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 key projects.
News
New episode of “Bücher im Gespräch”: Nadine Menzel and Nina Weller talk about their books on the social situation and (protest) culture in Belarus
Out now in open access: Edited volume on epochal turns and the relevance of historical periodization by Barbara Picht and Henning Trüper
