Leonardo Petersen Lamha is a PhD candidate in comparative literature and a translator. He studied communication studies and holds a master’s degree in literary studies, with a thesis entitled “Addiction, distance and media in Kafka’s Letters to Milena”. He has published papers on Kafka, German media theory, Friedrich Kittler and Brazilian literature as well as literary essays and criticism in the Brazilian media. As a translator into Portuguese, his publications include Harold Innis’ Empire and Communications and he has translated into English essays by poets of the Brazilian concretism movement, such as Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, both forthcoming. He has been awarded a DAAD Winter Course Scholarship at Leipzig University (2022) and an Erasmus+ Scholarship for doctoral research at the University of Vienna (2023-24). Currently, he is writing his PhD thesis and working on a translation of Kafka’s Letters to Milena into Brazilian Portuguese.

Research Project at EXC Temporal Communities:

The Wish to Become a Sign: Meta-Epistolarity, Postal Literature and Translation in Kafka’s Letters to Milena