Dr. Bernhard Stricker

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    1. News
    2. Academic Career
    3. Research Interests
    4. Publications and Lectures
      1. Monographs
      2. Editors
      3. Essays
      4. Lectures
      5. Translations
      6. Online Publications
      7. Reviews
      8. Organization of Conferences and Workshops
      9. FIS-Box Publications
      10. FIS-Box Research
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Dr. Bernhard Stricker

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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Wednesday:
13:30 - 14:30

Except during semester breaks. All information and registrations can be found on OPAL in the corresponding cross-semester folder.

News

Book cover: Bernhard Stricker / Silvia Schneider / Günter Gödde (eds.): Togetherness: On the Art of Living Together in Couple Relationships, J.B. Metzler 2026. © J.B. Metzler

NEW RELEASE (September 2026): Togetherness: On the Art of Living Together in Couple Relationships. Edited by Bernhard Stricker, Silvia Schneider, and Günter Gödde. Berlin/Heidelberg: Metzler 2026.

 
Book cover: Kevin Drews and Bernhard Stricker (eds.): Calendars and Short Forms: Cultural Studies Contextualizations of Johann Peter Hebel’s Calendar Texts, Göttingen, Wallstein 2026, OPEN ACCESS. © Wallstein

NEW RELEASE: Calendars and Short Forms. Cultural Studies Contextualizations of Johann Peter Hebel’s Calendar Texts, edited by Kevin Drews and Bernhard Stricker. Göttingen: Wallstein 2026, OPEN ACCESS https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835362048-kalender-und-kleine-form.html.

 
Cover des Buches " Wittgenstein and Popular Culture", Edited by Bernhard Stricker & Martin Urschel, Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein 2024. © Anthem Press

NEW RELEASE: Wittgenstein and Popular Culture, edited by Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel, London/New York/Melbourne: The Anthem Press 2026, https://anthempress.com/books/wittgenstein-and-popular-culture-hb.

 

  • GUEST LECTURE at the University of Siegen’s Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies on the topic “Unexpected Repopularization? A Reencounter with Hebel’s Calendar on Radio During the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Era,” Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 4:15 p.m.

Academic Career

  • Since April 2021: Research Associate at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
  • March 2019–March 2021: Teaching Fellow at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at the TU Dresden
  • November 2019: Completed doctoral dissertation titled “Literature, Skepticism, and the Good Life: Stanley Cavell as a Reader” (overall grade: summa cum laude)
  • Winter Semester 2018/19: Freelance lecturer at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
  • September 2018–December 2018: Research Assistant at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) at TU Dresden
  • March 2015–December 2018: Work on a dissertation titled “Literature, Skepticism, and the Good Life: Stanley Cavell as a Reader,” supervised by Prof. Dr. Ethel Matala de Mazza at Humboldt University of Berlin
  • March 2015–February 2018: Doctoral fellow of the Cusanuswerk’s Episcopal Scholarship Program
  • Winter Semester 2017/18: Freelance lecturer at the Chair of General and Comparative Literature (Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans) at Ruhr University Bochum
  • Jan. 2016–May 2016: Research fellowship as a visiting scholar in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley (USA)
  • 2012–2015: Editor of the Jean-Paul Society Yearbook
  • Since October 2014: Member of the international graduate network PhD-Net “The Knowledge of Literature” (Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl) at Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 11/2012–08/2014: Single-subject master’s program in General and Comparative Literature at Ruhr University Bochum
  • November 2008–May 2014: Scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation
  • 09/2013–12/2013: Erasmus exchange student in Modern Literature at the Université François Rabelais in Tours (France)
  • 08/2009–08/2013: Student Assistant at the Chair of General and Comparative Literature (Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans) at Ruhr University Bochum
  • 10/2008–11/2012: Double-major bachelor’s degree in General and Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum

Research Interests

  • Relationships between literature and philosophy (especially ordinary language philosophy, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy of language)
  • Short forms, particularly calendar texts
  • Historical and literary anthropologies (especially anthropologies of everyday life)
  • Language-learning scenarios
  • Literature and Knowledge (epistemology, skepticism)
  • Literary representations and reflections on time and temporality
  • Literary, cultural, and media theory

Publications and Lectures

Monographs

Reviewed by Philipp Zimmermann, in: Perspectives on Philosophy 49 (2023), pp. 240–246. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004686052_012.

Editors

  • Zweisamkeit. On the Art of Living Together in Couple Relationships, edited by Bernhard Stricker, Silvia Schneider, and Günter Gödde. Berlin/Heidelberg: Metzler 2026 (= “Schriften zur Kritischen Lebenskunst” series).

  • Calendars and Short Forms. Cultural Studies Contextualizations of Johann Peter Hebel’s Calendar Texts, edited by Kevin Drews and Bernhard Stricker. Göttingen: Wallstein 2026, OPEN ACCESS https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835362048-kalender-und-kleine-form.html.

  • Wittgenstein and Popular Culture, edited by Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel. London, New York, Melbourne, et al.: Anthem Press (series “Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein”) 2026. https://anthempress.com/books/wittgenstein-and-popular-culture-hb
  • KWZ 1/2025: Special Issue “Presence of Mind and Reflectiveness: Small Forms of Intervention,” edited by Bernhard Stricker. Open Access: https://meiner.de/catalog/product/view/id/19002/category/2074/
  • Jean Paulhan: The Experience of the Proverb. Ethnographic Texts. Translated and with an afterword by Bernhard Stricker. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press (= reihe ethno|graphien) 2025.

Reviewed by Maximilian Gilleßen, in: FAZ, Oct. 26, 2026, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/sachbuch/jean-paulhans-die-erfahrung-des-sprichworts-accg-110704462.html

Reviewed by Gerhard Poppenberg, in: Berlin Review, No. 17, Feb. 2026, https://blnreview.de/ausgaben/2026-02/poppenberg-paulhan-madagaskar-sprichwoerter

Essays

  • “‘Once Is Not Enough.’ The Philosophy of the Remarriage Comedy as Exemplified by Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, ”in: Togetherness. On the Art of Living Together in Couple Relationships. Edited by Bernhard Stricker, Silvia Schneider, and Günter Gödde. Berlin/Heidelberg: Metzler 2026, pp. 175–192.
  • “Marriage as a Way of Life? Stanley Cavell’s Moral Perfectionism as a Philosophy of Couple Relationships,” in: Togetherness. On the Art of Living Together in Couple Relationships. Edited by Bernhard Stricker, Silvia Schneider, and Günter Gödde. Berlin/Heidelberg: Metzler 2026, pp. 21–39.
  • “Introduction to the Topic” (co-authored with Silvia Schneider and Günter Gödde), in: Togetherness. On the Art of Living Together in Couple Relationships. Edited by Bernhard Stricker, Silvia Schneider, and Günter Gödde. Berlin/Heidelberg: Metzler 2026, pp. 1–17.
  • “‘Life as if by Express Mail’? Hebel and Optical Telegraphy (From World Events to Kannitverstan),” in: Kevin Drews and Bernhard Stricker (eds.): Calendars and Short Forms. Cultural Studies Contextualizations of Hebel’s Calendar Texts. Göttingen: Wallstein 2026, pp. 229–263.
  • “Introduction: On the Cultural Studies Contextualization of Hebel’s Calendar Texts” (co-authored with Kevin Drews), in: Kevin Drews and Bernhard Stricker (eds.): Calendars and Short Forms. Cultural Studies Contextualizations of Hebel’s Calendar Texts. Göttingen: Wallstein 2026, pp. 7–24.
  • “Ladders, Signposts, and a Message in a Bottle: Wittgenstein and Janosch on the ‘Art of Living’,” in: Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel (eds.): Wittgenstein and Popular Culture. London, New York, Melbourne, et al.: Anthem Press (series “Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein”) 2026, pp. 135–157.
  • “Introduction: Wittgenstein and Popular Culture” (co-authored with Martin Urschel), in: Bernhard Stricker and Martin Urschel (eds.): Wittgenstein and Popular Culture. London, New York, Melbourne, et al.: Anthem Press (series “Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein”) 2026, pp. xi–xxv.

  • “Enigmatic Reality? How Luc Boltanski Allows Himself to Be Led Astray by Father Brown.” In: Trivial Procedures of Truth. On the Ambiguity of Clues in Crime Stories from the 18th to the 21st Century. Edited by Antonia Eder. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler 2026 (= “Crime in Literature and Media” series), pp. 131–155.

  • “Stanley Cavell: *Cities of Words*. A Moral Register in Philosophy, Film, and Literature (2004),” in: *Key Works of the Critical Art of Living I: From Theodor W. Adorno to Corine Pelluchon*, edited by Günter Gödde and Jörg Zirfas. Berlin/Heidelberg: Metzler 2026, pp. 81–99.

  • “The Power of Time: Anxiety in Hebel’s Calendar Stories,” in: Writing Angst. Horror Literature, the Gothic Novel, and Literary Horror from 1800 to the Present. Edited by Jakob Baur, Lars Koch, and Barbara Schaff. Bielefeld: transcript 2026, pp. 275–291 (Open Access).

  • “On the Dissolution of Rural Boundaries in Calendar Communities: From Johann Peter Hebel’s *Rheinländischer Hausfreund* (1803–1819) to Günter Eich and Martin Raschke’s *Königswusterhäuser Landbote* (1933–40),” in: The Deconstruction of the Rural: Transformations of Rural Life and Rural Spaces from the 19th Century to the Present, edited by Willi W. Barthold, Christian Hißnauer, Christian Prunitsch, and Claudia Stockinger. Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 113–135 (Open Access).

  • “The Experience of the Commonplace: On the Ethnographic Origin of ‘Presence of Mind’ in Paulhan and Benjamin.” In: KWZ 1/2025, special issue “Presence of Mind and Reflectiveness: Small Forms of Intervention,” edited by Bernhard Stricker, pp. 61–87 (Open Access).

  • “Editorial.” In: KWZ 1/2025, special issue “Presence of Mind and Contemplation: Small Forms of Intervention,” edited by Bernhard Stricker, pp. 5–15 (Open Access).

  • “Proust’s Invisible View of Delft—Reflections with Merleau-Ponty on a Phenomenology of Original Memory.” In: Journal of Aesthetics and General Art Studies 69/2 (2024): Special Issue “Poetics of Phenomenology,” pp. 67–87.
  • “‘Democratization of Genius’ or Ennoblement of the Ordinary? On Richard Rorty’s Misreading of a Poem by Philip Larkin.” In: Schriftstücke 5 (2023), Special Issue: “Freedom of Philosophy—Freedom of Poetry,” pp. 190–220.
  • “The Retrospectivity of the Everyday. Stanley Cavell’s Ethics of Implication.” In: Times of the Everyday. Edited by Jonas Cantarella, Michael Gamper, and Dina Edmundts. Basel, Berlin: Schwabe 2024, pp. 269–289.
  • “Provisional Life: On the Precarious Relationship Between Form and Processuality in Stanley Cavell.” In: Suffering and the Art of Living in Modernity. Edited by Eike Brock, Günter Gödde, and Jörg Zirfas. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler 2023 (= “Kritische Lebenskunst” series), pp. 377–394.
  • “‘Emaciated’ Form. Mastery of Time in Kafka’s ‘A Hunger Artist.’” In: Literary Organotechnology. Studies in a History of Discourse and Imagination. Edited by Lars Koch, Sarah Neelsen, and Julia Prager. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2024, pp. 193–219.
  • “‘Kannitverstan’: Nonunderstanding in Blumenberg and Hebel.” In: Unaivailable. The Joy of Not Responding. Edited by Marie-Luise Goldmann and Anna Hordych. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, pp. 173–197.
  • “Presence of Mind, or: Listening to History Being Written. The Narrator Patrick Roth in the Light of Benjamin and Hebel.” In: The Christ Trilogy Between the Bible, Dreams, and Religious Experience. Patrick Roth in Conversation. Edited by Michaela Kopp-Marx, Martin W. Ramb, and Holger Zaborowski. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2022, pp. 61–88.

  • “Hebel’s Afterlife. The Calendar Story as a Short Form.” In: Archive for Media History 19 (2021): “Short Forms,” pp. 133–143.

  • “All of Philosophy Is Merely a Meditation on Shakespeare.” Emmanuel Lévinas on Tragedy. In: Weimarer Beiträge 67 (2021), no. 2, pp. 252–266.

  • “The Human in the Interstice: Everyday Life, Aesthetics, and Autobiography in Siegfried Kracauer, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell.” In: Heavenly—Earthly—Hellish: Religious and Anthropological Approaches to a Historicized Aesthetics. Edited by Olivia Kobiela and Lena Zschunke. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2019, pp. 437–475.
  • “From Knowledge to Recognition: Stanley Cavell on Skepticism and Tragedy.” In: Forms of Knowledge: Epistemic Functions of Literary Procedures. Edited by the Graduate College on Literary Form. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2017, pp. 75–104.
  • “Experience Missed or Lost? – Cavell’s Concept of the Ordinary and Walter Benjamin on the ‘Loss of Aura.’” In: Conversations. The Journal of Cavellian Studies 4 (2016), pp. 2–25.
  • “Tout et rien. Proust’s Invisible ‘View of Delft.’” In: Quaderni proustiani 2015. Edited by Gennaro Oliviero. Naples 2015, pp. 233–245.
  • “Clouds as a Poetological Motif in Philippe Jaccottet.” In: Wolken. Edited by Kurt Röttgers and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Essen: Die Blaue Eule 2015, pp. 87–101.
  • “Imitation and Theatricality. All About Evein the Light of Stanley Cavell’s Philosophy.” In: On Imposture. Perspectives on a Cultural Practice. Edited by Wieland Schwanebeck. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag 2014, pp. 177–193.
  • “L’intérêt de la lecture—Reading and Being Read (Proust, Thoreau, de Man, Cavell).” In: Readings of Proust. Edited by Peter Brandes. Hamburg: Dr. Kovac 2014, pp. 17–66.
  • “Pygmalion’s Children. The Motif of the Animated Statue in Shakespeare’s *The Winter’s Tale* and Hofmannsthal’s *The Woman Without a Shadow*.” In: Stones, Petrified Things. Edited by Kurt Röttgers and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Essen: Die Blaue Eule 2014, pp. 115–127.
  • “The Ethical Significance of Skepticism: Stanley Cavell and Emmanuel Lévinas.” In: Phänomenologische Forschungen / Recherches phénoménologiques 2012. Edited by Karl-Heinz Lembeck, Karl Mertens, and Ernst Wolfgang Orth. Hamburg: Meiner 2013, pp. 127–161.
  • “Surfaces and Depths of Philosophy: Wittgenstein on Skepticism and Everyday Language.” In: Above and Below: Surfaces and Depths. Edited by Kurt Röttgers and Monika Schmitz-Emans. Essen: Die Blaue Eule 2013, pp. 141–151.
  • “Job—Our Contemporary? On the Reception of Job in the Films *A Serious Man* and *Life Is Too Long*.” In: Catastrophes: Confrontations with the Real. Edited by Solvejg Nitzke and Mark Schmitt. Essen: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag 2012, pp. 45–60.

Lectures

  • “A Guide to Finding One’s Own Voice. On Stanley Cavell’s Reading of *Walden*, ” lecture as part of the lecture series “Henry David Thoreau—The Philosopher as a Master of the Art of Living: On the History and Present of His Thought,” Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, November 9, 2026
  • “In Father Brown’s Footsteps. How G.K. Chesterton Discovered the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment,’” lecture as part of the conference “Theory|Religion(s). Religion in Theory and the History of Theory: Between Reconnection and Re-reading,” Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, October 8–9, 2026
  • “Hebel and Optical Telegraphy,” lecture as part of the conference “‘My heart is never closer to you than when I am far from you.’ New Approaches to Johann Peter Hebel’s Correspondence,” international conference on September 17–18, 2026, at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe
  • “Goethe’s Elective Affinities —A ‘Tragedy of Remarriage’?” Lecture at the annual meeting of the “Critical Art of Living” network, Berlin, September 3, 2026

  • “Unexpected Repopularization? A Reencounter with Hebel’s Calendar on Radio During the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Era,” guest lecture at the Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Siegen, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 4:15 p.m.

  • “Hebel en visite à Strasbourg, ou: L’almanach populaire et le télégraphe optique,” University of Strasbourg, Colloquium of the Research Group “Mondes germaniques et nord-européens,” February 6, 2026, 5:00 p.m. https://mgne.unistra.fr/actualites/lunite-de-recherche-accueille-bernhard-stricker-en-fevrier-2026/

  • “The Proverb as a ‘Traveling Form’? Jean Paulhan and Malagasy Proverb Poetry,” guest lecture at the research colloquium hosted by Prof. Dr. Juliane Vogel, University of Konstanz, January 20, 2026

  • “Small Forms of Conflict. Jean Paulhan and Malagasy Proverb Poetry.” Guest lecture at the DFG Research Training Group 2190 “History of Literature and Knowledge of Small Forms” at Humboldt University of Berlin, April 14, 25
  • “People, Monsters, and Machines: On Literary Language-Learning Scenes.” Lecture as part of the workshop “Fleeing Languages: Grammar—Literature—Politics,” TU Dresden, Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures, March 6–7, 2025
  • “‘Poetic Duels’: The Malagasy hain-teny as a Model for Short Forms of Literary Intervention?” Guest lecture at Leuphana University Lüneburg in the seminar “Literature and Conflict” (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kevin Drews), June 25, 2024
  • “The ‘Limping Messenger’ in the ‘Global Village’? From the Rheinländischer Hausfreund (1803–19) to the Königswusterhäuser Landbote (1933–40).” Lecture as part of the conference “The Demarcation of the Rural: New Perspectives on Transformations of Rural Life and Rural Spaces from the 19th Century to the Present,” TU Dresden, April 3–4, 2024
  • “The Experience of the Commonplace: Jean Paulhan’s Ethnographic Interventions,” lecture presented at the conference “Presence of Mind and Reflectiveness: Small Forms of Intervention,” organized by Bernhard Stricker, TUD Dresden University of Technology, July 6–7, 2023
  • “Presence of Mind. Practices of Time and Reflection on Time in the History of the Almanac,” lecture as part of the conference “Genre and the Present” at RTG 2291 “Present/Literature,” University of Bonn, June 22–24, 2023
  • “Economies of the Almanac around 1800.” Presentation at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, January 5–8, 2023.

  • “Presence of Mind: Benjamin Reads Hebel.” Lecture presented at the International Walter Benjamin Society conference “Hope—Rethinking with Benjamin,” November 4–6, 2021, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, in cooperation with the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin.

  • “Towards a Hermeneutics of Seduction.” Lecture as part of the panel “Seduced Heroes, Seduced Readers” at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), April 8–11, 2021.

  • “‘Toute la philosophie n’est qu’une méditation de Shakespeare.’ Emmanuel Lévinas on Tragedy.” Lecture as part of the workshop “Literature and Phenomenology” at Humboldt University of Berlin, July 4–5, 2019.

  • “‘Toute la philosophie n’est qu’une méditation de Shakespeare.’ Emmanuel Lévinas on Tragedy.” Lecture given as part of the conference “The Marginalized Early Work of Emmanuel Lévinas. ‘Le Temps et l’Autre’ as a Lens” held November 15–17, 2018, at the TU Dresden.
  • “Silence in the Woods?—Thoreau with Cavell, or: The Nature of Meaning.” Lecture on April 23, 2018, as part of the workshop “The Ecology of Home: Literary and Cultural Studies Perspectives on ‘Natural’ Relationships” at the Institute of German Studies at TU Dresden.
  • “Literary Form and Way of Life.” Lecture on July 22, 2017, as part of the Summer School “Transformations of Literature, Knowledge, and Media” organized by the thematic network “Literature—Knowledge—Media” at Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • “Philosophy’s Forgetfulness of Writing or Voice? Jacques Derrida and Stanley Cavell.” Lecture on June 6, 2017, as part of the 17th Conference of the DGAVL on the topic “A Comparison of Writing and the Graphic” at Ruhr University Bochum.
  • “The Human in the Interstice, or: The Utopia of the Everyday. Siegfried Kracauer and Stanley Cavell.” Lecture on May 20, 2017, as part of the early-career conference “Heavenly—Earthly—Hellish: Religious and Anthropological Approaches to a Historicized Aesthetics” at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
  • “The Schematics of Idioms: The Case of Cottard.” Lecture on July 1, 2016, as part of the workshop “Proust and Knowledge” at Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • “The Silence of the Text. Literary Form and Philosophical Insight According to Stanley Cavell.” Lecture on December 6, 2014, as part of the conference organized by the Research Training Group on Literary Form “At the End of the History of Knowledge? On the Epistemological Potential of Literary Form” at the University of Münster.
  • “Espérer sous tant de nuages. Philippe Jaccottet’s Cloud Formations.” Lecture at the philosophical-literary summer colloquium on the topic of “Clouds” on July 4–5, 2014, chaired by Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Prof. Dr. Kurt Röttgers at Ruhr University Bochum.
  • “Everything and Nothing. Proust’s Invisible ‘View of Delft.’” Lecture as part of the colloquium “Une Journée avec Proust: On the Centennial of *In Search of Lost Time*”on November 14, 2013, at Ruhr University Bochum.
  • “Pygmalion’s Children. The Motif of the Animated Statue in Shakespeare’s *The Winter’s Tale* and Hofmannsthal’s *Woman Without a Shadow*.” Lecture at the philosophical-literary summer colloquium on the topic “Stones, Petrified Things” on July 6–7, 2013, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Prof. Dr. Kurt Röttgers at Ruhr University Bochum.
  • “Lies, Imitation, Theatricality— *All About Eve* in the Light of Stanley Cavell’s ‘Emersonian Perfectionism.’” Presentation at the scholarship recipients’ conference of the German National Academic Foundation on the topic “Lies—Deception—Imposture” on June 27–28, 2013, at the TU Dresden.
  • “Philosophical (Un)Depths. Thoreau and Wittgenstein.” Lecture at the philosophical-literary summer colloquium on the topic “Above and Below. Surfaces and Depths” on July 6–7, 2012, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Prof. Dr. Kurt Röttgers at Ruhr University Bochum.
  • “Job—Our Contemporary? On the Reception of Job in the Films *A Serious Man* and *Life Is Too Long*.” Lecture at the Comparative Literature Colloquium for Early-Career Scholars on the topic “Catastrophes” on September 16–17, 2011, at Ruhr University Bochum.

Translations

  • Jean Paulhan: The Experience of the Proverb. Ethnographic Texts. Translated and with an afterword by Bernhard Stricker. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press (= reihe ethno|graphien) 2025.

  • Translation (from English) by Johannes Voelz: “Toward an Aesthetics of Populism. Part I: The Populist Space of Appearance.” In:The Great Disruptor. On Trump, the Media, and the Politics of Degradation. Edited by Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz, and Christina Rogers. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2019, pp. 187–214.

Online Publications

  • “Not Every Day.” [On Helga Schubert’s *Today*. A Book of Hours of Love]. In: *Chronistic Writing Styles*. Blog of the DFG project “Literary Chronicling: Elements of a Writing Style in 20th-Century German-Language Literature.” https://chronistik.germanistik.uni-halle.de/2024/12/nicht-alle-tage/

Reviews

  • “Reflections on Language and Pain.” Review of: Ilit Ferber, *Sprachwehen: On Pain and the Origin of Language*. Berlin: Neofelis 2023. In: *Comparatio*. Journal of Comparative Literature, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2024), pp. 173–175.

  • Review of: Matthias Grandl and Melanie Möller (eds.): *Knowledge in Miniature: Theory and Epistemology of the Anecdote*. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. In: Journal of Cultural Studies 2/2022, pp. 89–95.
  • “Reflex Instead of Reflection.” Review of: Amanda Lasker-Berlin: *Iva atmet*. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2021. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “Liberation from the Prison of the Mind.” Review of: Hubert Dreyfus/Charles Taylor: The Reclaiming of Realism. Suhrkamp 2016. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative Criticism by Literature Enthusiasts.
  • “So long, Leonard.” Obituary for Leonard Cohen. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “Walden’s ‘New World’ Remains to Be Discovered.” Review of: Stanley Cavell, *The Senses of Walden*. Matthes&Seitz 2014. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative Criticism by Literature Enthusiasts.
  • “Can Time Be Reversed?” Review of: Jeanette Winterson, *The Vast Space of Time*. Knaus 2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative Criticism by Literature Enthusiasts.
  • “Theory-Bio-Graphy.” Review of: Dieter Thomä/Vincent Kaufmann/Ulrich Schmid: The Influx of Life. Theory as Secret Autobiography. Hanser 2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative Criticism by Literature Enthusiasts.
  • “Philosophizing for Those Unafraid of Heights.” Review of: Lev Shestov: *Apotheosis of Groundlessness and Other Texts*. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Felix Philipp Ingold. Matthes&Seitz 2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “Theory as a Practical Tool.” Review of: Philipp Felsch: The Long Summer of Theory. History of a Revolt, 1960–1990. C.H. Beck 2015. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative Criticism by Literature Enthusiasts.
  • “Stoic Realism.” Review of: John Williams: *Butcher’s Crossing* / *Stoner*. dtv 2013/2015. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “‘An eerie wall that language cannot quite penetrate.’” Review of: Anne Weber: *Ahnen*. A Time-Travel Diary. S. Fischer 2015. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “The Hidden History of the West.”Review of: Hubert Dreyfus/Sean Dorrance Kelly: *Everything That Shines: How Great Literature Explains the Meaning of Life*. Ullstein 2014. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “Aporias of Consciousness, Impasses of Love.” Review of: Heinz Helle: The Soothing Sound of Exploding Kerosene. Suhrkamp 2014. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative Criticism by Literature Enthusiasts.
  • “Socrates Revisited.” Review of: Michael Hampe, *The Teachings of Philosophy*. Suhrkamp 2014. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • “Putting the Humanly Possible into Words.”Review of: *Report by the Fire*. Conversations, Emails, and Phone Calls on the Work of Christoph Ransmayr. Edited by Insa Wilke. S. Fischer, 2014. In: literaturundfeuilleton. Comparative criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • Review of: Hans Feger (ed.): Handbook of Literature and Philosophy. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2012. In: comparatio. Journal of Comparative Literature 5 (2013), no. 2, pp. 343–345.
  • Review of: Anja Ernst and Paul Geyer (eds.): Romanticism: A Founding Myth of European Modernity. Bonn: Bonn UP 2010. In: comparatio. Journal of Comparative Literature 5 (2013), No. 2, pp. 345–347.
  • “In 70 Journeys Around the World.” Review of: Christoph Ransmayr: *Atlas of a Fearful Man*. S. Fischer 2012. In: *literaturundfeuilleton*. Comparative literary criticism by literature enthusiasts.
  • Review of: Joséphine Alida Jacquier: Fragmented Antiquity. On the Traces of a Modern *chrêsis* in Charles Baudelaire’s *Fleurs du Mal*. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2009. In: *comparatio*. Journal of Comparative

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

  • 11/2023: “The Ambiguous Figure of the Commonplace: Paradoxes of Doxa, ”workshop at the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures at TU Dresden, keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Anna-Louise Milne (University of London, Paris)

  • 09/2023: “Wittgenstein and Popular Culture,” panel at the 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Cultural Studies in Saarbrücken (together with Martin Urschel)

  • July 2023: “Presence of Mind and Reflectiveness: Small Forms of Intervention,” international conference at the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures at TU Dresden; keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Paul Fleming (Cornell University)

Conference report by Christian Marchlewitz, in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, New Series XXXIV, No. 1 (2024), pp. 253–256.

Conference report by Hennig Podulski (“Expanding and Condensing: On Short Forms”), in: Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin, Oct. 26, 2023, https://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de/erweitern-und-verdichten-ueber-kleine-formen/

  • September 2022: “Radical Ambiguity: On the Precarious Phenomenality of the Ambiguous,” panel at the 27th German Conference of Germanists, Paderborn (together with Lars Koch and Julia Prager)
  • 09/2019: Conceptualization, organization, and direction of a two-week summer academy for Cusanuswerk scholarship recipients on the topic “‘The stage is the world.’—Theater Today”
  • 03/2019: Design, organization, and direction of a two-week summer academy for Cusanuswerk scholarship recipients on the topic “Next Year in Jerusalem: An Introduction to Judaism”
  • 03/2018: Design, organization, and direction of a two-week summer academy for Cusanuswerk scholarship recipients on the topic “‘The Spirit That Always Says No.’—Philosophizing About Evil”
  • 10/2017: Design and organization of the two-day workshop “The Voice(s) of the People? Literature and Film between Democracy and Populism” at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) (in collaboration with Dariya Manova, Hannah Fissenebert, and Sebastian Schweer)
  • July 2017: Collaboration on the design of the summer school of the thematic network “Literature – Knowledge – Media,” titled “Transformations of Literature, Knowledge, and Media,” held July 22–27, 2017, at Humboldt University in Berlin
  • June 2016: Conceptualization and organization of the two-day workshop “Proust and Knowledge” at Humboldt University in Berlin (together with PD Dr. Peter Brandes)

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