Litcult colloquium winter term 2025/2026
This colloquium provides a venue for current research projects in literary studies and cultural studies (including: media studies, American studies, Anglophone studies, medieval and early modern studies) at the English Department. In addition, we also feature a number of guest speakers from other departments of the University of Freiburg as well as external guests from other universities both national and international. The colloquium takes place on Tuesday 4:15 – 5.45 pm, HS 1016!
20.10 | 1 | Prof. Dr. Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) “Complex TV, Continued” With TT-Prof. Dr. Maria Sulimma ! Special Session in Cooperation with the Carl-Schurz-Haus, 19:00-21:00 c.t.
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04.11 | 2 | Dr. Anne Rüggemeier (Freiburg) “Three Readings, One Story: D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Man Who Loved Islands’ and the Problem of (Writing) Literary History”
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11.11 | 3 | Dr. Gopika Gorudas (Freiburg) “Durban and its Legacy: Notes on the Race/Caste Comparison”
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18.11 | 4 | Prof. Dr. Birte Christ (Freiburg “Why Helmut Read Hemingway: American Authors and the Post-War (Re-)Construction of a Broad West German Reading Public”
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25.11 | 5 | Prof. Dr. Mary Flannery (Bern) “In their Native Obscenity: The Canterbury Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Reader”
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09.12 | 6 | Dr. Diana Wagner (Stuttgart) “Contested Reproductions: Early American Textual Negotiations of Medicine, Maternity, and the Female Body”
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16.12 | 7 | Prof. Dr. Sarina Tschachtli (Basel) “Pulling Teeth: Misogyny in Medieval German Short Stories”
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13.01 | 8 | PD Dr. Gero Guttzeit (München/FRIAS) “Critical Aesthetics in the Age of AI”
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20.01 | 9 | Anna Opanasenko, M.A. (Freiburg) “Rewriting the Middle Ages: Feminist Engagements with the Medieval Past in Contemporary Literature”
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27.01 | 10 | Sofia Guimarães, M.A. (Freiburg) “Magic (and) Realism: Memory, Temporality and Post-imperial Identities in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature”
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03.02 | 11 | Prof. Dr. Michael Butter (Tübingen) “Portraits of the Arist as a Professional Athlete: David Foster Wallace’s Essays on Tennis”
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