LitAttention hat nun eine eigene Website!
Besuchen Sie uns unter https://litattention.eu/
für alles rund um unser Projekt.
Projektbeschreibung
Literatur weiß viel über Aufmerksamkeit – wie sie gewonnen und erhalten wird, wie sie reguliert und manipuliert werden kann. Als solche kann die Literatur einen wichtigen Beitrag zu aktuellen Ansätzen im Bereich der interdisziplinären Aufmerksamkeitsforschung leisten und Einblicke in die Aufmerksamkeitsregime bieten, in denen wir leben. LitAttention untersucht dieses Wissen der Literatur über Aufmerksamkeit und Aufmerksamkeitspolitik, indem es ‚literarische Aufmerksamkeit‘ in Kurzprosa analysiert.
LitAttention verbindet Methoden aus der (pädagogischen) Psychologie, der Computerlinguistik, den Digital Humanities und den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, um die Poetik und Politik der Aufmerksamkeit in Kurzprosa zu erforschen, Parameter für die Analyse von ‚literary attention‘ zu entwickeln und die wichtige Rolle literarischer Aufmerksamkeit für den Bereich der Bildung zu verdeutlichen.
Um auf dem neuesten Stand mit dem Projekt zu bleiben besuchen Sie die Webseite des Projektes hier: https://litattention.eu/
Meet the LitAttention Team:
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach (Project Leader)
Sibylle Baumbach is professor of English literatures and cultures. LitAttention builds on her previous research on literature, attention, and fascination as well as on her expertise in literary theory and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is Principal Investigator of LitAttention and focuses on developments of the short story as attention narrative.
Dr. Christy J. Gu (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Christy J. Gu focuses on identifying stylistic devices in short fiction that are related to attention manipulation and using empirical methods to examine their potential effects. Additionally, she explores how and to what extent these identified patterns may influence attention from the perspective of educational psychology.
Hannah Armour (Doctoral Researcher)
Hannah Armour is a PhD student with a Masters from the University of Oxford and a BA from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her PhD thesis, looking at the relationship between the role of attention and the rise of short fiction between 1800 and 1880, will form part of the LitAttention project. Her research examines the methods by which short fiction forms cater themselves to changing attention economies and environments, especially regarding the emergence of genres such as those that centralise discussions of the educational, psychological, detective and gothic.
Jan Angermeier (Doctoral Researcher)
Jan Angermeier is a PhD student at the University of Stuttgart, with a Master of Arts in Digital Humanities and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science. His PhD thesis, focusing on computational modelling of attention-related literary phenomena in short fiction, constitutes part of the LitAttention project. His research examines how short fiction adapts to changing attention economies and environments, particularly through the use of syntactic, semantic, and narrative strategies that elicit attention. Jan Angermeier's work involves developing methodological frameworks and utilising machine learning models to analyse literary attention devices, contributing to the interdisciplinary field of attention studies.
Reem Chehab (Doctoral Researcher)
Reem Chehab is a PhD student at the University of Stuttgart with a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Her PhD thesis, which forms part of the LitAttention project, examines how microfiction across print and digital media affords attentional engagement under contemporary conditions of digital circulation.
Aurora Angione (Student Research Assistant)
Aurora Angione is an MA student of English and American Studies at the University of Stuttgart and a research assistant in the LitAttention project. Her interest in Anglophone literature began in high school and continued during her BA in Modern Languages and Civilisations at the University of Padua, Italy. Her current research interests revolve around themes of embodiment and posthuman feminist theory in sci-fi fiction, and she also has a strong interest in Gothic and horror fiction.
Max Schmid (Student Research Assistant)
Max Schmid is a Masters student at the University of Stuttgart, where he has also completed his Bachelor of Arts in English Literatures & Linguistics. His BA thesis dealt with Applications of Structure Removal in Minimalist Syntax of English and German. In English Literatures, Max Schmid is interested in formalist analyses of fragmentation in (Post-)Modernist poetry and prose as well as renditions of Apocalypse in the attention regimes of contemporary speculative fiction.
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