Marlene Meuer (CCL Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, 2022-23)

Marlene Meuer, Postdoctoral Research Visitor at the CCL, 2022-23, is a German comparative literature and cultural studies scholar with a strong focus on the history of ideas and philosophy of arts, currently working on a book about postdigital language art. 

After having completed her Ph.D. thesis on ‘Polarisations of Antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment’ (“Polarisierungen der Antike’, published in 2017), Marlene wrote a second book on the ‘Laura’ cycle in Schiller’s ‘Anthology of the Year 1782’ (Der ‘Laura’-Zyklus in Schillers ‘Anthologie auf das Jahr 1782, published in 2018) and completed teaching and research stays in Weimar (DE), Freiburg (DE), Eichstätt (DE), Aberdeen, Catania (IT), Marbach (DE), Konstanz (DE), Lüneburg (DE) and Prague (CZ).

She is a member of the Young Academy at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (“Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz”).

During her visit at the CCL, she explores what kinds of postdigital language art were developed in the UK in the last decade.