About us

The Centre for the Literary Present (ZLG) is an interdisciplinary network situated at the University of Zurich and is dedicated to inquiries into and presentation of literary contemporaneity.

The Centre for the Literary Present (ZLG) is an interdisciplinary network situated at the University of Zurich and is dedicated to inquiries into and presentation of literary contemporaneity.

Its goals are especially

  1. to intensify and dynamise literary scholarship concerned with the literary present,

  2. to assemble and concentrate the manifold engagements with contemporary literature as they already exist, although distributed in the diverse philological sub-disciplines at UZH, and to render them more visible to the public,

  3. to provide UZH's literary scholarship with an additional and powerful channel for national and international networking,

  4. to engage in core debates of contemporary literature together with authors and with other actors of contemporary literary culture (publishers, critics, etc.)

  5. to present the results of its activities with immediacy and in professional fashion to an interested broader audience.

The ZLG's activities thus include research, teaching, and public outreach.

Director

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Philipp Theisohn

Prof. Dr. Philipp Theisohn

Professor of Neue Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft

SOD-2-219, Deutsches Seminar,
Schönberggasse 9, 8001 Zürich

philipp.theisohn@ds.uzh.ch

Managing Director

Portrait of Dr. Sébastien Fanzun

Dr. Sébastien Fanzun

Literary scholar, Comparative Literature

SOD-2-219, Deutsches Seminar,
Schönberggasse 9, 8001 Zürich

sebastien.fanzun@uzh.ch

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher

Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher

Professor of Populäre Literaturen und Medien with special focus on Kinder- und Jugendmedien

christine.loetscher@uzh.ch

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller-Wille

Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller-Wille

Professor of Nordic Philologies

klaus.mueller-wille@ds.uzh.ch

Portrait of Dr. Daniela Tan

Dr. Daniela Tan

Research Assistant in Japanology

daniela.tan@aoi.uzh.ch

Prof. Dr. Ursula Bähler (Romanisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behr (Asien-Orient-Institut)

Prof. Dr. Frauke Berndt (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. em. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen (Englisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Crivelli (Romanisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Bettina Dennerlein (Asien-Orient-Institut)

Prof. Dr. Michael Frank (Englisches Seminar)

Urs Giezendanner, M.A. (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Davide Giuriato (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Tomáš Glanc (Slavisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Heiko Hausendorf (Deutsches Seminar)

PD Dr. Henning Hufnagel (Romanisches Seminar)

Dr. Claudia Keller (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Klinkert (Romanisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Itzíar López Guil (Romanisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Adriana López Labourdette (Romanisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher (Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft)

Prof. Dr. Angelika Malinar (Asien-Orient-Institut)

Salomé Meier, M.A. (Deutsches Seminar)

Dr. Sebastian Meixner (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Daniel Müller Nielaba (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller-Wille (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira (Romanisches Seminar)

Dr. Cornelia Pierstorff (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. em. Dr. Andrea Riemenschnitter (Asien-Orient-Institut)

Prof. Dr. Lena Rohrbach (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Sasse (Slavisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Sabine Schneider (Deutsches Seminar)

Dr. Caroline Ballebye Sørensen (Deutsches Seminar)

Dr. Christoph Steier (Koordinator Doktoratsprogramm «Literaturwissenschaft»)

Prof. Dr. Raji Steineck (Asien-Orient-Institut)

Prof. Dr. Barbara Straumann (Englisches Seminar)

Dr. Daniela Tan (Asien-Orient-Institut)

Prof. Dr. Philipp Theisohn (Deutsches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Rico Valär (Romanisches Seminar)

Prof. Dr. Sandro Zanetti (Romanisches Seminar)

Assoziiertes Mitglied

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hunkeler (Université de Fribourg)

Assoziiertes Mitglied

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zürich)

Assoziiertes Mitglied

Dr. Vera Thomann (Universität Wien)

Assoziiertes Mitglied

Dr. Jessica Imbach (Universität Freiburg)

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter

Prof. Dr. Sandra Richter

Literaturwissenschaftlerin, Direktorin des deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach

Portrait of Nicola Steiner

Nicola Steiner

Kulturjournalistin, Leiterin des Literaturhaus Zürich

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Fritz Gutbrodt

Prof. Dr. Fritz Gutbrodt

Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Mandate in Stiftungs- und Verwaltungsräten

Portrait of Dr. Silvan Lerch

Dr. Silvan Lerch

Kulturjournalist bei SRF, Dokumentarfilmer für 3sat und freier (Buch-)Autor

Portrait of Marc Koralnik

Marc Koralnik

Literaturagent, Inhaber Liepman Literary Agency

Portrait of BA Luana Sarbacher

BA Luana Sarbacher

luana.sarbacher@uzh.ch

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