Thomas Mohnike

He is co-editor (together with Thomas Beaufils) of the journal Deshima : Revue d'histoire globale des Pays du Nord (since 2009), the publication series Globalizing Fiction (together with Charlotte Krauss and Urs Urban) at Lit Verlag (since 2012) and (together with Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur) of the publication series Samica at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (since 2014). Since 2013 he has been the founding president of the Association pour les études nordiques, the French professional association for Northern European Studies.

In 2008 he became head of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Strasbourg, where he was appointed Professor in 2017. His main field of research within Scandinavian literary and cultural studies are the history of the field's research, Scandinavian identity history and imaginary geography. He did also research on contemporary Swedish literature and baroque literature.

Mohnike also works as a translator from Swedish and writes contributions for popular science blogs and magazines. Together with Heide Henschel, he published a children's book at Kookbooks in 2004. He is also the author of a brochure explaining the Ullrich-Turner syndrome.

Mohnike worked as a research assistant at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (2001-2007) and the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Strasbourg (2007-2008). As visiting researcher he stayed at the University of Copenhagen (2004), University of Gothenburg (2013) and the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin (2016-2017).

Born in East Berlin, Thomas Mohnike grew up in Magdeburg where he completed his high school education with the Abitur. Starting 1993 he studied art history, Germanic studies, Scandinavian studies and Cultural studies in Charleston, Kiel, Uppsala and Berlin. In 2001, he completed his Master's Degree at the Nordeuropa-Institut of the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis Leerstellen barocker Repräsentation. Der Paratext in den Ausgaben von Georg Stiernhielms Hercules und sein Einfluss auf die Interpretation. In 2006, he defended his doctoral thesis Imaginierte Geographien. Der schwedische Reisebericht der 1980er und 1990er Jahre und das Ende des kalten Krieges at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 2015 he obtained his habilitation with his thesis Identités narratives & géographies d'appartenance. Eléments pour une théorie des formes narratives de savoir social en circulation culturelle.

Thomas Mohnike (born 9 August 1974) is a specialist in Literature and Cultural Studies and Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Strasbourg.