Adrián Herrera (Monterrey, Mexico) studied Hispanic Language and Literature with an accentuation on Latin American Studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey (México). Afterwards he earned a M.A. degree in Literary Theory and Discourse Studies at the same university. In 2008 he moved to Germany where he started teaching at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Bonn. From 2010 he works at the University of Cologne, where he teaches Comparative Grammar, Spanish Language and Latin American and Comparative Literature at the Department of Romance Languages. He wrote an interdisciplinary Ph. D. Dissertation on German Travelogues about Mexico from the National Socialist period, which he submitted in November 2013 at the University of Cologne. In the current semester (Winter 13/14) he is teaching and researching on the interaction of urban space and human bodies, and its effect on individual and collective identities in American cities such as Buenos Aires, Juárez and Los Angeles, based on the analysis of films and literary texts.

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