Laura Sturtz

Projects

Dissertation: Literary Interventions from Postmigrant Counter-Publics

Education & Employment

• Since 04/2023: Research Associate at the DFG Research Training Group 2806 Literature and the Public Sphere in Different Contemporary Cultures
• 01/2025–04/2025: Visiting Researcher at the German Department, Columbia University in the City of New York (Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Breger)
• 2018–2022: M.A. in European Literatures and Cultures, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
• 2020–2021: Master of Studies in Modern Languages (German), University of Oxford
• 2013–2017: B.A. in European Literary and Cultural Studies (Language, Literature, Culture), University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
  (Focus: 20th- and 21st-century German- and Spanish-language literatures)
• 2015–2016: Semester abroad, Hispanic Studies, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid)

Publications

Edited Volume

Edited with Selma Rezgui and Tara Talwar Windsor: Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture 244. Camden House, 2024.

Book Chapters

“Aktivistisch Lesen und Schreiben: Ein Gespräch über Literatur, Aktivismus und Archiv mit Nouria N. Asfaha und Sharon Dodua Otoo“. In Schwarze deutsche Literatur: Ästhetische und aktivistische Interventionen von den 1980er Jahren bis heute, 1st ed., vol. 4, edited by Jeannette Oholi. Postcolonial Writings. Transcript Verlag, 2025. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470756. (With Selma Rezgui)

“Twin Novels: Re-Negotiating Self and Other in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Außer Sich and Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst.” In Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions, edited by Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture 244. Camden House, 2024.

“Introduction.” In Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions, edited by Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture 244. Camden House, 2024. (With Selma Rezgui and Tara Talwar Windsor)

“Acting from Within: Inclusive Literature and the Power of Writing. A Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann.” In Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions, edited by Selma Rezgui, Laura Marie Sturtz, and Tara Talwar Windsor. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture 244. Camden House, 2024. (With Selma Rezgui)

Workshops, Lectures, and Papers

Conference Papers 

• 07/2025: “Etwas erinnert sich: Temporale Strukturen und literarische Interventionsstrategien“, Doctoral Summer School Schreibweisen der Gegenwart: Zeitdarstellung und Zeitreflexion in der Gegenwartsliteratur, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
• 12/2024: “Radical Diversity & Cultural Production in Contemporary Germany: New Publications in German Studies and Ways Forward,” Roundtable Discussion and Book Launch, University of Cambridge
• 11/2024: “Literary Interventions: Aesthetic Practices and the Public Sphere,” Doctoral Conference of DAAD-funded Centres for German and European Studies: International Interventions and the State of the Field, University of Cambridge
• 03/2024: “Diskursinterventionistische Allianzen als postmigrantische Positionierung zwischen Literatur und Öffentlichkeit“, Workshop Zusammen/Schreiben. Literatursoziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf literarische Gruppen nach 1945, Literaturarchiv Sulzbach-Rosenberg / Literaturhaus Oberpfalz
• 07/2023: “Literarische Interventionsstrategien im postmigrantischen Schreiben der Gegenwart“, Research Colloquium in Modern German Literature, Kloster Waldsassen
• 09/2022: “’Wo ist Dein Platz?‘ Zugehörigkeiten-Erschreiben in Wenzel 1000 Serpentinen Angst & Salzmann Außer Sich“, Germanistentag 2022, Paderborn
• 07/2021: “‘Mutter, Vater, Kind, Kind’: Re-writing Family & Belonging in Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s Außer Sich,” Sichtbarkeiten Conference, University of Oxford
• 05/2021: “‘Jeder hat jemanden hier.’ Deterritorializing Memory in Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther,” Archives and Utopia (Oxford German Graduate Seminar), University of Oxford
• 08/2018: “’Que mi nombre no se borre en la historia‘: Weibliches Erinnern und Erzählen des spanischen Bürgerkriegs in Dulce Chacóns La voz dormida“, Race, Class, Gender Revisited: Literaturwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft, University of Duisburg-Essen

Conference and Workshop Organization

• 09/2024: Seminar Co-Director, "Politisch schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Methodische und theoretische Annäherungen,” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta (three-day seminar with Jeannette Oholi and Alrik Daldrup)
• 07/2021: Sichtbarkeiten Conference, University of Oxford (with Selma Rezgui)

Teaching

• Summer Term 2025: Literary Interventions: Postmigrant, Antiracist, Intersectional
• Summer Term 2024: Poetics Colloquium with Katharina Mevissen
  (co-taught with Prof. Dr. Sandra Fluhrer and Prof. Dr. Annette Gilbert)

Awards and Fellowships

• 2024: German Studies Association Conference Community Fund (CCF) Award for participation in the GSA Conference 2024
• 2024: DAAD Grant for participation in the Doctoral Conference of DAAD-funded Centres for German and European Studies: International Interventions and the State of the Field
• 2022: Grant for the participation, Society for German Studies in Higher Education (GfH), German Germanists’ Association (Germanistentag 2022) 
• 2015–2021: Max Weber Program Bavaria Scholarship
• 2016–2022: German National Academic Foundation Scholarship (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Additional Activities

• Moderation of literary readings, including events with Fatma Aydemir, Bettina Wilpert, Zsófia Bán, and Maren Kames
• Organization of literary readings and reading series