New Fellow in the Winter Term: Annika Hildebrandt

1 October 2024

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Annika Hildebrandt at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Annika Hildebrandt is a literary scholar specializing in the relationship between literature and society since the 18th century, the aesthetics of political literature, and theories of authorship. Since 2021, she researches and teaches at the Institute for German Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. During her research stay at the CAS from October 2024 to March 2025, she will investigate the topic »Aesthetic Class Struggle. Force in Concepts of Workers‘ Poetry around 1900«.

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