Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective

Doing Literature in a Global Perspective

The Cluster of Excellence 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" aims to create a new theoretical and methodological take on literature in a global perspective that moves beyond the categories of nation and period and conceives of literature instead as a transcultural and transtemporal phenomenon in deep time. Based on the insight that literature is a fundamentally performative and intermedial phenomenon, a form of social action taking place in complex networks of human and non-human actors, the Cluster studies how literature becomes global through its temporal entanglements. Introducing the notion of 'temporal communities', the Cluster investigates the ways in which literature reaches out through space and time and establishes extensive transtemporal networks in which the notion of literature itself is constantly re-constituted as it interacts with other arts and media.

• Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte, Professor of the History of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, Freie Universität Berlin

Projekte in Forschungsverbünden

• Ekphrasis: Literarizität und Tradition in der englischen Literatur des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, Unterprojekt im Rahmen der DFG-Forschergruppe 606 Topik und Tradition. Prozesse der Neuordnung von Wissensüberlieferungen des 13. bis 17. Jahrhunderts (Johnston / Rouse)

Dissertations

Ongoing dissertations

Habilitations

Ongoing habilitations