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Dr Benjamin Schaper

Stipendiary Lecturer in German

Academic Background:  MSt and DPhil (Oxon), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching: Undergraduate: Papers II, III, IV and VIII

Research Interests: My Postdoc-project researches loneliness in the context of human-machine interaction from Romanticism to the Digital Age. I am also working on female literary networks in the contemporary German literary scene.

Selected Publications:

Benjamin Schaper: Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit in der deutschen Literatur. Heidelberg: Winter 2017.

Benjamin Schaper: Daniel trinkt Apfelsaft. Kehlmann als Figur. In: Fabian Lampart et al. (Eds.): Daniel  Kehlmann  und  die  Gegenwartsliteratur. Dialogische Poetik, Werkpolitik und Populäres Schreiben. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2020 (In Print).

Benjamin Schaper: Der weltweit bekannteste Schriftsteller deutscher Literaturtradition”. The reception of Jonathan Franzen in Germany. In: The Modern Language Review, Vol. 114/2 (2019), pp. 294-315.

Position
Stipendiary Lecturer in German
Subject
Modern Languages
Department
Academic - Fellows & Lecturers