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Dr. Florian Scherübl

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Research Associate (as of September 1, 2026)

Dr. Florian Scherübl

Walter Benjamin Research Fellowship (DFG)

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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies

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TUD Dresden University of Technology Faculty SLK
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Academic Career

Starting 09/2026	TU Dresden	Research Associate at the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch) – Walter Benjamin Center (DFG)
03/2025–08/26	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg	Research Associate at the Institute of German Studies (Comparative Literature)
09/2022–03/2025	TU Dresden	freelance lecturer
September 2022–May 2023	Bard College Berlin	freelance lecturer
April 2022–August 2022	TU Dresden	Research Associate (parental leave replacement) at the Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures (Prof. Dr. Lars Koch)
08/2018–01/2019	New York University	Visiting Scholar
09/2017–12/2021	Humboldt University of Berlin	Ph.D. in the PhD-Net “The Knowledge of Literature” on the topic of “The Dissolution of Worlds: Unstable Narrative Worlds in German and French Literature (1945–1965); ” (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl and Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer)
May 2016–May 2017	Ruhr University Bochum	Doctoral preparatory fellowship from the Ad Infinitum Foundation
Oct 2012–Mar 2016	Humboldt University of Berlin	M.A. in German Literature; (thesis: “Poetological Reflection in Heinrich Heine’s ‘Jehuda Ben Halevy’”)
April 2012–September 2012	University of Bielefeld	Enrollment in an M.A. program in Literary Studies
Oct. 2008–Sept. 2011	University of Regensburg	B.A. with majors in German Studies (1st) and Philosophy (2nd): (Thesis on Michel Foucault: From the Language of Madness to Counter-Discourse)
September 2007–September 2008	KKH Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg	Civilian Service
06/2007	Parsberg High School, Neumarkt/Upper Palatinate District	High School Diploma

Publications

Monograph (in preparation)

Worlds in Disarray: Studies on Unstable Narrative Worlds in German and French Literature (1945–1965), Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden 2023.

Reviews in:
Fabula 65.1-2 (2024), pp. 208–212)
Comparative Literature ( 2025), pp. 258–262)

On Gilles Deleuze’s *The Logic of Sense*, Turia+Kant : Vienna–Berlin 2025.

Edited by

(with Lars Koch and Julia Prager), *Language Escapes: Grammar, Literature, and Politics in Contemporary Literature* ( Metzler: Stuttgart, forthcoming 2027)
Politics as Style, Style as Politics. Synergy Effects between the Vormärz and the Weimar Republic ( =Special Issue of Weimarer Beiträge 72.2 [to be published in late 2026])
Farewells to Postmodernism? Recent Historicizations of “Theory” between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, transcript: Bielefeld 2022.

Essays

The Jewish Synthesis. Salomon Munk, Ibn Gabirol, and Heinrich Heine’s “Old Materialism,” in : DVjs (accepted, to be published in late 2026)
Between “National Style” and “Language Norm.” Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Dialogue with Karl Vossler’s Linguistics in *Das Schrifttum als geistiger Raum der Nation* (1927), in : *Euphorion* 120 .2 (2026), pp. 213–237.
Spirit or Life. Ludolf Wienbarg and the Spirit, Life, Action Complex in the Stylistic Discourse of “Young Germany,” in: Weimarer Beiträge 72.2 (in preparation)
Fashion Novels. August Heinrich Lafontaine in August Wilhelm Schlegel’s Criticism, or the Self-Assertion of Early Romanticism through the Negation of Sentimentalism, in: Weimarer Beiträge 72.1 (2026) (in preparation)
Pre-Iconic Elements. Media, Myths, and George: Thomas Mann’s Lectures on Lessing (1929), in : Weimarer Beiträge 71.1 (2025), pp. 27–49.
(De-)Framing in the Epitext. Contexts and Post-Paratextual Functions of “Dits” in the Collection of Materials, in: Michael Gamper/Wolfgang Hottner (eds.), Paratexts of Theory, Berlin UP 2025, pp. 265–299.
Realism as the World. The World-Theoretical Prehistory of the Modern Realist Novel and Thomas Mann’s Addendum to It, in: Jan Hurta/Michael Navratil/Maike Neumann (eds.), Realistic Modernity—Modernist Realism. The Relationship Between Method and Epoch (Not Only) in Thomas Mann, Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach 2025, pp. 111–133.
“How to Do Things Differently with Worlds,” in *Poetica* 55 (2024), pp. 275–293.
In Praise of Women and the Death of Men: Displacements in Troubadour Poetry in Stefan George’s “Book of Legends and Songs,” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 4/2024, pp. 529–550.
Intensity as a Form of Knowledge and Life. On the Relationship Between Aphorisms, Poetry, and Criticism in the Work of Gerhard Falkner, in : *Weimarer Beiträge* 70.1 (2024), pp. 102–124.
The Image and the Voice. Giorgio Agamben as a Reader of Averroes, * * 4/2023, pp. 68–95.
The Spectrum of the Spectral. Ghosts in the Humanities, in : Michael Eggers/Adrian Robanus (eds.), Topics of Theory. On the Rhetorical Structure of Theory After Its Proclaimed End, Berlin 2023, pp. 215–226.
Inscriptions. The Scientific Constitution of the Object as an Ethical Act in Jacques Derrida and Karen Barad, in : Martin Bartelmus (ed.), Writing and Writtenness: Activity, Agency, and Actants of Writing, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 127–144.
Postmodernism, Poststructuralism… Panfictionalism!?! Problems of Classifying “Theory” Using the Example of a Concept from Narratology and Fictionality Theory, in : Florian Scherübl (ed.), Farewells to “Postmodernism.” Recent Historicizations between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 125–148.
Farewells to “Postmodernism.” Introduction, in : Florian Scherübl (ed.), Farewells to “Postmodernism.” Recent Historicizations between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, Bielefeld 2022, pp. 7–18.
Lyrics? Poetry? Transmedia Structures as the Horizon of Meaning Production in Pop, in : Uwe Schütte (ed.), German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedia Perspectives, Oxford/New York 2021, pp. 117–134.
“Deterritorialized Travels: Notes on World, Earth, and Literature in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari,” in *Transit* 13.1 (2021), pp. 182–193.
Territories, Worlds, Earth. Deleuze and Guattari’s *What Is Philosophy? * as a Farewell to Heidegger’s *The Origin of the Work of Art*, in: *Weimarer e Beiträge* 66.3 (2020), pp. 441–460.
“Nietzsche as a Pragmatist: Traces of William James in Gilles Deleuze’s Interpretation of Nietzsche, ” in: * **Nietzsche Research*27 (2020), pp. 323–343.
The Museum of Inability. The Museality of Everyday Life in Georges Perec’s *Les choses*, in : Ulrike Vedder/Johanna Stapelfeld/Klaus Wiehl (eds.), *Museales Erzählen*, Paderborn 2020, pp. 55–73.
Eduard Gans’s Hegelianism and the Verein für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Judentums: A Reconsideration of a Constellation Concerning Heinrich Heine’s Relationship to Hegel, in : Revista Electrônica Estudos Hegelianos 16 (2019), pp. 123–147.
Missed Opportunities: Umberto Eco’s Textual Pragmatism and the Unresolved Problems of the Possible Worlds Theory of Literature, in : Scientia Poetica. Yearbook for History of Literature and Sciences 22 (2018), pp. 128–150.
“Haunted by Ghosts”: The Function and Significance of the Spirit and Ghostly Beings in Heinrich Heine’s Writings of the 1830s, in: Roland Schiffter/Sabine Bierwirth (eds.), Heinrich Heine—Miscellaneous Writings from Berlin, Berlin 2018, pp. 181–217.
The (All)Generalized World of Signs: Perspectivism and Comprehensibility in FW 354 and “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense,” in: * Nietzsche ResearchYearbook* 25 (2018), pp. 272–282.
The Image of Nietzsche in Reference Works on the Conservative Revolution and Among Its Critics, in : Andreas Urs Sommer and Sebastian Kaufmann (eds.), Nietzsche and the Conservative Revolution, Berlin/Boston 2018, pp. 577–597.
Heinrich Heine and Michael Sachs: “The Relationship Between Haggadah and Halakha in ‘Jehuda ben Halevy’ Against the Background of Heine’s Source ‘The Religious Poetry of the Jews in Spain,’” in : Heine-Jahrbuch 55 (2016), pp. 16–27.
In the Painter’s Focus, in the Light of History, in: Robert Eberhardt (ed.), Anton Graff: Portraits of a Portraitist, Berlin 2013, pp. 161–164.

Reviews

Ingo Stöckmann, “The Quest for Form: Rudolf Borchardt’s Forms,” in : Weimarer Beiträge 72.2 (to be published in late 2026).
Wolfgang Engemann, The Future of Reading, in : Weimarer Beiträge 72.1 (to be published in late 2026).
Alexander Schnell, “Deleuze and Phenomenology: An Interpretation of *Logic of Sense*,” in : *Weimarer Beiträge* 71.4 (2026).
The Trail of the Empty Center ( Review of: Till Greite, *Die leere Zentrale. Berlin – Ein Bild im deutschen Nachkrieg*), in: *Zeitschrift für Germanistik* 1/2026 .
The Logic of Narrated Worlds ( Review of: Cornelia Pierstorff, *Ontological Narratology: Telling the World According to Wilhelm Raabe*), in : *DIEGESIS* 2/2024.
Esther von der Osten/Caroline Sauter (eds.), What Is a “Relevant” Translation? Working with Derrida, in : Weimarer Beiträge 69.3 (2023).
Marie-Luise Goldmann/Anna Hordych (eds.), *Unavailable. The Joy of Not Responding*, Berlin 2023, in: *Komparatistik. Jahrbuch* der deutschen Gesellschaft für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2023.

Journalism

The Unconscious of Language. Free Indirect Speech and the Rhetoric of “Populism” ( https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-unbewusste-der-sprache/; September 18, 2024)
Crisis of Narrative? On Stories About the End of the “Narrative Turn,” in : Geschichte der Gegenwart (https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/krise-der-erzaehlung-ueber-geschichten-vom-ende-der-narrativen-wende/; June 18, 2023)

Translations (Books)

Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romanticism, Wolff : Berlin 2018.
Sarah Kofman, Nietzsche and the Metaphor, Wolff: Berlin 2014.
Ernst Jünger, *Conversations in the World State*, ed . by Thomas Petraschka and Rainer Barbey, Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart 2019 (anthology of French-language interviews with Ernst Jünger; partial translation).

Event Organization

Interdisciplinary Conference Theory|Religion(s). Religion in Theory and the History of Theory: Between Reconnection and Re-Reading, October 8–9, 2026, MLU Halle/Wittenberg.
Interdisciplinary Workshop (German Studies/Theology) “Organ of the New Age” The Hallische Jahrbücher (1838–1844) and the Revolution of Criticism, April 16–17, 2026, MLU Halle/Wittenberg.
Workshop: Style as Politics, Politics as Style: Synergies Between Two Concepts from the Vormärz to the Weimar Republic, January 22–23, 2026, MLU Halle/Wittenberg.
Summer School on Literature and Religion: Critique of Religion, September 11–12, 2025, MLU Halle/Wittenberg.
Workshop “Fleeing Languages: Grammar—Literature—Politics, ” March 6– 7, 2025, TUD Dresden University of Technology.
Workshop: Farewells to Postmodernism? New Historicizations of “Theory” between Post-Truth Narratives and Generational History, April 30 , 2021, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Lectures

October 2026	Conference : “The Disciplined Reader: Michel Foucault and the Poetics of Discourse,” Goethe University Frankfurt am Main	Foucault’s “Archaeology of Knowledge”—an “ontology” of discursive events?
10/2026	Workshop: Theory \| Religion(s). Religion in Theory and the History of Theory Between Reconnection and Reinterpretation, MLU Halle-Wittenberg	Political Theology of Language: Personality, Thought, and Guilt(s) in “Italian Theory”
07/2026	Conference: “Problematized Popularity.” Caroline Wahl’s Literature, SFB 1472, University of Siegen	No Book Prize for You! Popularity and Claims to Authority in the Face of Consecrating Power (Using the Examples of Caroline Wahl and Clemens Meyer)
06/2026	Goethe Society, Halle (Saale)	The Jewish Synthesis: The Haunting Presence of Judaism in Heinrich Heine’s Work
04/2026	Workshop “Organ of the New Age.” The Hallische Jahrbücher (1838–1844) and the Revolution of Criticism, MLU Halle-Wittenberg	The Transformation of Literary Criticism into Critical Criticism in the Hallische Jahrbücher
03/2026	Conference “But Everyone Thinks of It.” Jewish Authorship and Censorship in the First Half of the 19th Century, LMU Munich	Esoteric Jews? The Publications of the Berlin Society for Jewish Culture and Science (1818–1824): An Example of the Formation of “Jewish Writing Styles” in the 19th Century
01/2026	Workshop “Style as Politics, Politics as Style,” MLU Halle/Wittenberg	Style and Politics. Synergies Between the Vormärz and the Weimar Republic. A Search for Traces
01/2026	Workshop: The Novel and World Literature. Rereading August Lafontaine, MLU Halle/Wittenberg	Fashion Novels? August Lafontaine in Romantic Criticism
03/2025	Workshop: Fading Languages, TU Dresden	Fleeing Languages: Grammar, Literature, Politics
11/2023	Conference: Realistic Modernism – Modernist Realism, University of Münster	Realism as a World: The World-Theoretical Prehistory of the Modernist Realist Novel
July 2023	Workshop on Political Theology, University of Halle/Saale	Heinrich Heine’s Political Theology
June 2021	Workshop on Writing: Activity, Agency, Actants, HHU Düsseldorf	Enrollments: The Scientific Constitution of Objects as an Ethical Act in the Work of J. Derrida and Karen Barad
March 2021	Workshop : Bourdieu in German Studies, University of Oldenburg/University of Osnabrück	Contemporary Literary Studies and Field Analysis: Mapping the Recent Literary Field with Bourdieu
02/2021	29th Annual Berkeley Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, UC Berkeley, California	Deterritorialized Travellers. Notes on the Intersection of World, Earth, Literature, and Traveling in Deleuze and Guattari’s Theory of Literature
06/2019	Conference on German Pop Music in a Transmedial Perspective, Aston University, Birmingham	Lyrics…? Poetry…? A Functionalist Analysis of Music Lyrics (with Special Focus on German Pop)
09/2018	Workshop “Authority and Expertise,” Cornell University, Ithaca	Heine and the Authority of Hegel
01/2018	Berlin Chapter of the Heinrich Heine Society, Berlin	Spirit and Spiritual Beings in Heine’s Religion and Philosophy
December 2017	Nietzsche Colloquium, TU Berlin	Nietzsche as a Pragmatist: On the Pragmatist Dimension of Gilles Deleuze’s Interpretation of Nietzsche
09/2017	Perspectives on Perspectivism, Workshop of the Nietzsche Society, Naumburg/Schulpforta	Perspectivism, Comprehensibility, and the Death of God in Nietzsche
May 2017	Holy Shit. Forms of Transference of the Sacred in 20th- and 21st-Century Art and Culture, Workshop , University of Cologne	On the Free Use of the Sacred: Giorgio Agamben’s Alternative to the “Ambivalence of the Sacred”
June 2016	Conference : Nietzsche and the “Conservative Revolution,” Wieland-Gut Oßmannstedt	The Transformation of the Image of Nietzsche in Handbook Literature on the “Conservative Revolution”
12/2015	Forum for Young Heine Research, Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf	“For God’s Sake….” Soul, Stars, Hegel. The Continuity of Heine’s Engagement with the Theological Consequences of Hegelian Philosophy
08/2015	Summer School of the Guardini Foundation, Casa Valdese, Rome	Martin Luther in the Works of Heinrich Heine
09/2013	Student Conference : Perspectives Beyond Postmodernism, Free University of Berlin	“Contre St. Hegel”: Foucault’s Way Out of German Idealism
May 2013	4th Student Congress on Comparative Literature, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main	Literature, “Empty Speech”
August 2012	Annual Conference of the Eichendorff Forum, Goethe House, Frankfurt am Main	Eichendorff and Capital

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