Publications
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Antagonisten im höfischen Roman? Eine Skizze
This contribution (re-)examines the description and multiple functions of selected antagonists in courtly romance around 1200. Excepting romance of antiquity, one rarely encounters equal opponents who represent a contrary system of values and continue to…
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Widerspruch als Erzählprinzip in der Vormoderne? Eine Projektskizze
In premodern narratives contradictions are omnipresent – conflicting concepts, logical inconsistencies, acts of objection. In a narratological perspective ›contradiction‹ – conflicts of incompatible knowledges and narrative patterns; inconsistencies in or between speech (by narrator or…
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Erzählen in transkultureller Perspektive. Zur Poetologie der Widersprüche in der europäischen Heldendichtung
In Kasten, Ingrid & Laura Auteri (eds.) Transkulturalität und Translation. Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters im europäischen Kontext, 243–252. Berlin: De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110556438-017
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Kriemhild im 21. Jahrhundert. Variationen über eine widersprüchliche Figur
In Ingrid Bennewitz & Detlef Goller (eds.) altiu maere heute. Die Nibelungen und ihre Rezeption im 21. Jahrhundert.(Bamberger Germanistische Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitstudien 6) 11-43. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. ISBN: 978-3-86309-884-1 DOI: 10.20378/irb-57732
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Schichten von Geschichte in aktueller Nibelungenrezeption
In Febel, Gisela, Sonja Kerth & Elisabeth Lienert (eds.) Wider die Geschichtsvergessenheit. Inszenierte Geschichte – historische Differenz – kritisches Bewusstsein. 39-53. Bielefeld: transcript. DOI: 10.1515/9783839459294-003
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Agency and Incentives of Diasporic Political Influencers on Facebook Malawi
This article examines the agency and incentives that drive the activism of diasporic political influencers on “Facebook Malawi,” an online imagined political community. In their seminal work on “social media dissidents” and “social media self-made…
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Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption (Special Issue)
Research in African Literatures, the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are…
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State of the Planet. Homi Bhabha and Namwali Serpell in Conversation
After explaining the rationale for bringing the author of The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell, and critical theorist Homi Bhabha into conversation, this interview with both of them explores some of the key themes of Serpell’s…
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Introduction. Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption
Research in African Literatures 53(3). 1-22. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/900030
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Sounds of Democracy: The Interview as an Instrument of Heuristic Attention to Discursive Voices
Against the backdrop of general considerations of the interview as a genre, the paper discusses under which theoretical conditions interviews are suitable instruments for discourse analysis. With a special interest in questions of the linguistic…
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Can a Finite Chain of Hydrogen Cyanide Molecules Model a Crystal?
When calculating structural or spectroscopic properties of molecular crystals, the question arises whether it is sufficient to simulate only a single molecule or a small molecular cluster or whether the simulation of the entire crystal…
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Paradoxien des Auditiven? Ambiguitäten und Diskrepanzen beim Hören und in der Musik
In the psychology of music and basic auditory research, there is talk of “paradoxes of hearing” or “musical paradoxies” (Deutsch 1986, 275-280; Utz 2015, 22-52; Deutsch 1995). But can auditory impressions really be paradoxical? What…
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Radical Democratic Care: eine sorgetheoretische Perspektive auf Praxen des Widersprechens
Contribution to the Journal Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft Zieringer, Carolin. 2024. Radical Democratic Care. Eine sorgetheoretische Perspektive auf Praxen des Widersprechens. In Femina Politica, 02/2024, 76-84.
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Gänsehaut, Liebe und Langeweile. Sprachliche Konstitution von Emotionen in Laienbuchrezensionen aus dem Schullektürekanon
In Meier, Christel, Carolin Führer, Marco Magirius & Silke Kubik (eds.) Evaluative ästhetische Rezeption als Grundlage literarischen Verstehens und Lernens: Theorie und Empirie (KREAplus Band 28) 243–256. Muenchen: kopaed. ISBN: 978-3-96848-095-4
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Digitale Räume als Aushandlungsort für Zentralität und Marginalität
In Auteri, Laura, Natascia Barrale, Arianna di Bella & Sabine Hoffmann (eds.) Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik. Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) 6: 511-515. Bern: Peter Lang…
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Marginalisierung in der Marginalität? Ein Blick auf digitale Räume anhand sprachlicher Konstruktion von randständigen Positionen im Kontext von Asexualität
This article discusses marginalisation in internet forums and blogging platforms using the example of asexuality blogs and discussion threads. While large corpora of both English and German, such as COCA and DeReKo, contain hardly any…
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Minorities and Majorities, Marginality and Centrality. An Introduction
In Hanna Acke, Silvia Bonacchi, Carsten Junker, Charlotta Seiler Brylla & Ingo H. Warnke (eds.), Religious and national discourses. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Volume 33 in the Series Diskursmuster/ Discourse Patterns eBook ISBN: 9783111039633 PrintISBN: 9783111027739