We are happy and proud to accompany our new PhD cohort as they embark on doctoral journeys that will challenge and expand the boundaries of literary scholarship. Under the cooperation agreement in support of early-career researchers between the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (FSGS) and EXC 2020, all candidates are affiliated with both the FSGS and the Cluster.

Ranging from antiquity to the present and from poetry to theatre novels, the dissertation projects question the canon, invert perspectives and investigate the very conditions of fictionality itself.

We eagerly await the insights that will emerge, and wish all candidates every success as they shape the future(s) of doing literature!

  

Follow the links below to learn more about the candidates and their projects:

RA = Research Area

Errol Boon (RA 3: Future Perfect) | Artistic Truth: Theories of Non-Discursive Truth in Critical Dialectics and Phenomenological Hermeneutics

Christin Krüger (RA 4: Literary Currencies) | Prose of the Theatre: On the Boom of Theatre Novels in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Charlotte Johanna Rauth (RA 4: Literary Currencies) | On Fiction's Ability to Respond: Poetics of Responsibility in Contemporary German and English Literature

Ansgar Riedißer (RA 4: Literary Currencies) | The Discourse of Incomprehensibility in and Around John Ashbery's Work

Lilith Tiefenbacher (RA 4: Literary Currencies) | Homer Revisited – Antiquity and the Present in Oswald, Carson and Köhler 

Fanny Helena Wehner (RA 1: Competing Communities) | Re-Presenting Pushkin, Challenging the Canon – An Afropean Poet at the 'Borders of Europe'