Organised by Rebecca Hardie (Articulations) and Viktor J. Illmer (Research Area 5: "Building Digital Communities").

This Cluster Jour Fixe is designed to support preparations for the upcoming panel session, New Voices, Next Turns: Emerging Futures in Literary Research, taking place on 10 July 2025 as part of the EXC 2020 Annual Conference 2025 "Futures of Doing Literature".

This panel will feature fifteen presentations by early career researchers, each offering a brief, lightning talk. Together, these talks will explore the question: What futures can we imagine for literature – and for the ways we practice literary research – when we begin from the margins, the footnotes, the postscripts, or even the digital comment threads? The session brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work opens up innovative perspectives on storytelling, temporality, and literary practice.

Together, the talks will reflect on how literature can envision alternative futures, unsettle inherited hierarchies, and offer new ways of thinking through our intertwined ecological and political realities. The session aims to create a space for experimentation and critical curiosity – one in which early career researchers can illuminate how literary research might itself become a practice of future-making.

The Jour Fixe offers all participants a valuable opportunity to rehearse their short talks, engage with one another's work, and address both technical and conceptual questions in preparation for the panel.

Participants:

Julius Böhm (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Critique, Commodification, Re-Appropriation: Circulations of the Theory Book Since 1967

Melina Brüggemann (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | After the Crisis of Representation: (Im-)Possibilities of Writing for Others in the 21st Century

Carla Dalbeck (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | (Trans)formation of National Poets: Transcultural and Transtemporal Dimensions of National Literary Value

Dhritii Dutta (University of Hyderabad/EXC 2020 Fellow 2025) | Internet Humour, Social Media, OTT Mediation and an Emancipated Spectatorship

Chiara Liso (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | The (M)other Tongues of Contemporary Post-German Poetry

Nicolas Longinotti (Freie Universität Berlin) | Translation, Moralisation and Female Agency in the Parnaso antártico: Ovid in the Spanish Colonisation

Pedro Mora Madriñán (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Critical Theory on the Periphery of Capitalism: Literary Form and Contradictions of Progress in the Work of Roberto Schwarz

Omid Mashhadi (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Amateur Performance and the Aesthetics of Bareness

Sulthana Nasrin (Jawaharlal Nehru University/EXC 2020 Fellow 2025) | Between Literate and Literary: Transnational Print Networks and Reading Aloud Practices

Elena Patrika (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Textbooks of Ancient Greek Grammar at the Time of the Modern Greek Enlightenment: The Medium and its Technologies

Ananya Punyatoya (Jawaharlal Nehru University/EXC 2020 Fellow 2025) | From Canon to Commons: Global Community Narratives and Shared Sickness in the Digital Realm

Nathalie Rennhack (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Publication and Media Politics in Early American Women's Writing

Anton Terhechte (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | On and Off the Shelves: Printed Islam in the Reform-Era People's Republic

Laura Untner (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Paradigms of Digital Reception Studies: Productive Literary Reception Testimonies as Linked Data Using the Example of the German-Language Literary Reception of Sappho

Victoria Wirtz (EXC 2020/Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies) | Dismantling the Status Quo from Within: Prizeworthiness and Queer Working-Class Kinship