Ronald Daus

Who is Ronald Daus?

Ronald Daus is a German university Professor of Romance philology and cultural studies at the Free University of Berlin involved in multi-disciplinary studies.

Daus researches in the field of study "Neue Romania" for over 40 years, with the focus on the contacts between European and extra-European cultures. He was a visiting professor in Mexico City for two years, at Colégio de Mexico, and for one year in Singapore, at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, in Manila, at the University of the Philippines, and also in Tahiti, at the Université du Pacifique. Many research trips and lecture tours brought him to Europe, Russia, Latin America, Middle America, USA, Canada, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania.

He is a member of the Research Group New Romania, who investigate the «products resulting from the contacts of the Romanic cultures that expanded across the seas for colonialism, featuring, together with other nations, new linguistic varieties and cultures». The languages involving such contacts belong to these groups: Lusophonie, in Brazil and Africa, Hispanophonie, mainly in Latin America and USA, Francophonie, in twenty two African countries, Caribbean, Canada and Latin America.