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What are the social, political, economic and media conditions under which literature emerges? And what effects does literature have on its immediate environments? These are the issues addressed by the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures.” It aims to examine contemporary literature since 1945, in different languages and cultural contexts, and with regard to changing and fragmenting public spheres. It is characterized in particular by its praxeological concept of literature, which includes socio-cultural contexts, political frameworks, institutional conditions, the literary world and literary life in its analysis. (spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger, Prof. Dr. Antje Kley)
In the recently published essay collection “Schwarze deutsche Literatur” (edited by Jeannette Oholi), our fellow Laura Sturz and Selma Rezgui have contributed an interview with two central representatives of the black German movement: "Aktivistisch Lesen und Schreiben. Ein Gespräch über Literatur, ...
Antonia Villinger has co-edited the special issue “Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy” with Dr. Sinah Theres Kloß (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn), published in the cultural studies journal Body & Society. The journal examines the public reception and staging of...
A cooperation between the FAU German Studies Master and the WomenEdit group of the Erlangen City Library. The workshop is supported by our PI Annette Gilbert.
“There's so much information, but what I'm looking for is missing!” Have you ever searched for something on Wikipedia and been disappoint...
An essay collection on ‘the posthuman condition’ in contemporary literature and culture has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan with a contribution by our fellow Ruxandra Teodorescu. Her article examines posthuman cognitive ecologies and AI moral agency in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice (2013...
Dr. Julia Wustmann (Dortmund University) will be our guest in the next RKF on June 24, 2025, 14:15-15:45 Uhr (01.053 PSG II, Kochstraße 4). Her lecture is called „Digitale Öffentlichkeit und soziale Ungleichheit: Ein Strukturwandel mit ambivalenten Folgen“.
