Books

The ZfL publishes research results from its projects in a variety of book formats, primarily as monographs, in the form of anthologies, or as supplements or special issues of scholarly journals. They appear in the ZfL’s series (“Literatur- und Kulturforschung” at Wallstein, “LiteraturForschung” at Kulturverlag Kadmos, until 2017 “Trajekte” at Fink) as well as with other publishers such as Fischer, Suhrkamp, and de Gruyter.

Book cover: Written at the top is “History in Dispute: Essays on the Historicization of Reinhart Koselleck, edited by Falko Schmieder” in German; at the bottom, Reinhart Koselleck leans against a bookshelf with his arms crossed and looking at the camera.
Falko Schmieder (ed./eds.)

Geschichte im Widerstreit
Beiträge zur Historisierung Reinhart Kosellecks

Wert der Vergangenheit vol. 13
Wallstein, Göttingen 2026, 351 pages
ISBN 978-3-8353-6053-2 (Print); 978-3-8353-8165-0 (PDF)
Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco (ed./eds.)

Dualla Misipo: Der Junge aus Duala. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
literatur für leser:innen

Vol. 47, Issue 2
Peter Lang, Berlin 2026, 104 pages
ISSN 0343-1657; eISSN 2364-7183
DOI 10.3726/lfl.2024.02.01
Tobias Wilke

Lautbilder und Maschinenschrift
Modelle digitaler Sprachlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert

Brill Fink, Paderborn 2026, 189 pages
ISBN 978-3-7705-6967-0 (Print); 978-3-8467-6967-6 (E-Book)
Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper (ed./eds.)

The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics
Forum in: International Journal of Maritime History

Vol. 38, Issue 1
SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks 2026, 152 pages
ISSN 0843-8714 (Print); 2052-7756 (Online)
Margarete Vöhringer, Christof Windgätter (ed./eds.)

Glaswelten
Materielle Kultur zwischen Zeigen und Verbergen

Designwissen vol. 4
Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2026, 288 pages
ISBN 978-3-86599-601-5
Christoph Hesse, Klaus Bittermann (ed./eds.)

Umkämpfte Geschichte
Einsprüche gegen die Umdeutung des 7. Oktober

Theorie & Debatte vol. 1
Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2026, 304 pages
ISBN 978-3-89320-335-2
Oliver Precht (ed./eds.)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty als politischer Philosoph
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Vol. 73, Issue 5
De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, 75 pages
ISSN 0012-1045; eISSN: 2192-1482
Hanna Hamel

Der nächste Text
Postdigitale ästhetische Kooperation

Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2025, 222 pages
ISBN 978-3-7518-2098-1
Cover of the academic journal Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 61, Number 3 (July 2025), special issue on the aesthetics and politics of humour in Walter Benjamin.
Kevin Drews, Szilvia Gellai (ed./eds.)

The Opportunities of Laughter: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Humour in Walter Benjamin
Special Issue: Forum for Modern Language Studies

Vol. 61, Issue 3
Oxford University Press, Oxford 2025, 168 pages
ISSN 0015-8518 (Print), 1471-6860 (Online)
Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles (ed./eds.)

The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

CAPONEU Working Papers
2025
Magazine cover of Histoire sociale / Social History showing a passenger ship sinking in the ocean under a pale blue sky.
Nebiha Guiga, Henning Trüper, Aurélien Portelli (ed./eds.)

Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800
Histoire social/Social History

Vol. 58, Issue 119
University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2025, 244 pages
ISSN 0018-2257 (Print); 1918-6576 (Online)
Cover of the James Baldwin Review, Volume 11, Number 1 (2025), featuring an image of James Baldwin’s historical U.S. passport.
Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, Gianna Zocco (ed./eds.)

European Baldwins
James Baldwin Review

Vol. 11, Issue 1
Manchester University Press, Manchester 2025, 305 pages
ISSN 2056-9203 (Print), 2056-9211 (Online)