Luise Prager
Research Training Group 2806/1 – Literature and the public sphere in differentiated contemporary cultures
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Research interests
- Contemporary literatures
- Computational literary studies: stylometric network analysis
- Jewish literatures
Research Projects
Dissertation: “Difference-based Distinctions in the Literary Field. A Mixed-Methods Study of Contemporary German-Language Literature (2010–2025)” (original in German)
Vita
Since 10/2025 | Research assistant and doctoral candidate
Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Different Contemporary Cultures”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
04/2021 – 09/2025 | MA German Studies, specializing in Literary Studies
University of Potsdam
Titel of master‘s thesis: “NovaCor. Analyses of a Corpus of Contemporary Debuts by German-speaking Female Authors Using Mixed Methods” (original in German)
02/2023 | HUJI-FUB Digital Humanities Winter School
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in cooperation with the Free University of Berlin
02/2022 – 09/2024 | Research assistant
Institute for German Studies, Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke, University of Potsdam
11/2019 – 07/2022 | Research assistant
Institute for German Studies/Jewish Studies, Dr. Ulrike Schneider, University of Potsdam
10/2016 – 09/2020 | BA Education, German and Music
University of Potsdam
Title of bachelor‘s thesis: “Spaces and Home in Judith Kerr‘s Novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” (original in German)
Publications
“Narrating Silence: Female Perspectives on the Village in Regina Scheer‘s Novel Machandel”, original in german: „Erzählen vom Schweigen. Weibliche Perspektiven auf das Dorf in dem Roman Machandel von Regina Scheer«, in: Stadt–Land, hg. von Katharina Mohring, Natalie Moser und Ulrike Schneider, Bielefeld: transcript 2025, S. 85–102.