Dr. Christian Alexander Wollin

Christian
Dr.
Christian
Alexander
Wollin
Buber Fellow: 2019 to 2023

 

Literary Studies
(Literary) Theory
Editionsphilologie
Poetry
Discursive encounters between writing, figurality, and thought

 

Email: Christian.Wollin@mail.huji.ac.il

Current Projects:

My project works towards a poetics of Hannah Arendt’s writing. To that end, it aims to identify the constitutive textual elements and practices of Arendt’s art of writing as well as to chart their dynamic interplay and integration into ever more complex discursive scenarios. Such a comprehensive philological description in turn becomes the reflexive medium for exploring in depth the various modes in which the concepts that emerge from Arendt’s singular space of writing are shaped by its tightly interwoven processes, temporalities, and rhythms of narrativization, figuration, citation, and (inter-)linguation.

Scholarships:

2010-2013                   Doctoral scholarship, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin  

2005-2007                   Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

2003-2004                   One-year scholarship, DAAD, English Studies Programme

Academic work experience

2014-2017       Research assistant, edition project: Hannah Arendt: Complete Works. Critical Edition. Print and Digital. Editors: Anne Eusterschulte, Eva Geulen, Barbara Hahn, Hermann Kappelhoff, Patchen Markell, Anne Vowinckel, and Thomas Wild. Wallstein: Göttingen 2018ff. Philological work on Volume 6: Hannah Arendt: The Modern Challenge to Tradition: Fragmente eines Buchs. Edited by Barbara Hahn and James McFarland. With the support of Ingeborg Nordmann and Ingo Kieslich. Wallstein: Göttingen 2018.

Education

  • 2019 - PhD Dissertation, German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin:
    Early Romantic Paradox: Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt)

  • 2012 - Visiting Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature,Stanford University, Stanford

  • 2010-2013 -  Doctoral candidate, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

  • 2009 - Magister Artium (MA), Freie Universität Berlin

  • 2001-2009 - Master Studies in German Literature and English Philology, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Aberdeen, UK

Publications:

  • "Nach der Kernschmelze der Erinnerung: Valzyhna Morts neue Gedichte 'Musik für die Toten und Auferstandenen'," in: "Die Welt/Literarische Welt," 19.06.2021, p. 29.

  • "Mugged Cup of Black Tea," in: "Recipes under Confinement," edited by Sharon Kivland. London: Ma Bibliothèque 2021, p. 214.

  • "Der 'Mindestabstand' und die 'Aporien des Handelns'. Hannah Arendts 'Vita activa' wiedergelesen" 

  • “Die Nächte der Catherine Pozzi,“ in: Die Wiederholung. Zeitschrift für Literaturkritik, Volume 10 (Heidelberg, June 2020), Edited by Leonard Keidel, Jost Eickmeyer and Alexander Knopf, pp. 5-47.

  • “Einsteinrosarauschen,“ in: The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein. Edited by Dale Holmes and Sharon Kivland. London: Ma Bibliothèque 2019, pp. 147f.

  • “Wenige Liebesnächte, wenige Gedichte, ein All aus Nichts. Über Milo de Angelis' Non é più dato,“ in: Die Wiederholung. Zeitschrift für Literaturkritik, Volume 6 (Heidelberg, May 2018), edited by Jost Eickmeyer and Leonard Keidel, pp. 15-25.

  • “Afterword. The Task of the Sonneteer: Walter Benjamin's Poetry as a Manifold Tradition,” in: Walter Benjamin: Sonnets. Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Carl Skoggard. Foreword by Megan Ewing. Albany, NY: Fence Books 2017, pp. 293-318.

  • “[Benjamin's Stars],” in: The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin. Edited by Helen Clarke and Sharon Kivland. Essays by Helen Clarke, Sam Dolbear, and Christian A. Wollin. London: Ma Bibliothèque 2017, pp. 25-29.

  • "daß je näher man sich mit mir einläßt je mehr wahrheit man von mir hört‘: Rahel Levin Varnhagens epistolare parrhesia mit Karl Gustav von Brinckmann,“ in: Begegnungen mit Rahel Levin Varnhagen. Edited by Barbara Hahn. Göttingen: Wallstein 2015, pp. 45-70.

Presentations:

  • "Sedis animi est in memoria: Hannah Arendt liest," “Mittwochsseminar,“ Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 06/12/2017.

  • "Quotation as Hermeneutical Metaphrasis in Hannah Arendt around 1953," Presentation, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Houston, TX, 16/09/2022.

     

 

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