This event is open to the community, and we invite participants as a prompt to discussion to read the Prof. Tischleder’s introduction to the recent collection she co-edited: “Multispecies Chronotopes: Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human,” from An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human-World. Please contact Jamie L. Jones (jaljones@illinois.edu) if you would like a copy.
Babette B. Tischleder is a tenured professor of North American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany (since 2010). Her books include The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (2014) and the coedited volumes Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015) and An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World (2019). Her research has focused on the questions of materiality, obsolescence, and the agency of the nonhuman—from cherished objects and animated robots to the life of garbage and the truculence of rivers. Her work is concerned with the ways that critical and creative practices may tackle the ecological troubles and endangered futures in our multispecies world.
Her current book project, Chronotopes of the Nonhuman, asks how—through narrative, poetry, and visual art—we can imagine forms of being-in-the-world that challenge established human epistemologies and take into view our entanglements with nonhuman lives.
She will be an IFUSS Visiting Scholar from September, 22nd to October, 1st 2019