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.

 

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”

 

11.11

3

Dr. Gopika Gorudas (Freiburg)

“Durban and its Legacy: Notes on the Race/Caste Comparison”

 

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”

 

25.11

5

Prof. Dr. Mary Flannery (Bern)

“In their Native Obscenity: The Canterbury Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Reader”

 

09.12

6

Dr. Diana Wagner (Stuttgart)

“Contested Reproductions: Early American Textual Negotiations of Medicine, Maternity, and the Female Body”

 

16.12

7

Prof. Dr. Sarina Tschachtli (Basel)

“Pulling Teeth: Misogyny in Medieval German Short Stories”

 

13.01

8

PD Dr. Gero Guttzeit (München/FRIAS)

“Critical Aesthetics in the Age of AI”

 

20.01

9

Anna Opanasenko, M.A. (Freiburg)

“Rewriting the Middle Ages: Feminist Engagements with the Medieval Past in Contemporary Literature”

 

27.01

10

Sofia Guimarães, M.A. (Freiburg)

“Magic (and) Realism: Memory, Temporality and Post-imperial Identities in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature”

 

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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