Paul Gross

Paul Gross is an assistant professor of German at the University of Madeira, a member of the Transdisciplinary Research Center for Culture, Space, and Memory (CITCEM), and a local lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He received a BA in English and German from the University of Malta and a double MA in German Studies from the Universities of Bremen and Porto. For his PhD in Literary, Cultural, and Interart Studies from the University of Porto, he conducted research at the FU Berlin and at the University of Palermo and wrote a dissertation on the narration of time in a 15th century German world chronicle. Subsequently, he worked as a lecturer in Porto and as an editor in Berlin. His research interests include early modern German literature, concepts of time and space in text and image, and short fiction.