Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, and professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture at Europa-Universität Flensburg. Among his monographs are “La reterritorialización de lo humano. Una teoría de las vanguardias americanas” (Pittsburgh, 2013) and “Churata y la vanguardia andina” (Lima, 2014).