New Fellow in the Summer Term: Barbara Bausch

12 April 2023

We welcome our new fellow Barbara Bausch M.A. at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Barbara Bausch is a researcher and lecturer in Literary Studies. Until March 2023 she held a Postdoc Position at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at FU Berlin. Her research interests include prose writing and prose theory, contemporary literature, and forms of political writing. During her research stay at the DFG CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from April to September 2023, she will investigate the topic »Uprising. The force of form in contemporary political writing«.

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