the mid-level faculty in the institute management (UR)

October 2018-March 2019 Academic research sabbatical

February 2018 Degree in doctoral studies (dissertation topic: "Confession and Ambiguity - Pierre Klossowski's La vocation suspendue between Renouveau Catholique and Nouveau romance"; Disputatio: October 2017)

January 2015-June 2017 Representative of doctoral candidates on the Board of Directors of the Doctoral Programme of the Faculties of Arts and Humanities (PUR)

April 2015-December 2018 Editorial assistant (mainly reviews) for the journal Romance Studies

Since April 2014 Assistant professor at the chair of Prof Dr Isabella von Treskow

Winter term 2025-26

Parental leave

Summer semester 2025 (UR)

Project seminar Storytelling across cultures: Gorizia als literarischer Raum (with Regine Strätling, It. Literaturwissenschaft, 2 SWS)

Project seminar Literature of the French Enlightenment: Voltaire (with Lasse Schaupp, French Literature, 2 SWS)

Excursion Gorizia & Nova Gorica - Due città, tre culture, una storia (week 27)

Winter semester 2024-25 (UdS)

Advanced seminar Les îles de Nathacha Appanah (French literary studies, 2 SWS)

Block seminar Management culturel franco-allemand (cultural management, 3 SWS)

Summer semester 2024 (UR)

Project seminar Archive research: Testimonies of survivors of the Flossenbürg concentration camp complex (with Regina Schuhbauer, 2 SWS)

Winter term 2023-24

Project seminar L'affaire Dreyfus - au-delà des " J'accuse " de Zola et de Polanski (French cultural studies, 2 SWS)

Exercise state exam course in French literary studies: Narrativik (3 SWS)

An overview of the courses from summer semester 2014 to summer semester 2023 is available here as a PDF. (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)

Monograph

• Confession and ambiguity. Pierre Klossowski's early work.
  Heidelberg 2018.

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Series / Journals (co-editor)

• Zibaldone - Journal for Contemporary Italian Culture, Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen (with Thomas Bremer)
• [re.visionen], Turia + Kant, Vienna/Berlin (with Marco Gutjahr)
  Edited by J. H.:
  • Jean-Luc Nancy: Maurice Blanchot - Political Passion (2016)
  • Louis-René des Forêts: Poems by Samuel Wood (German-French, 2015)
  • Louis-René des Forêts: Step by step to the last (German-French, 2015)
  • Louis-René des Forêts: The Meteors of the Sea (German-French, 2014)
• Blanchot-Studies, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg (with Marco Gutjahr)

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Editorships

Collected volumes & dossiers

• (with Marco Gutjahr) Dissidence - Terrorism - Revolution. Blanchot's early political journalism. Würzburg 2025 [in prep.]
• (with Anne-Sophie Donnarieix) À bout de souffle? Historicités du cinéma populaire.
  Lendemains 190/191 (2025)
• (with Laura Linzmeier) Dossier: Italoromania and Mediterranean Islands.
  In: Italian 90 (2024), pp. 95-147
• (with Marco Gutjahr) In the Space of Criticism. Maurice Blanchot and literature.
  Würzburg 2023
• (with Laura Linzmeier) The Adriatic contact zone.
  Zibaldone 74 (2022)
• (with Estelle Mouton-Rovira, Kai Nonnenmacher)
  Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 25 (2022)
• (with Annika Haas and others) Resistant Theory. Critical reading and writing.
  Berlin 2018

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Essays (selection)

2023-2025

• "À nous les temps modernes". In: Lendemains 190/191 (2025), pp. 43-55.
• "Overcoming the island idyll on Ventotene". In: Italian 90 (2024), pp. 127-141.
• "Seas of flowers beyond naturalising literary history". In: Recherches Germaniques (2024).
• "Le discours philosophique d'après-guerre". Berlin/Boston 2023.
• "Questioning Sardità". In: Mediterranean Studies 31/1 (2023).
• "In the space of critique". Würzburg 2023.

2016-2022 (selection)

• "Réinvestir la frontière entre fiction et réalité". Berlin 2023.
• "Prince of the Adriatic?". In: Zibaldone 74 (2022).
• "Argutia and brevitas". Berlin/Boston 2020.
• "Correspondance littéraire". In: Handbook of letters (2020).
• "Les Mendiants de Louis-René des Forêts". Berlin 2016.
• "The strategic potential of the letter". In: Cahiers d'Études Germaniques 70 (2016).

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Reviews (selection)

• Enrico Terrinoni: La vita dell'altro. In: Zibaldone 78 (2024).
• Maddalena Fingerle: L'Adone non è noioso. In: Zibaldone 77 (2024).
• Dominique Rabaté: La passion de l'impossible. In: Lendemains 43/127 (2018).
• Kirill Abrosimov: Enlightenment beyond the public sphere. In: Romance Studies 2 (2015).

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Smaller contributions

• "Root canal treatments at the Frankfurt Book Fair". In: Zibaldone 79 (2025).
• "Pinocchio antifascista". In: Zibaldone 77 (2024).
• "Black Sicily". In: Zibaldone 73 (2022).
• "Twice Pulcinella". In: Zibaldone 65 (2018).

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Interviews

• (with Laura Linzmeier) "A colloquio con Giovanni Ruffino". In: Italian 90 (2024).
• Interview with Birgit Schönau. In: Zibaldone 77 (2024).
• "Anne Weber, véracité de l'auteur". In: fixxion 25 (2022).
• Interview with Shelomo Selinger. In: Blick in die Wissenschaft (2019).

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Translations

Literary

• Louis-René des Forêts: Poems by Samuel Wood (2015)
• Louis-René des Forêts: Step by step to the last (2015)
• Louis-René des Forêts: The Meteors of the Sea (2014)
• Maurice Blanchot: Afterwards. The idyll. The last word (2012)

Theoretical

• Jean-Luc Nancy: "Interpretation of art" (2024)
• Emmanuel Levinas: The Obliteration (2019)
• Michel Foucault: The Great Stranger (2014)
• Maurice Blanchot: The literary space (2012)
• Jacques Rancière: "People or Multitudines?" (2009)

2025

18. February 2025 - Workshop, Department of Romance Studies, University of Heidelberg
Workshop: "Italo Calvino's La nuvola di smog and literary theory"

14. January 2025 - Guest lecture, University of Trier
"Deconstruction: Nuvole, nebbie, smog - Calvino's dirty signifiers"
(VL "Introduction to Gender Studies and Interculturality Research", Junior Professor Dr Lena Wetenkamp)

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2024

18. July 2024 - Guest lecture, University of Regensburg
"Female gaze / regard féminin: Gaze regimes and gender attributions in film"
(together with Kristina Köhler; research colloquium on the early modern period)

29. June 2024 - Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
"Lumières in the half-shadow - on some grand theses about the Enlightenment (based on Friedrich Melchior Grimm)"

9. April 2024 - Université Clermont Auvergne (CELIS)
"Political conceptualism after '45"

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2023

18. October 2023 - Regensburg
"Friedrich Melchior Grimm: 'French' Enlightenment from Regensburg"

28. September 2023 - Gotha Research Centre, University of Erfurt
"Ratisbonne - Leipzig - Paris : Les années d'apprentissage de Grimm"

26. September 2023 - 38th Romance Studies Conference, Leipzig University
"'Translato' and 'traduzione': On the ingenious potential of translation in Emanuele Tesauro's Cannocchiale aristotelico"

3. July 2023 - Saarland University
"'Pour répondre à un besoin du cœur' - L'Archiduc Louis-Salvator en Vénétie"

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2022

6. October 2022 - University of Regensburg
"Conceptions of 'natural' cycles: Wölfflin - Curtius - Hocke"

22. September 2022 - Congress of Francoromanists, Vienna
"À nous les temps modernes : René Clair et Charlie Chaplin"

17. June 2022 - University of Zadar (ISISA-Conference)
"Small Mediterranean Islands in 20th Century Intellectual History"

3. June 2022 - University of Regensburg
"Reconsidering the 'Dantean' Dimension of the Madrigali a cinque voci"

5. May 2022 - University of Regensburg
"Les voyages de Dumas en Allemagne"

6. April 2022 - University of Regensburg
"Intellectuals/islands - archaism, tourism and exile"

1. April 2022 - Hamburg (DFG-Iceland Studies Network)
"Three Theses on Mediterranean Islandness in Early Modern Literature"

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2021

19. November 2021 - University of Regensburg
"Collectivising Dimensions of Island Spaces: Case Studies from the Mediterranean"

4. October 2021 - XXXVIIth Romance Studies Conference
"'Bianca nel latteo sen, vermiglia in volto' - Sitti Maani between Europeanisation and exoticisation"

23. July 2021 - Mainz
"Mediterranean islands as places of thought in modernity"

25. June 2021 - University of Regensburg
"À l'image de Jérôme Ferrari : photographie et mort, encore ?"

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2019

21. November 2019 - University of Vienna
"Islandness and Identity - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Sardinia" (with Laura Linzmeier)

12. October 2019 - University of Graz
"The Resilience of the Island or: The Impossible Insularity of Sicily"

10. May 2019 - University of Augsburg
"The homo europeus and the 'irregular' Europe"

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2018

7. December 2018 - HU Berlin
"Argutia and brevitas"

22. November 2018 - University of Bamberg
"Sprezzatura, discreción, honnêteté"

27. September 2018 - Osnabrück
"Romanticisme gulliverien"

7. September 2018 - Università per Stranieri di Siena
"Paesaggi lucani - paesaggi leviani"

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2017

18. November 2017 - Université Lyon II
"France and the Lumières as negative foils of German national literature"

17. June 2017 - University of Regensburg
"Melchior Grimm comme médiateur culturel franco-allemand"

11. March 2017 - Université Clermont Auvergne
"Profession et vocation - Pierre Klossowski"

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2016

7. April 2016 - University of Heidelberg
"Noose instead of cross - réécriture of passion in Sade, Nietzsche and Klossowski"

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2015

4. November 2015 - Filmgalerie Leerer Beutel
"Olive meets Simone - feminist views on Little Miss Sunshine"

22. June 2015 - University of Hamburg
"La triple suspension dans La vocation suspendue"

11. March 2015 - University of Toulouse II / Goethe-Institut Toulouse
"Friedrich Melchior Grimm's Correspondance littéraire"

7. March 2015 - University of Rostock
"The play of invisibilities in Pierre Klossowski's Lois de l'hospitalité"

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2014

26. September 2014 - University of Münster
"Hors contexte ? - Les mendiants de Louis-René des Forêts"

3. February 2014 - University of Potsdam
"The translator's gaze" - Talk about Maurice Blanchot

• Management (representation) of the Institut d'Études Françaises (IEF), Saarbrücken
  Events and academic coordination (May 2024 - June 2025)
• Lecture:
  "Friedrich Melchior Grimm: 'French' Enlightenment from Regensburg"
  Lecture series Historical flights of fancy. New perspectives on Regensburg's city history, City of Regensburg in cooperation with the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (18 October 2023)
• Co-moderation:
  Panel discussion "University teaching in the digital age",
  The Young Academy (14 November 2022)
• Podcast:
  "Possibilities of an island. Laura Linzmeier and Jonas Hock on Mediterranean Island Studies",
  Fabulari. The academic podcast on literature and film in Romania (21 April 2022)
• Position paper:
  "Holistic view - university teaching in the digital age",
  in: Research & Teaching, vol. 28, no. 4 (April 2022), pp. 290-291 (with A. Hofmann, Kr. Köhler, Chr. Lang, B. Loy, M. Salzmann & L. Wetenkamp)
  - Long version: "Six demands for university teaching in the digital age" (Blog by Jan-Martin Wiarda, 9 March 2022)
• Initiation:
  "Statement by the Romance Studies Centre on the practice of fixed-term contracts at German universities",
  DRV newsletter, autumn 2021, p. 27-30
• School cooperation:
  P-Seminar (Head: Fabian Hauner), Nepomuk-Gymnasium Rohr i. NB,
  on the biography of Friedrich Melchior Grimm (winter semester 2019/20)
• Short lecture:
  "Olive meets Simone - feminist views on Little Miss Sunshine",
  Film series Filmisches Philosophical Issues in theology, Filmgalerie Leerer Beutel (4 November 2015)