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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 in different languages and cultural contexts since 1945 with regard to changing and fragmenting public spheres. It is characterised 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. (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, speakers: Prof. Dr. Dirk Niefanger, Prof. Dr. Antje Kley)
The second workshop organized as part of the DFG-funded research network “Energy and Literature: Texts, Theories and Methods from a Comparative and Cultural Studies Perspective” will examine the connections between gender issues and social inequalities in literary representations of energy product...
Prof. Barry Murnane (Oxford University) will be our guest in the next RKF, 12th November 2024, 2:00-3:30 p.m. (00.5 PSG III, Kochstr. 6a). His lecture is called: »Ausstellung von Literatur anlässlich der Kafka-Ausstellung an der Bodleian Library, Oxford University«.
The collected volume Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany: Radical Diversity and Literary Interventions was co-edited by Laura Marie Sturtz, a fellow of the Research Training Group »Literature and the Public Sphere«, together with Selma Rezgui and Tara Talwar Windsor, and was recently publis...
The GRK has two new coordinators: Ulrike Dencovski (50%) and Dr. Birgit Umbreit (50%) joined 2024, October 15th. They provide organizational and coordinating support to all members of the GRK. Ulrike Dencovski studied English literary and cultural studies, German linguistics and Ethics of Textual Cu...
The DFG has approved a scientific network on the topic of “The knowledge of digital literature”. The applicant is Prof. Dr. Annette Gilbert.
Digital literature – literature that is, in a nontrivial way, produced with computers – has seen a considerable upswing in recent years; contributing fa...
