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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...

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 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...

Exhibition from May 3 - September 15, 2024, Villa Stuck in Munich. Annette Gilbert opens the exhibition »Library of Artistic Print on Demand« on May 4, 2024 with a speech and a guided tour. The »Library of Artistic Print on Demand« is the result of a DFG research project (2019-2022) by GRK mem...

We were very saddened to be informed today of the sudden death of our coordinator Dr. Jochen Venus. The thoughts of the members of the Kolleg are with Jochen's wife and family. Jochen Venus was an important contact person for all the members of our Kolleg. As a media scholar who researched and ta...

International Conference “Digitality and the Public Sphere: Literature, Mediality, Practice” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09. - 02.10.2024 Extended deadline: February 18, 2024 About the Conference At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformat...