Sébastian

Thiltges

Sébastian Thiltges is a doctor of comparative literature and postdoc at the University of Luxembourg, where his research focuses on the didactics of Luxembourg literature.

After his dissertation on the novelistic description of silent landscapes (2013), he dedicated himself to ecocriticism and cultural ecology in two postdoctoral projects: a first one at the Université du Mans (France) on ecology in children’s and youth literature, then a second one at the Universität des Saarlandes (Germany) on nature and environment in Luxembourg literature.

During the academic year 2017/2018, he was a lecturer at the Université de Lorraine (France).
As part of this research, he publishes several papers and co-directs the books "Eco-graphies: écologie et littératures pour la jeunesse" (Presses universitaires de Rennes 2018), and "Kulturökologie und ökologische Kulturen in der Großregion" (Peter Lang 2020).

Research interests

Comparative Literature

Luxembourg Literature

Ecocriticism

Cultural Ecology

Didactics of Literature

Children's Literature

Youth Literature

Literature and Health

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TOPAS@home – It smells, therefore you and I are

Working with theoretical texts is just as important for most scholars as personal exchange. The TOPAS reading and discussion forum shows how both can be successfully combined in times of remote work, and that this setup can even reveal something fundamental about the human relationship to the world