DAAD Chair in Contemporary Poetics

Past DAAD Chairs

Spring 2020

Ann Cotten

Topics in Modern German Literature and Poetics: What’s so political about formally innovative poetry? 

Mondays, 3:30 - 6:10pm, January 27- March 16th.

Taught in English

Spring 2019

Esther Dischereit
Topics in Modern German Literature: Fiction and Testimony: The Past in the Present

Taught in English

Spring 2018

Clemens Meyer
Topics in 20th Century German Culture: Auf der Suche nach der deutschen Moderne

Taught in English

Spring 2017

Katja Petrowskaja

Poetics & Theory Seminar: The Poetics of Memory

Taught in English

Spring 2016

Ilija Trojanow
Poetics & Theory Seminar: The Poetics and Politics of Walking

Taught in English

spring 2015

Yoko Tawada
Poetics & Theory Seminar: Wie denken Tiere?

Taught in German

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spring 2014

Emine Sevgi Oezdamar
Poetics & Theory Seminar: Auto Fiction: Writing the Self

Taught in German