PD Dr. Irmtraud Huber

My main fields of research are:

• Aesthetics and Cultures of Time
• Poetry and Poetics
• Epistemology of Forms
• (Symbolic) Infrastructures of Artificial Illumination
• Victorian Literature
• Contemporary Literature

Irmtraud Huber has joined the University of Konstanz in 2022, after holding research and teaching positions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Universität Bern. With funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, she has conducted research at the University of Cambridge, at Queen Mary College, University of London and at Columbia University. In 2013 she was awarded the Helene-Richter-Prize for her doctoral dissertation on literature after postmodernism and in 2022, she received a Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Prize.

• Transfroming Infrastructures. Cultural Perspectives
   
• Form in Dialogue (DFG research network)

The network takes its title ‘Form in Dialogue’ both as a thematic and methodological focus. Over the course of three years (2023-2026), its members will engage in a sustained dialogue about the epistemological, political and pedagogical potential of engaging with aesthetic form. They will also critically experiment with the form of dialogue as collaborative academic practice. The result will be a jointly authored volume publication, which innovatively contributes to the growing interest in new formalist approaches, both with a view to its results and in the dialogic method the participants will develop and employ throughout the process.

• Handbook of Poetic Forms (de Gruyter), edited with Jessica Bundschuh

This Handbook of Poetic Forms aims to offer historically informed approaches to a wide variety of poetic forms. A particular emphasis lies on considering poetic form in dialogue with the cultural context in which it is being used, as well as within the literary tradition of each form.

• Zentrum für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung

List of Publications