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Hans Christian Hagedorn
Professor of comparative literature, book critic, jazz lover and avid reader of (almost) everything written about jazz
About Me
Hans Christian Hagedorn is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Born in Bremen (Germany), he studied at the Universities of Hamburg, Münster and Madrid. His main research interests are in German, Spanish and Western literature from the 17th to the 21st centuries. He is the author of La traducción narrada: El recurso narrativo de la traducción ficticia (2006), and editor of five collective volumes on the reception of Miguel de Cervantes’ masterwork: Don Quijote por tierras extranjeras (2007), Don Quijote, cosmopolita (2009), Don Quijote en su periplo universal (2011), Don Quijote en los cinco continentes (2016) and Nuevas perspectivas cervantinas (2021). He has published on authors such as Cervantes, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Wilhelm Hauff and Thomas Mann, and on the reception history of Don Quixote, especially the reception of Cervantes’ novel in jazz. One of his main efforts in this field is the study “Don Quixote's Adventures in the World of Jazz: 200 Examples and a Few Remarks” (2022). As a literary critic, he has written on Yukio Mishima, Rómulo Gallegos, Julio Cortázar, Juan Carlos Onetti, Xavier Orville, Hans Christoph Buch and Juan Bravo Castillo, among others. He has also been a visiting professor at Humboldt University of Berlin (2004- 2005).
