“Poe in the Maelstrom of Nineteenth-Century Science” panels, Boston April 7-10, 2022

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A series of four panels I’ve co-organized with Dana Medoro, Sean Moreland, Cristina Pérez, and John Tresch on “Poe in the Maelstrom of Nineteenth-Century Science” has been accepted for inclusion in the programme of the 5th International Edgar Allan Poe Conference sponsored by the Poe Studies Association. The conference will be held at Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, April 7-10, 2022.

I’ll be giving a paper on „Monstrous Vision: Poe and the Optical Culture of Monstrosity“ and chairing the session on „Vortices of Aesthetic Judgement.“ Hopefully, the pandemic situation will allow the conference to go forward as planned – especially, since it’s already been postponed for a year!

New article on Mat Johnson’s Pym

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A new article of mine on Mat Johnson’s novel Pym, Poe, and the generic traditions of adventure fiction has just been published in a special issue of REAL on The Pleasures of Peril, edited by Tobias Döring and Martina Kübler:

„Re-Visioning Race: Mat Johnson’s Pym, Poe, and the Allegories of Adventure.“ REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. 37.1 (2021). 215–233 10.24053/REAL-2021-0010

The Literature of Invisibility at CAS_LMU

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I will spend the winter term 2021/22 as Junior Researcher in Residence at LMU Munich’s Center for Advanced Studies, working on my second book project on invisible literary characters and organising a workshop on The Literature of Invisibility.

Das kommende Wintersemester 2021/22 werde ich als Junior Researcher in Residence am Center for Advanced Studies der LMU München verbringen, dabei an meinem Habilitationsprojekt zu unsichtbaren literarischen Figuren arbeiten und einen Workshop zum Thema Die Literatur der Unsichtbarkeit veranstalten.