Max Kaplan

Student assistant to the Knowledge transfer and Communications Department

CV

  • August – December 2024 
    Exchange semester at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
  • Since October 2023
    Master in North American Studies with the core disciplines literature and culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
  • October 2018 – September 2023
    Bachelor in General and Comparative Literary Studies and Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin

Research Interests

  • The experientiality of the child’s perspective in literature
  • Contemporary literature
  • North American literature
  • Literary translation

Publications

  • Experiencing the child’s perspectives in contemporary English-language literature: The coalescence of reality and fantasy as an element of experientiality. Berlin: Refubium 2023 (digital publication), http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-41534

Lectures

  • “The (Dis)Order of the Catalog: Embodying the Internal Disturbance of War through the Ordering Mechanism of the Catalog in Sinan Antoon’s ‘The Book of Collateral Damage’”, conference “Schreiben als Un-Ordnen in der Literatur ab dem 20. Jahrhundert,” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8 Oct 2025
  • “(Über)Blühende Fantasien? Exzessives Fantasieren als poetologisches Mittel der erfahrbaren Kindheitsperspektive,” Studierendenkongress der Komparatistik 2024, Freie Universität Berlin, 24 May 2024