Arvi Sepp studied German and English Philology, Sociology, and Literary Theory in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Berlin and Gießen. He is currently Professor in German Literature and Culture at the University of Antwerp and in Translation Studies and German at the Free University of Brussels (VUB).

Sepp, Arvi (Recipient), 2017 Prize : National/international honour Jaarprijs voor Wetenschapscommunicatie van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschap en Kunsten (Brussel, België)

Jan 10, 2014 · Arvi Sepp is a specialist in the culture-historical analysis of the connections between literature and ideology in religious and linguistic minorities as well as in artistic subcultures. His work focuses on 20th-century German-Jewish literature in the context of the Holocaust and the reception of Jewish thought.

He is a professor of German literature and translation studies at the Free University of Brussels. His research mainly focuses on the translation of heteroglossia in migration literature and trauma in Holocaust literature. Other research interests concern the relationship between ideology and aesthetics in German literature.

In recent years, they have studied various modalities of literary translation from different language areas in different literary periods.

Arvi Sepp studied German and English Philology, Sociology, and Literary Theory in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Berlin and Gießen. He is Professor of Translation Studies and German at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Research Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Antwerp.

Robert Schopflocher's self-translation in Argentinian exile: reflections on German-Jewish cultural memory and collective identity. Translating memories of violent pasts: memory studies and translation studies in dialogue / Jünke, Claudia [edit.]; et al. [edit.]-p. 107-127.

Oct 1, 2013 · Arvi Sepp is gespecialiseerd in de cultuurhistorische analyse van de relatie tussen literatuur en ideologie in de teksten van culturele en linguïstische minderheden en van artistieke subculturen. Zijn werk richt zich op de Duits-joodse literatuur van de 20ste eeuw in de context van de Holocaust en de receptie van joods gedachtegoed.

Arvi Sepp studied German and English Philology, Sociology, and Literary Theory in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve and Berlin. He currently serves as Lecturer in German.