Dr. Florian Scherübl

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Research Associate (as of September 1, 2026)

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Dr. Florian Scherübl

Walter Benjamin Research Fellowship (DFG)

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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Academic Career

Publications

Monograph (in preparation)

• World Dissolutions: Studies on Unstable Narrative Worlds in German and French Literature (1945–1965), Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden 2023.

Edited Volumes

• Farewells to Postmodernism? Recent Historicizations of “Theory” Between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, transcript: Bielefeld 2022.

Essays

• Intensity as a Form of Knowledge and Life: On the Relationship Between Aphorism, Poetry, and Criticism in Gerhard Falkner, in : Weimarer Beiträge 70.1 (2024), pp. 102–124.
• The Image and the Voice. Giorgio Agamben as a Reader of Averroes, * * 2/2023 (forthcoming).
• In Praise of Women and the Death of Men: Displacements in Troubadour Poetry in Stefan George’s “Book of Legends and Songs,” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (accepted; to be published in issue 4/2024)
• The Spectrum of the Spectral. Ghosts in the Humanities, in : Michael Eggers/Adrian Robanus (eds.), Topics of Theory. On the Rhetorical Structure of Theory after Its Proclaimed End, Berlin 2023, pp. 215–226.
• Inscriptions. The Scientific Constitution of Objects as an Ethical Act in Jacques Derrida and Karen Barad, in : Martin Bartelmus (ed.), Writing and Writability: Activity, Agency, and Actants of Writing, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 127–144.
• Postmodernism, Poststructuralism… Panfictionalism!?! Problems of Classifying “Theory” Using the Example of a Concept from Narratology and Fictionality Theory, in : Florian Scherübl (ed.), Farewells to “Postmodernism.” Recent Historicizations between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 125–148.
• Farewells to “Postmodernism.” Introduction, in : Florian Scherübl (ed.), Farewells to “Postmodernism.” Recent Historicizations between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 7–18.
• Lyrics? Poetry? Transmedia Structures as the Horizon of Meaning Production in Pop, in : Uwe Schütte (ed.), German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedia Perspectives, Oxford/New York 2021, pp. 117–134.
• “Deterritorialized Travels. Notes on World, Earth, and Literature in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari,” in: Transit 13.1 (2021), pp. 182–193.
• Territories, Worlds, Earth. Deleuze and Guattari’s *What Is Philosophy? * as a Farewell to Heidegger’s *The Origin of the Work of Art*, in: *Weimarer e Beiträge* 66.3 (2020), pp. 441–460.
• Nietzsche as a Pragmatist. Traces of William James in Gilles Deleuze’s Interpretation of Nietzsche, in: *Jahrbuch Nietzsche-Forschung*27 (2020), pp. 323–343.
• The Museum of Inability. The Museality of Everyday Life in Georges Perec’s *Les choses*, in : Ulrike Vedder/Johanna Stapelfeld/Klaus Wiehl (eds.), *Museales Erzählen*, Paderborn 2020, pp. 55–73.
• Eduard Gans’s Hegelianism and the Verein für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Judentums: A Reconsideration of a Constellation Concerning Heinrich Heine’s Relationship to Hegel, in : Revista Electrônica Estudos Hegelianos 16 (2019), pp. 123–147.
• Missed Opportunities: Umberto Eco’s Textual Pragmatism and the Unresolved Problems of the Possible Worlds Theory of Literature, in : *Scientia Poetica*. *Yearbook for History of Literature and Sciences * 22 (2018), pp. 128–150.
• “Haunted by Ghosts”: The Function and Significance of the Spirit and Ghostly Beings in Heinrich Heine’s Writings of the 1830s, in: Roland Schiffter/Sabine Bierwirth (eds.), Heinrich Heine – Miscellaneous Writings from Berlin, Berlin 2018, pp. 181–217.
• The (All)Generalized World of Signs: Perspectivism and Comprehensibility in FW 354 and “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense,” in: Yearbook Nietzsche Research25 (2018), pp. 272–282.
• The Image of Nietzsche in Reference Works on the Conservative Revolution and Among Its Critics, in : Andreas Urs Sommer/Sebastian Kaufmann (eds.), Nietzsche and the Conservative Revolution, Berlin/Boston 2018, pp. 577–597.
• Heinrich Heine and Michael Sachs: “The Relationship Between Haggadah and Halakha in ‘Jehuda ben Halevy’ Against the Background of Heine’s Source ‘The Religious Poetry of the Jews in Spain,’” in : Heine-Jahrbuch 55 (2016), pp. 16–27.

Reviews

• Esther von der Osten/Caroline Sauter (eds.), What Is a “Relevant” Translation? Working with Derrida, in : Weimarer Beiträge 69.3 (2023).
• Marie-Luise Goldmann/Anna Hordych (eds.), Unavailable. The Joy of Not Responding, Berlin 2023, in: Komparatistik. Yearbook of the German Society for general and comparative literary studies 2023.
• Cornelia Pierstorff, “Ontological Narratology: Narrating the World in the Work of Wilhelm Raabe,” in : DIEGESIS 13.2 (2024) (forthcoming).

Journalism

• A Crisis of Narrative? On Stories About the End of the “Narrative Turn,” in : Geschichte der Gegenwart (https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/krise-der-erzaehlung-ueber-geschichten-vom-ende-der-narrativen-wende/; June 18, 2023)

Translations (Books)

• Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romanticism, Wolff : Berlin 2018.
• Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche and the Metaphor, Wolff: Berlin 2014.
• Ernst Jünger, *Conversations in the World State*, ed . by Thomas Petraschka and Rainer Barbey, Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart 2019 (anthology of French-language interviews with Ernst Jünger; partial translation).

Event Organization

• Workshop: Farewells to Postmodernism? New Historicizations of “Theory” Between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, April 30 , 2021, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Lectures