Karsten Levihn-Kutzler

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Karsten Levihn-Kutzler

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Karsten Levihn-Kutzler

Institute for English and American Studies
Literary and Cultural Studies

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • 19th, 20th, and 21st century Anglophone literatures
  • Postcolonial and transcultural theory
  • Environmental criticism
  • Literature and science

Lectures

Summer term 2023

3.02.141 S Nature Poetry

Winter term 2022 / 2023

3.02.980 S Island Literature

Summer term 2022

3.02.973 S Anthropocene Fictions

Winter term 2021 / 2022

3.02.143 S Black British Poetry
3.02.314 DS Directed Studies

Summer term 2021

3.02.314 DS Directed Studies

Winter term 2020 / 2021

3.02.140 S Colonial Gothic
3.02.314 DS Directed Studies

Summer term 2020

3.02.970 S “Science & Literature”: Evolution and the Novel

Winter term 2019 / 2020

3.02.141 S Postcolonial Science Fiction

Summer term 2019

3.02.131 S Writing the Indian Ocean

Academic CV

Since 2022

Post Doctoral Research Fellow,
University of Oldenburg Presidential Chair Program Budget for Research Seed Funding
2018 – 2021 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oldenburg
Research Cluster Fiction Meets Science (Volkswagen Foundation)
2018

PhD in English Literature, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
“Writing Global Risk: Manufactured Uncertainty and the Imagination of Globality in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction”(summa cum laude)
2016 – 2018 Doctoral research assistent, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
2011 – 2014 Doctoral fellow, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2010 – 2018 Graduate Student, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
2010 Magister Artium, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
“Borders: Fictions of Globalization and the Margins of the Nation State”
2003 – 2010 Undergraduate Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
English Studies and Drama, Film and Media Studies

Publications and Talks

Publications

“From Global Risk to Private Catastrophe: The Domestic and the Planetary in Daniel Kramb’s From Here and Susannah Waters’ Cold Comfort.” Open Library of Humanities, 4(2):41 (2018): 1–24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.378

“Precautionary Readings.” Ecozon@ 8.2 (2017): 217–221. ecozona.eu/article/view/1588/2075

“Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People”. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires. Eds. Barbara Buchenau & Virginia Richter with Marijke Denger. Amsterdam & New York: Brill, 2015: 371-391.

Talks (recent)

“Flood Fiction, Littoral Communities and the Politics of Environmental Precariousness.” Postcolonial Oceans, Joint Annual Conference of GAPS and IACPL, University of Bremen, 2 June 2019

“Postcolonial Fictions of Science and the Politics of Translation.” BSLS Annual Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 6 April 2019

Full list on uni-oldenburg.academia.edu/KarstenLevihnKutzler

(Changed: 20 Apr 2022)