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Klosterberg, the third novel by GSPoL alumn Boris Celeste Hoge-Benteler, explores themes of shelter and isolation, of inner realms of escape and the blurring of boundaries. With a rapturous, poetic voice, it pushes the possibilities of perception and language, drawing us into a mental landscape that is at once unsettling and compelling, claustrophobic and liberating.

Katharina Scheerer has received the Dissertation Award of the German Society for Research in the Fantastic (GFF) for her dissertation "Popular Modernity: Science Fiction between Pulp and Avant-Garde (1863–1947)." The international jury praised her work as a significant contribution to the study of the fantastic and science fiction. Warm congratulations on this achievement!

We warmly congratulate Katharina Scheerer on the successful defense of her dissertation! Her research at the Graduate School Practices of Literature focused on "Space Travelers, Martians and Golems: The Relationship between Avant-garde and Popular Culture in Science Fiction around 1900."

Congratulations to Dr. Boris Hoge-Benteler on publishing his first novel Sonnenstadt (2022) with kul-ja! publishing! Sonnenstadt deals with trauma and fear, the loss of relationships and disorientation as well as the search for beauty and plays with elements of the coming-of-age novel, the road novel and the thriller genre.

The preparation of the exhibit 'Eden? Plants between Science and Fiction,' which will be on display from May 15 to 29, 2022, is in full swing. Information on the current status and progress of the project is available on the homepage of the exhibit as well as on Instagram and Twitter.

Students of literature who are interested in doing a PhD are cordially invited to take part in our digital information event. External guests are also welcome.

Paper proposals for the conference Vögel aus Federn: Verschriftlichungen des Vogels seit 1800 can be submitted until January 29, 2021 (German only).  The event is organized by GSPoL members Manuel Förderer and Cristine Huck as well as Laura Reiling (German Department/FB 09 Philology, WWU Münster).

The volume Literaturpreise. Geschichte, Theorie und Praxis. has been published with Königshausen & Neumann.
The GSPoL congratulates alumnus Dennis Borghardt and alumna Sarah Maaß on the anthology's publication.

The GSPoL congratulates alumna Dr. Franziska Trapp on the publication of her dissertation with de Gruyter. Trapp develops an innovative method to analyse contemporary circus performances by drawing on literary, theatre and dance studies.

We are happy to announce that the Kunstverein Leipzig invited our member and doctoral candidate Martina Kigle to present her dissertation project and to discuss "artistic research" with the Berlin artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis.