Organisers

Sarah Neelsen is assistant professor at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, member of the CEREG in Paris and associate member of the CIRTI in Liège. A specialist in contemporary German-speaking literature, she is interested in thought figures especially in the genre of the literary essay (cf. Essays by Elfriede Jelinek. Genre, relation, singularité, 2016), but also in post-1945 novels (Einar Schleef, Marlen Haushofer, Thomas Bernhard), as well as their use in pedagogy (didactics of translation, academic writing).

Julia Prager is assistant at the TU Dresden, member of the DFG-Research programme "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement". Since 2019, she is head of research network "Versammeln: mediale, räumliche und politische Konstellationen". She is the author of Frames of Critique. Kulturwissenschaftliche Handlungsfähigkeit ›nach‹ Judith Butler (2016)