Paula Wojcik is professor for world literature at the University of Vienna. Her PhD project examined the deconstruction of anti-Semitic stereotypes in contemporary Polish, German and American literature (Das Stereotyp als Metapher. Zur Demontage des Antisemitismus in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Bielefeld: Transcript 2013). She completed her habilitation thesis (second book) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2019 (published in 2023 with DeGruyter as Theorie der Klassik. Eine kulturelle Praxis von Goethe bis Grandmaster Flash). Her research interests include literature in Polish, English and German with a focus on Jewish European literatures, intermediality, socialist world literature and world literature & Wikipedia.

Research Project at EXC Temporal Communities:

Interfigurality. Towards a Theory of Characters’ Circulation or a Different Perspective on World Literature and Wikipedia