This week, we warmly welcome our 11th cohort of KWI Fellows, including a KWI International Fellow and a Thyssen@KWI Fellow! Four new researchers will join us for the upcoming six months. Here is some information about their research interests during their time at KWI:
Sophie Duvernoy (KWI International Fellow) received her PhD in German Literature from Yale University in 2023. She is a literary translator and scholar focusing on the literature and aesthetic theory of the Weimar Republic. At KWI Essen, she will work on her first book project, entitled Liberal Forms: Cultural Critique and Reportage in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Liberal Forms examines the nineteenth-century German-Jewish tradition of cultural analysis to demonstrate how this intellectual tradition gave rise to the aesthetic strategies of the feuilleton in the Weimar Republic.
Andrew Fisher (KWI Fellow) is a founding editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Philosophy of Photography (2010-present). He was a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths in London, and most recently a Research Fellow at FAMU, the Department of Photography of the Academy of Arts in Prague. Andrew’s work at KWI will trace continuities and breaks in photographic concepts and practices of sequence to understand the transformation of photography since the late 20th century.
Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto (Thyssen@KWI Fellow) holds a position as Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. As a film and media historian, she researches transnational cinema and television, feminist film histories, and documentary. As a Thyssen@KWI Fellow, she will be working on a book titled Unruly Bedfellows: Latin American Filmmakers and European Public Television. This book examines the history of the cultural, aesthetic, political, and institutional exchanges between European public television and Latin American filmmakers during the 1970s and early 1990s.
Jörg Später (Fellow in the Heisenberg Project “Krise der Kritik?“) is an independent author associated with the Research Group on Contemporary History at the Historical Seminar of the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg. Since the beginning of this year, Später has been working on a new research project titled The Beckers: A Politically and Intellectually Aristocratic Family in 20th-Century Germany. At KWI Essen, he will be part of the Heisenberg Project „Krise der Kritik?“ which examines a crisis of critique of capitalism during the 1980s and 1990s.
We warmly encourage collaborations between our guest researchers and members of the UA Ruhr. If you are interested in connecting with our fellows or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Dr Ricarda Menn at ricarda.menn@kwi-nrw.de. More detailed information about the researchers, including their research interests, pictures, and CVs, can be found on the KWI homepage.
