Steffen Dix

Steffen Dix attended the University of Tübingen, the Portuguese Catholic University and Freie Universität Berlin. From 2005 until 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon. Since early 2013, he has been a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture of the Portuguese Catholic University. From 2015 until 2019, he was invited assistant professor at the Faculty for Theology at the Catholic University in Lisbon. Since 2019, he has been the coordinator for the Research Group “Religion, Globalization and Local Dynamics” at the Research Centre for Global Studies at the Universidade Aberta (UAb) in Lisbon. Currently, he is assistant professor and course coordinator for European Studies at the UAb. He has published or edited several books, special issues, book chapters and articles in international scientific journals. His research interest are religious history and secularization in Europe and European modernism. More recently, he published “Fernando Pessoa: Ein Maximum an Vielfalt im Minimum einer einzigen Person.” (Lettre International 141), “On the labyrinthine Reality of empty squares (or Nietzsche’s Stimmung in Turin).” (Electra 19), “Vom bleibenden Recht der Antike in der künstlerischen Moderne Europas: Fernando Pessoa und Giorgio de Chirico.” (Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 74/3).