Marília Jöhnk teaches Comparative Literature at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Her work focuses on literature from Latin America, Spain and France, decolonialism, translation, multilingualism, and gender. She is currently serving as co-director of a research project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space on forgotten women writers, critics, and thinkers from the 18th and early 19th century. Marília is also part of a research network (funded by the German Research Foundation) on Brazilian-Italian cultural contact. Her current project focuses on the poetics of vulnerability in indigenous art from Latin America and Québec.
Projects
Open Wounds, Lost Tongues: Writing Vulnerability in Indigenous Art
Lost in Archives. Auf der Suche nach unsichtbaren Frauen https://lostinarchives.hypotheses.org/
Relevant Publications
La actualidad de Gloria Anzaldúa. Nuevas lecturas de Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza. Dossier HeLix 2025. (edited with Elena von Ohlen)
Gabriela Mistral’s Travel Writing on Brazil: Creating a Pan-American Connectedness. Sandra Vlasta, Winfried Eckel (eds.): Moving Identities. Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing. Heidelberg: Winter 2025.
Pedro Lemebel and the Latin American Chronicle: Memory, Archive, Cityscape. HeLix 17 (2024), 193–220.
Marseille and the Mediterranean in the Writings of Tahar Ben Jelloun and Yoko Tawada. Angela Fabris, Albert Göschl, Steffen Schneider (eds.): Sea of Literatures. Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter 2023, 249-260.
Contact
kontakt@marilia-joehnk.de