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Research Training Group 2806/1 – Literature and the public sphere in differentiated contemporary cultures

Address

Universitätsstraße 4091054 Erlangen

Contact

Research Interests

  • Sociology of Literature (particularly Literary Value and Literary Practice)
  • Paratext and Authorship
  • Critical University Studies
  • Decolonial Feminisms
  • Black Studies and Black Ontology
  • Literature and Remembrance
  • Poetry as Resistance

Projects

Dissertation: “Institutional Poetics: Fiction and Poetry Creative Writing Programs as Sites of Power”

Vita

  • since October 2025: research associate and doctoral candidate in the research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (RTG 2806) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • September 2025: M.A. New German Literary (Leibniz University Hannover)
  • March 2025: M.A. North American Studies (Leibniz University Hannover)
  • September 2020: B.A. Interdisciplinary Bachelor in English and German Studies (Leibniz University Hannover)

Presentations

  • “‘The Only Possible Relationship to the University Today is a Criminal One.’ A Reflection on Repressions of Student Activism.” Presentation and Panel Discussion ‘North American Studies in Crisis,’ Leibniz University Hannover, 25. June 2025.
  • “Whiteness as a Structure of Neglect in Academia.” Online-Symposium ‘Care and Neglect in (German) American Studies’ by the Diversity Roundtable of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Zoom, 07. February 2025.
  • “‘Dragon Fruit and Peaches in the Wine.’ Black Noise and the Effability of Afro-Optimism through Music.” Seminar ‘Black Feminist Thought,’ Leibniz University Hannover, 12. June 2024.

Publications

  • Rahmanian Koushkaki, Shayan. “We gon’ be alright:” Critical Fabulation and The Amplification of Black Noise in Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Amerikastudien/ American Studies. Forthcoming.
  • Rahmanian Koushkaki, Shayan, and Theresa Sambruno Spannhoff. “Kanon Und Kanonisierung im Vereinigten Königreich und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.” Projekt: Kanon, edited by Nils Gelker and Manuel Zink, Wehrhahn, 2021, pp. 97–116.

Teaching

  • Seminar “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” — Poems of Resistance, Survival, and Suffering (Leibniz University Hannover, winter 2025)

Memberships and Networks

  • Member of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA)
  • Member of the Poetry Network of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
  • Organizational member of the Decolonial Feminisms Reading Group (DFRG)