Literature knows a lot about attention – how it is gained and retained, how it is mastered and manipulated. As such it can contribute significantly to current research in interdisciplinary attention studies and offer insight into attention regimes we live by. LitAttention explores this fundamentally under-researched knowledge domain of literature about attention and attention politics by analysing ‘literary attention’ in short fiction.
The project is funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (LitAttention, 101141722) hosted at the University of Stuttgart.
We’re delighted to advertise an opportunity to join the LitAttention team as a postdoctoral researcher! Join our ERC-funded research project LitAttention — What Short Fiction Knows About Attention and Attention Politics as a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Educational Psychology. Based at the University of Stuttgart and collaborating closely with the University of Tübingen and the Leibniz-Institut für…
For our Summer Semester LitAttention Colloquium, Marion Thain will be joining us on the 2nd of July. See below for her bio and the abstract for her talk. Attention Studies: Configuring a New ‘Interdisciplinary Discipline’ Abstract Distraction is experienced as one of the key challenges of our time. Digital distractions have been blamed for everything…
Access the lecture here. Also accessible at this address: https://unistuttgart.webex.com/meet/hannah.armour For our Summer Semester LitAttention Colloquium, Yves Citton will be joining us on the 18th of June. See below for his bio and the abstract for his talk. From Narrative Attention to Anthropological Curiosity: Jan Potocki’s Manuscript found in Saragossa (1815) Bio Yves Citton is professor in Literature and…
