Niklas Bender

Niklas Bender, born in 1976 in Braunschweig, Germany, was an adjunct professor of French and Italian literature at the University of Tübingen and served as a substitute for several professorships. His works include *Kampf der Paradigmen. Die Literatur zwischen Geschichte, Biologie und Medizin (Flaubert, Zola, Fontane)* (2009), *Die lachende Kunst. Der Beitrag des Komischen zur klassischen Moderne* (2017), and *Verpasste und erfasste Möglichkeiten. Lesen als Lebenskunst* (2018). He also worked as a literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.