Sophia Lohmann
CurrentAcademic position
- Membership group
- PhD Candidate
- Department/Central Institute
- John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
- Institute/Seminar
- Graduate School of North American Studies
- Field/Area of work
- Department of Literature
Research focus
- Subject group
- Agricultural, Forest and Nutritional sciences
- Research focus
- Literary theory, essayism, modernism, world literature, American literature of the 20th century, transcultural writing; History of knowledge, gender and queer theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, aesthetics; practices of resistance, embodiment, border discourses, ‘minor’ poetics
Research Projects
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Eingreifendes Schreiben. Ethiken der Fremdbetrachtung, Genderwissen und politische (Text-)körper im nordamerikanischen Essay und in transatlantischen Theorieverflechtungen (1966-1992)
Ongoing Dissertation John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies -
The Minor Essay. Gender Knowledge, Body Politics and the Queer Poetics of Liminality in North American Essays
Ongoing Dissertation John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies