Eyk Akansu

Eyk Akansu

Department of English and American Studies
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)

Universitätsstraße 40
91054 Erlangen

Research Projects

Dissertation Project: Publicity of Poetry in the GDR. The Series Poesiealbum (1967 to 1989/90)

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Literature
  • History of Publishing and the Book (Trade)
  • Censorship (Histories)
  • East German Literature/Literature in the GDR
  • Digital Humanities

 

Publications and Presentations

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1352-4976

ResearchGate

Book and Journal Contributions

Editorships

Lectures, Conference and Workshop contributions

  • Druckgenehmigungsgutachten. Korpus und Desiderat der Erforschung von Zensur in der DDR [upgraded]. Presentation on 26.9.2023 as part of the CRETA (Center for Reflective Text Analysis) workshop from 26 to 27 September 2023 in Cologne
  • Die Druckgenehmigung der Lyrikreihe Poesiealbum am Beispiel ihrer Sonderhefte zu den Poetenseminaren (1971-1989). Presentation on 29.3.2023 as part of the workshop “Lyrik und Jugend in der DDR” from 29 to 30 March 2023 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Publizität von Lyrik in der DDR. Das Poesiealbum im Spiegel seiner Druckgenehmigungsgutachten. Presentation as part of the Medienhistorisches Forum on 11.11.2022
  • Time is (not {only}) Money. Bourdieu’s Contribution to the Discussion about Basic Income. Presentation on 10.10.2022 as part of the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) Annual Conference 2022 from 10 to 12 October 2022
  • Druckgenehmigungsgutachten. Korpus und Desiderat der Erforschung von Zensur in der DDR. Presentation on 27.4.2022 as part of the symposium “Erkenntnisperspektiven und Methoden der Kommunikations- und Mediengeschichte: Anwendungsfelder, Herausforderungen, Innovationen, Praxis” from 27 to 28 April 2022 at the Institute for Newspaper Research Dortmund
  • Lebenslanges Lernen als Teil von Sozialpolitik. Presentation on 20.7.2021 as part of the Peer-Workshop “Transdisziplinarität in der Bildungsforschung” from 19 to 20 July 2021 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Keine Einwände. Das Druckgenehmigungsverfahren und die Begutachtung von Lyrik in der frühen DDR. Presentation as part of the workshop “Archive, Daten, Netzwerke. Methoden zur Erforschung historischer Produktionskulturen” on 10.7.2020 at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg
  • Lyrik in Reih´ (und Glied?). Presentation on 25.9.2019 as part of the conference “Die Argusaugen der Zensur. Eine Geheimgeschichte der DDR-Literatur” from 24 to 26 September 2019 at the University of Leipzig
  • Antwortet uns! Prototyp für das Verlegen von Lyrik in der DDR. Presentation on 12.8.2011 as part of the conference “Das Loch in der Mauer reloaded. Neues zum innderdeutschen Literaturaustausch” from 12 to 13 August 2011 at the University of Leipzig

Teaching

from October 2008 to March 2018

  • at the University of Leipzig in the Departments of Cultural Sociology and Book Studies
  • at the University of Erfurt as part of the Fundamental Studies programme

Scholarships

  • Horst Kliemann Foundation for the History of Books
  • Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany
  • German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Education & Employment

  • since 11/2022: Research Associate in the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” (GRK 2806)
  • 06/2019 – 10/2022: Research Associate for knowledge transfer at the Transferagentur Mitteldeutschland für Kommunales Bildungsmanagement at the German Youth Institute (DJI), Halle (Saale)
  • 06/2018 – 05/2019: Research Associate for networks and relationship management as part of the project HSA_transfer at the Institute for Technology and Knowledge Transfer at the Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences
  • 03/2016 – 03/2018: Project Manager “Research School” as part of the staff unit university development as well as Research Associate at the at the professorship for the History and Cultures of Spaces in the Modern Age, University of Erfurt
  • 12/2012 – 07/2014: Management Assistent at the Medienforen Leipzig GmbH
  • since 01/2012: independent Publisher of the ed[ition]. cetera as well as Editor (among others for Ernst Klett Verlag, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig)
  • 01/2011 – 06/2013: Project Manager at the Literaturwerkstatt (now: Haus für Poesie) Berlin for the internationales poesiefestival berlin
  • 11/2008 – 10/2009: Freelance Collaborator for the literary agency Partner+Propaganda, Leipzig
  • 04 – 12/2008: Research Associate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department for Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig
  • Degree in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig

Memberships