Writing (for) the Market

Franziska Jekel is a research associate in the Department of German Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her specific research interest is in literary representations of poverty and in the aesthetics of uncertainty.Anna-Katharina Krüger completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich as a member of the DFG Research Training Group Globalization and Literature. Her main teaching and research interests are in (post)colonial literature. Myriam-Naomi Walburg is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focus lies on literary multilinguism, the poetics of translation and Postcolonial Studies.

• Literature’s role as a product of and response to economic phenomena – Literary criticism and representations of economism – Capitalism/financial markets – Poetological reflections on the market – Book history and the field of literary production – Agents of the literary field – The global literary market – Authorship – Identity politics