Jasmin Köhler

Since Oct. 2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Junior Research Group "Cultural Technique of Imagination" at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

April 2024–Sept. 2024: Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin, specializing in Modern German Literature

2018–2024: Dr. phil. in Modern German Literature at Humboldt University of Berlin, within the PhD-Net "The Knowledge of Literature", with the dissertation project "Das Kannibalische. Eine Figur des Wissens vom Eigenen und Anderen um 1920" (summa cum laude)

Oct. 2023–March 2024: Research Associate at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin, Chair of Prof. Ulrike Vedder, specializing in Modern German Literature from the 18th Century to the Present / Theories and Methods of Gender Studies in Literary Studies

Oct. 2021–Sept. 2022: Adjunct Lecturer at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin

Aug. 2019–Feb. 2020: Visiting Scholar at the Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

April 2015–Sept. 2016: Student Research Assistant at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL) with Prof. Sigrid Weigel

2008–2017: Studies in Sociology, Gender Studies, and German Literature at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Humboldt University of Berlin, Bachelor of Arts 2013 (1,1), Master of Arts 2017 (1,0)

Books

Das Kannibalische. Eine liminale Alteritätsfigur um 1920 (= Studien zur Kulturpoetik, Bd. 30). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2025. (forthcoming)External link

Articles

Imaginings of Pacific Foodscapes in Georg Forsterʼs "Voyage Round the World". In: Limbus – Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, Schwerpunkt: Pazifik-Imaginationen / Pacific Imaginings, 18 (2025). (peer reviewed) (forthcoming)

Satire an den Grenzen des guten Geschmacks. "Kannibalisches" von Linke Poot. In: Peter von Möllendorff / Daniel Wendt (Hg.): Aggressive Ästhetik – ästhetische Aggression: Probleme des Satirischen (spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2025. (forthcoming)

Neomalthusianismus im Diskursroman der Weimarer Republik. Zu ungewollter Schwangerschaft in Irmgard Keuns "Gilgi, eine von uns". External linkIn: GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Schwerpunkt: Antinatalismus und Selektion, 1 (2025). S. 27–41. (double-blind peer reviewed)

Was dem "Hungerkünstler" fehlt. Franz Kafkas "[Menschenfresser]"-Fragment.External link In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, Freies Heft, 35/1 (2025), S. 62–72.

Bauschans Blutung. Tierische Pathografie in Thomas Manns "Herr und Hund".pdf, 10 mb · de In: Katrin Bedenig / Hans Wißkirchen (Hg.): Thomas Mann Jahrbuch. Schwerpunkt: Thomas Mann und die Krisen der Moderne, 34 (2021), S. 87–102. (peer reviewed)

Die schöne Leiche in Serie. Arthur Schnitzlers "Die Nächste" [1899].External link In: Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv, Universität Innsbruck, 40 (2021), S. 39–53. (peer reviewed)

Miscellaneous

Tasting Oneself. The Body as Experimental Space in Theresa Schubertʼs Autocannibalistic Performance "mEat me". Interdisciplinary German Studies Graduate Conference "[Selbst]Versuch", University of California, Berkeley, 2025. (in preparation)

Unendlicher Wirrwarr. Taxonomischer Ordnungswahn in Oskar Panizzas "Aus dem Tagebuch eines Hundes".External link In: Blogreihe "Letzte Sätze" des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen, 2025.

Reviews

Review of:External link Samuel Frederick. The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism. Cornell University Press, 2021. In: The German Quarterly, 97.1, winter 2024, S. 121–124.

Review of:External link Jan Bürger, Petra Gehring (Hg.): Feminismus zwischen zwei Kriegen. Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, Bd. 14, H. 4 (2020). In: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, 31/3 (2021), S. 617–620.

Modern German Literature

Poetics of Knowledge

Discourse and Knowledge History of Cannibalism

Gender Studies, Queer Kinship Studies, Food Studies, Dis/ability Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Taxonomic and Ecological Dis/Order in Literature from the 18th Century to the Present

Seminar: "Thomas Mann. Short Texts" (Summer Semester 2024, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Body Techniques in Science Fiction Literature: Reproduction and Dis/ability" (Summer Semester 2024, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Zoopoetics, Text, and Taxonomy"External link (Winter Semester 2023/24, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Cannibalism as Fiction: Narratives of Anthropophagy in Modernity" (Summer Semester 2022, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Seminar: "Animals in Text: Introduction to Literary Animal Studies" (Winter Semester 2021/22, Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin)

Figuren, Typen und Bilder des Sozialen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Praktiken sozialen Imaginierens zwischen Journalismus und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Erfurt, 20–21.11.2025 (Co-Organizer)

The Good Meal: Gender and Nutrition in Transdisciplinary PerspectiveExternal link, Interdisciplinary Conference at Humboldt University of Berlin, 11–12.11.2022 (Co-Organizer)

Diverse Families: Parenthood and Family beyond Heteronormativity and Gender BinaryExternal link, International Conference at Humboldt University of Berlin, 7–8.10.2021 (Co-Organizer)

Since 2024: Member of the German Society for General and Comparative Literature (DGAVL)

Since 2019: Associate Member at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)External link at Humboldt University of Berlin

2018–2024: Member of the binational PhD-Net "The Knowledge of Literature" (HU Berlin, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, NYU, Princeton)

The Poetics of a "Dis/ability to See" in E. T. A. Hoffmannʼs "Des Vetters Eckfester" → Interdisciplinary Conference "Hoffmann 250: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Other Bodies" (16.–17.07.2026), University of Oxford.

Fehldiagnose und "blöder Blick" in Hedwig Dohms Künstlerinnennovelle "Agonie" → International Conference "Hedwig Dohm. Literatur – Theorie – Aktivismus am Fin de Siècle" (18.–20.12.2025), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Georg Forsters literarische Foodscape des Südpazifiks. Zur Verflechtung von ökologischen und kolonialen Perspektiven auf die fremde Landschaft → Young Forum of the Society for Intercultural German Studies (GiG) "Verflechtungsgeschichten. Interkulturelle Ökologien der Literatur" (09.–10.10.2025), University of Flensburg. 

Kadaver im Fluss. Idyllische Gewässererzählung bei Wilhelm Raabe und Thomas Mann → Conference of the International Raabe-Society "Wilhelm Raabes Erzählen: Inszenierung – Dialogizität – Perspektivierung" (13.–14.09.2025), Technical University of Braunschweig.