The ZfL
The ZfL is a humanities institute for literary research in interdisciplinary contexts that draws from a cultural studies framework. Its methods also engage with the structural transformations within historical-hermeneutic subject areas that have taken place in recent decades. In contrast to the study of literature at universities, predominantly organized by nationality, the ZfL fosters a broad concept of literature, but also uses interdisciplinary tools to fundamentally question the etiology of various literary concepts, their potential for the future, and the relationship between literature and other arts or cultural practices. This is done in the three program area History of Theory, World Literature, Knowledge of Life, and in the Focus Projects.
News
Out now: Edited volume by Gwendolin Engels, Claude Haas, Dirk Naguschewski, and Elisa Ronzheimer on literary cars and cars in literature
New in the Audio Collection: Matthias Schwartz and Leandra Bias on masculinities in Eastern Europe (ZOiS podcast)
Out now in open access: Barbara Picht on the “Interpreters of Europe” and the Cold War