Steffen Schneider studied German and Romance languages and literature in Cologne and Genoa. He passed his first state examination in Cologne in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, he was a scholarship holder at the graduate college Pragmatization/Depragmatization - Literature in the field of tension between its autonomous and heteronomous determinations at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. He completed his doctorate in 2003 with the thesis Archivpoetik - Die Funktion des Wissens in Goethes 'Faust II'. 2004-2011 research assistant at the Romance Department in Tübingen, 2011-2014 academic advisor there. From 2004-2008 editor of the lexicon Mythenrezeption. In 2009 he received a DFG research fellowship and spent a year at the Istituto lessico intellettuale europeo of the Centro nazionale di ricerca in Rome in 2009-2010. 2009-2012 he headed the scientific network (DFG) Aisthetik der Geister - Die Rezeption der Spirituslehren in den Künsten und der Populärkultur der Frühen Neuzeit. Habilitation 2011 in Tübingen with the work Kosmos - Seele - Text. Forms of participation and their literary mediation. Marsilio Ficino, Pierre de Ronsard, Giordano Bruno, published by Universitätsverlag Winter in 2012. He received the Elise Richter Prize of the German Romance Writers' Association for this work in 2013. 2014-2017 Deputy Professor of Romance Literary Studies (W3) at the University of Trier. 2016 Appointed Professor of Romance Literary and Cultural Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz. Professor in Graz since March 1, 2017.