Konstanze Baron

Konstanze Baron studied Modern History and Modern Languages (French) at the Queen’s College, Oxford University (BA 2000, MSt 2001) and at Université Denis Diderot Paris VII (DEA 2002) before moving on to Konstanz, where she obtained her PhD in 2010 after having qualified in the DFG-Graduate Program “Figuren des Dritten / Figures of the Third” and having collaborated at the Center of Excellence “Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration / Cultural Foundations of Integration.” From 2009-2015 she was a full time research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) in Halle. Her book on Denis Diderot, exploring features of literary anthropology in the genre of the “character tale,” was published in 2014 with Wilhelm Fink Verlag. In June 2015, Konstanze Baron took up a position as assistant professor (Akademische Rätin) at the Romance Literature and Languages Department at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.