Marie Guthmüller has been a professor of Romance literatures, specialising in French-language literatures, at Humboldt University since 2019. Prior to her appointment in Berlin, she conducted research and taught at the University of Tübingen, Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Osnabrück, and the The Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL Berlin). She has led several projects funded by the DFG and launched the Franco-German doctoral programme “Littérature et savoirs/Literatur und Wissen” in 2023. As a scholar of Romance studies, she works on French, francophone, and Italian literature from the seventeenth century onward. Her research is situated within the field of literature and science studies, with particular emphasis on the reciprocal relationships between literature and the psychological sciences. Her work includes investigations into the boundaries and interactions between literary criticism and psychophysiology, and into literature and dreams, hagiography and knowledge of the soul, and autobiographical writing. She also conducted research for many years on Belgian colonial literature and francophone literature from Congo.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “Qu’est-ce qui c’est passé dans les bois? Gewalt im Wald bei Bolya Baenga, Sony Labou Tansi und Jean Bofane”. In Romanistisch, politisch? Potenziale für die Gegenwartsanalyse, edited by José Manuel Blanco Mayor, Julia Dettke, and Joris Lehnert. transcript, 2025.
- “Zur Darstellung und Begründung von Gewalt in Jean Bofanes pikareskem Roman Congo Inc.: Le testament de Bismarck (2014)”. In Transkulturationen des Pikaresken in den romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas und Lateinamerikas, edited by Susanne Goumegou, Agnieszka Komorowska, and Sebastian Thies. Winter, 2025.
- “Das ethnographische Interesse am Traum: Von Carlo Levi zu Ernesto de Martino”. In Das nächtliche Wir: Traumwissen und Traumkunst nach dem Jahrhundert der Psychologie, edited by Marie Guthmüller et al. Wallstein, 2024.
- Jenseits von Freud? Der Traum in der italienischen Moderne: Luigi Capuana, Federigo Tozzi, Italo Svevo. Harrassowitz, 2021.
- “Zwischen Psychopathologie und Mystik: Erfahrungen der Desynchronisierung bei Pierre Janet, Federigo Tozzi und William James”. Psychopathologie der Zeit: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1 (2021): 119–132.
- “Structures de violence – Cannibale de Bolya Baenga analysé à partir de Heart of Darkness de Joseph Conrad et Des mille collines aux neuf volcans de Marie Gevers”. In Nouvelles tendances du conté et du narré en langue française en Afrique de l’Ouest, edited by Anne Begenat-Neuschäfer and Jean-Marie Kouakou. Lang, 2011.
