Literary Attention in Short Fiction, or: What Literature Knows About Attention and Attention Politics

The project is funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (LitAttention, 101141722)

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.

Team



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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 (SP 2).




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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 (SP 1). 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.
 


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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.

 

Events

LitAttention will organise a series of events, including (online) transdiciplinary attention colloquia and workshops. Watch this space for announcements!

Join the LitAttention team!

There are currently no open positions. External researchers who would like to join the research team with own funding, please contact the PI.

News

Kurzgeschichten für mehr Aufmerksamkeit, Universität Stuttgart (11. April 2024, Nr. 11)


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