May 22-24 – Conference: Metamorphoses in Contemporary Literature 🗓
Conference
Metamorphoses in Contemporary Literature
May 22-24, 2025
Fakultätssaal, Philosophicum I (Jakob-Welder-Weg 18)
Organized by Berenike Jakob, Carolin Jesussek, and Franziska Rauh
We are delighted to invite you to the conference “Metamorphoses in Contemporary Literature” from May 22-24 at Mainz University.
The conference focuses on the motif of metamorphosis in contemporary literature, with a particular focus on posthumanism, ecocriticism, and (queer) feminism. In addition to paper sessions, the program features a reading and craft talk by Anelise Chen, author and Assistant Professor of Fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts. On Friday, May 23rd at 6:30 p.m., she will read from her forthcoming hybrid memoir, Clam Down.
Those interested are welcome to attend the conference and the reading. The full program can be found on the conference website.
The conference is a collaborative project between the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies and English Literature and Culture at the Department of English and Linguistics, as well as General and Comparative Literature at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media. It is organized by doctoral candidates from the three participating departments: Franziska Rauh (General and Comparative Literature), Berenike Jakob (English Literature and Culture), and Carolin Jesussek (American Studies).
You can contact the organizers at metamorphoses@uni-mainz.de.
You can download the poster for the event here.
