People
Dr. Sebastian Meixner (er/ihm)
Current research projects
Since 2025
- Origins of bourgeois laughter in German comedy (working title)
Completed research projects
2018-2025
- Poetics of Abundance: 1750-2000 (Habilitation, since 2021: SNSF Ambizione); Monograph: Überfluss und Ordnung. Eine Stilistik modernen Erzählens (1850-1950) Link
2020-2023
- Kellers Welten. Territorien - Ordnungen - Zirkulationen (Gottfried Kellers Moderne 3)
2018-2023
- (with Carolin Rocks) Gottsched-Handbuch. Leben - Werk - Wirkung (Metzler)
2016-2019
- Ambivalenz in Sprache, Literatur und Kunst
2013-2017
- Narratologie und Epistemologie. Studien zu Goethes frühen Erzählungen (Dissertation)
Research areas
- Literary history from the 18th to the 21st century
- Poetic realism
- The Age of Goethe
- Narratology
- Literary mediology (rhetoric, poetics, aesthetics)
- Literature & economics
