New Cohort at the Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere”
The Research Training Group (GRK 2806) Literature and the Public Sphere ( https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg has officially welcomed its second cohort of doctoral researchers.
An additional piece of good news arrived last week: the DFG approved an extra doctoral position, increasing the cohort size from 11 to 12 PhD candidates!
Among the new projects, three integrate Digital Humanities approaches:
Cristian Ortega Singer develops a multimodal poetry slam corpus to study corporeality and performance in contemporary literary publics.
Charlotte Panušková models digital social reading practices in the Czech Republic, expanding the project’s transnational perspective.
Luise Prager investigates German literary prizes and applies stylometric methods to explore textual dynamics and canon formation.
Prof. Dr. Anastasia Glawion serves as first supervisor for the projects by Luise Prager and Cris Ortega, and as second supervisor for Charlotte Panušková’s dissertation.
The three projects broaden the GRK’s perspective on literature and the public sphere and show how Digital Humanities methods enrich current literary studies.