Managing Director FELICITAS LOEST
Contact
Tel.: +49 6221 54-15901
felicitas.loest@capas.uni-heidelberg.de
After growing up in a small city in the Atacama desert, Felicitas Loest studied German and Spanish (with a focus on literature and cultural studies), as well as European Art History at Heidelberg University and at King’s College London.
She has been working at Heidelberg University since 2017; mainly teaching at the Department for Romance Studies and coordinating projects for international academic exchange. In this context, Felicitas coordinated the application process for the Käte Hamburger Centre and assumed the role of managing director after its approval. In addition to her work at CAPAS, Felicitas is writing a PhD Thesis on topoi of the sublime in descriptions of Latin American landscapes. For her research project, she received two scholarships in 2020: a BWS-plus research fellowship at the University of Chile, and a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship at Yale University, which unfortunately had to be postponed because of the pandemic. Her research interests concern conceptions of identity and the subject in relation to space as landscape or territory, influenced by de- and post-colonial theory, as well as gender studies perspectives.
Publications
2026 (Forthcoming)
- Loest, Felicitas und Alejandra Bottinelli (Hg.). Ruptures. Berlin: De Gruyter. (publication in 2026)
- Loest, Felicitas und Anne Brüske: „Menschenrechte in Lateinamerika.“ In: Politische Theorie: Lateinamerika, hg. von Alfonso Gomez Arciniega und Fernando Nina, Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag. (publication in 2026)
2025
- Álvarez Arenas, Ignacio Javier, Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest und Horst Nitschack. „América Latina: espacios históricos e imaginarios.“ In: América Latina: espacios históricos e imaginarios, hg. von Ignacio Javier Álvarez Arenas, Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest und Horst Nitschack, Santiago de Chile: LOM. (publication in 2025)
- Loest, Felicitas. „Paisaje y nación: Naturalización y subversión en ‚En el teocalli de Cholula‘.“ In: América Latina: espacios históricos e imaginarios, hg. von Ignacio Javier Álvarez Arenas, Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest und Horst Nitschack, Santiago de Chile: LOM. (publication in 2025)
2022
- Stümer, Jenny and Felicitas Loest. „The Apocalyptic Word.“ Apocalyptica 1, Nr. 1, 2022, S. 4–18.