Life Writing in Early American Periodicals
DFG Funded Research Project “Life Writing im Spiegel der frühen amerikanischen Zeitschriftenliteratur 1790-1830″ (SCHE1616-4-1; Funding 11/2010-10/2013)
Director: Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Current literary research frequently stresses research on biographical forms. The term “life writing,” especially in Anglo-American scholarship, has obtained wide acceptance and includes all biographical forms and formats. While more recent research has more intensively focused on contemporary life descriptions, and occasionally discussed 19th century collective biographies, a systematic inquiry into the diverse forms of biography in Early American periodicals, one of the central loci of biographical communications, is lacking, despite its relevance for, among other things, the nationalism debates of the Early Republic. The project at Mainz University focuses on this research field. In combination with periodical research, a topic of growing interest to current scholarship, the project intends to give added weight to the central role of the biographical discourse in the Early Republic periodicals than has hitherto happened.
Project Publication
Further informationE-text project: American Lives
Research Projects and Programs
DFG Research Projects:
- Between Authenticity and the Market
- Biopolitics and Native American Life Writing
- Body and Metaphor in Medical Humanities
- Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies
- Early American Short Narratives
- Life Writing in Early American Periodical
- Pedagogical Writing and Social Practice in the Age of American Romanticism
- Un/doing Differences. Praktiken der Humandifferenzierung
Further Projects:
- Early American Studies at Mainz
- Center for Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies
- DGF Research Training Group “Life Sciences – Life Writing”
- Political and Intellectual History
- Religion and American Culture
- Center for Social and Cultural Studies (SOCUM)
- Material Culture Studies at Mainz
- Historische Kulturwissenschaften Uni Mainz