DEAS Research Seminar | Fridays at 12 | room G31
program for autumn 2025
October 17, 2025
Mirosław Aleksander Miernik (University of Warsaw)
“Literary Responses to Crisis in the 21st century American Novel”
November 7, 2025
Mgr. Dominika Beneš Kováčová, Ph.D. (DEAS FF MU)
“Swiping left for more details: A critical genre analysis of Instagram carousel posts by news organizations”
November 28, 2025
Dr. Johanna Hartmann (University of Halle-Wittenberg)
“Embodiment and the Maintenance of Authoritarianism in Wallace Shawn's Evening at The Talk House“
This course looks at post-postmodernist fictions of the digital (PPFDs). We will begin by discussing what happens after the end of the playful self-reflexivity of postmodernism (including concepts such as “digimodernism,” “metamodernism,” “cosmodernism,” and “post-postmodernism”).